Summer Riddles – Results

Many of you have entered our Summer Riddles contest. We will contact the 10 best scores and they will receive an “out of the box” gift as well as TOBAM’s 10-year book.

Below you will find the answers to the contest riddles. We will also release on our website the full list of answers to the page number riddles included in the 10-year book!

Congratulations to all participants,

• Platinum = 78 (Platinum atomic number)

• First missing hour in a day = 25 (24h in a day)

• French Blood = 100 (from “cent” in French versus “sang” for blood)

• Left-hand column bottom up = 147 (by looking at a keyboard)

• Number of employees at TOBAM as at 31/12/2015 = 41

• 100 more steps than Hitchcock’s = 139 (from 39 steps, famous Hitchcock movie)

• ZX = 81 (from the 1980’s computer)

• First prime number sum of three consecutive prime numbers = 23

• The Power Of Love = 85 (year when the song reached #1 in the Charts)

• Don’t Leave Me This Way = 86 (year when the song reached #1 in the Charts)

• Pump Up The Volume = 87 (year when the song reached #1 in the Charts)

• Card ({Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey}) = 7 (from Snow White and the 7 dwarfs)

• Number of countries in the EU as at 31/12/2015 = 28

• (Septante six + soixante seize ) / 2 = 76 (septante six & soixante seize are two ways to say 76 in French)

• Number of parts in a hair after a tetrapyloctomy is performed = 4 (tetrapyloctomy is the art of splitting hair four ways)