ROUND 9: Miscellaneous - 3-Digit Numbers

All answers are 3-digit numbers.

 1. Provincial highways in Ontario are classified into King's,
    secondary, and tertiary highways.  What is the highest King's
    highway number?

	427

 2. On the TTC, what is the highest route number operating today,
    within 3?
 
	512 (accept 509 - 515) (it's the St. Clair streetcar)

 3. A movie in 2000 told a fictional World War II story of Americans
    stealing a German U-boat.  What was its U-number, within 10?

	571 (accept 561 - 581)

 4. According to Boeing, this model of airliner is the most successful
    in history.  On average there are a thousand of them in the air
    at any time.

	737

 5. The hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran began in 1979
    and lasted to the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency.  How many days
    was it, within 10?

	444 (accept 434 - 454)

 6. In computers, how many distinct values can a standard 8-bit byte
    represent?

	256

 7. How many pounds are there in a long hundredweight (that is, the 
    British hundredweight)?

	112

 8. According to the novel by Ray Bradbury, what is the ignition
    temperature of book paper in degrees Fahrenheit?

	451

 9. In 2001 this became the newest telephone area code to be partly
    within our local calling region, when it was overlaid on area code
    905.  Name the new code.

	289
	(not 647, which was overlaid on 416)

10. In most of the US and Canada we have 911, but what is the common
    emergency phone number now adopted by most European countries?
    Hint: this answer has already come up once in this round.

	112