Not a bad lead, but I don’t think so. I searched the King James version for verses containing the word “forty” and the letteer q, but none of the three results matches the clue.
By the way, there are only 35 different words in the KJV starting with Q, http://www.usaquality.com/bible/allwords/q.html
Hope this is right.
20 M T in C = 20 milk teeth in children.
don’t ask,
I haven’t got anything better, so I’ll go with you.
Shirley and bibliophage,
greater love hath no man, than he shall search the entire Bible for a possible quiz answer!
Kudos and a ‘Well Damn’ !to don’t ask:
"Every person goes through two types of dentition in his lifetime - the primary dentition (milk teeth) and the permanent dentition.
The primary dentition comprises of 20 teeth. A child starts getting his first milk tooth at the age of 6 months .Most children have their full set of 20 primary teeth by the time they are 3 years old."
The stuff you don’t know !!
I guess it looks like only **40 Q in F ** is left ?..just can’t get it, sorry
glee, is your colleague going to get the answers or is it something we might never know for sure?
Personally I’m partial to the French answer, but it seems too easy comparatively.
Hoping we do get the answers. It’s bothering me enough that I’ve come up with lots of wrong answers :
40 quarks in Fluorine (not really, it’s more like 60-something)
40 quadriceps in football (if you, uh, leave out the goalkeepers)
40 quarto in folio (this hardly even makes sense)
40 quatrains in … [some poem beginning with ‘F’] (probably not, since the other literary & musical works were attributed)
40 quasars in Fornax (a faint constellation in the Northern Hemisphere)
40 quartans in four [months] (a quartan being a fever that recurs every four days inclusive)
40 quavers in five [measures of music] (of standard 4/4 time)
40 quid in Frank’s [wallet] (hey, it could be)
I’m sure she’ll get the answers. (It’s probably all for charity).
When she does, I’ll post 'em!