Dara's Everyday Maths Whiz Quiz

Question 1 of 20: A nice easy one to start. You're in the newsagent buying a choccy bar (65p), a can of pop (75p) and your favourite Stamp Collecting Monthly (£4.85). What's your change from a tenner?

£3.75
£3.25
£2.95
£2.85

Question 2 of 20: Staggering into work one Monday morning, you're briefly awoken from your zombie-like state with news of a 12% rise on your £25,000 salary. So what's your new pay?

£26,000
£27,000
£28,000
£29,000

Question 3 of 20: You're getting a round in. Three of you want pints of lovely, lovely bitter, while the other – who's been watching too many 60s-set American dramas – opts for a double bourbon on ice. If a beer costs £4.20 and a shot of bourbon is £3.50, what'll it come to?

£19.60
£20.40
£21.20
£22.40

Question 4 of 20: Looking to impress your other half with an impromptu holiday, you bag a bargain package trip to Kabul at the specially slashed rate of £235. If that's a saving of 60%, what would the original price have been?

£376.00
£587.50
£705.00
£940.50

Question 5 of 20: Sitting in your undies and playing online roulette in a manner very much like James Bond, you bet £5. Your number actually comes up and the odds are 35-1, so how much beer money have you won?

£115
£140
£175
£200

Question 6 of 20: Every time you brandish your dusty old laptop in public, people laugh and insult you to your face. You're saving £150 a month towards a new one. If you've already got £210 and your dream laptop costs £1100, how long until you can get it?

Four months
Five months
Six months
Seven months

Question 7 of 20: You and five mates are in your local curryhouse and thanks to massive beerage, the bill has come to £240. You decide to tip 15% on top of that - so how much should everyone pay?

£26
£36
£46
£56

Question 8 of 20: You and your closest pals are going on a wild weekend to Amsterdam to… um.... to see the Van Gogh paintings! If the current exchange rate gets you 1.4 euros for every pound, how much will you get for £400?

530 euros
540 euros
550 euros
560 euros

Question 9 of 20: Those lovely people at your car insurance company have decided to up the premium from £550 to £605 this year. What, roughly, is the percentage increase you'll shortly be whinging about to your friends?

5%
10%
15%
20%

Question 10 of 20: You're dividing a cake up at a small birthday get-together. Two guests are on diets and only want an eighth each. One is drunk and greedy and demands a quarter. You take a sixth for yourself, which leaves how much for hangover breakfast the next day?

A third
A quarter
A fifth
A sixth

Question 11 of 20: You want to buy a nice rug to make people think you're an actual grown up. If the living room measures 14 metres by 10 metres, and you want to leave a border two metres wide around the rug, what size should it be?

60 square metres
96 square metres
106 square metres
136 square metres

Question 12 of 20: You finally get round to setting up a savings account and proudly plonk £400 in there, with the promise of 5% interest being added annually. Even if you never added anything yourself, how much would be waiting for you in three years?

£450.10
£463.05
£476.45
£490.25

Question 13 of 20: There's one minute to go before the 2-for-1 happy hour ends and there's no time to waste. You hand over £20 and ask for as many drinks as you can get. You get £2 change and eight drinks – which means each drink normally costs what?

£4.00
£4.25
£4.50
£4.80

Question 14 of 20: Since you earn more than your beloved, lazy other half, you've gallantly/stupidly agreed to pay 2/3rds of all bills. This quarter, the grand total has come to £450 – so how much will your pockets be weeping?

£300
£320
£340
£360

Question 15 of 20: After putting it off forever, it's time to sort out the muddy World War One trench that is your lawn. If it measures 15 metres by 9, and the grass seeds you need cost 46p per square metre, how much will you have to spend?

£43.35
£49.50
£55.66
£62.10

Question 16 of 20: Say you're idling along the motorway at a respectable 70mph, and the next service station is 10 miles away, when can you tell your whinging passengers they can finally tuck into a freshly microwaved full English?

7 minutes
8.5 minutes
9 minutes
10.5 minutes

Question 17 of 20: You notice a dartboard in your local and decide it's time your friends got wind of your latent darting genius. If the starting score is 501 and you throw a treble 16, a double 17 and a treble 12, what will this leave you with?

490
420
399
383

Question 18 of 20: Due to a combination of rubbish lager and 4am Xboxing, you don't rock up to work until 11.23am. You then leave due to "sickness" at 4.15pm. If your usual hours are 8.30am to 6pm, how many minutes of toil have you cunningly avoided?

111
189
278
301

Question 19 of 20: Your admittedly bizarre local independent supermarket runs a special "Discount Tuesday" deal where every product over a fiver is discounted by 10%. If you buy eggs for £1.99, sausages for £2.60, a ribeye steak for £10.70, a bottle of rum for £15.90 and a bumper six-pack of Kebab Flavour instant noodles for £5.50, how much will you spend?

£25.89
£33.48
£38.50
£40.32

Question 20 of 20: You've started a new job at a dodgy sales company that makes Boiler Room look like Open All Hours. Your base monthly take home is £2,000, but you've got to sell £17,000 worth of useless stuff every month. Good news is you get 10% extra for everything beyond that quota. If you sold £27,200 in month one, what would your total pat be?

£3,110
£3,020
£2,890
£2,060