A quiz for WordPress’s 20th birthday on the 27th of May 2023. This quiz was the subject of the in-person WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on Wed 24th May 2023.

General knowledge
Question | Answer | Reference |
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Which element is atomic number 20 | Calcium | wikipedia |
What does 20/20 vision mean? | Normal at 20ft | wikipedia |
What are the numbers adjacent to 20 on a dartboard? | 5 & 1 | wikipedia |
If you dialled a number starting +20 where would you be calling? | Egypt | wikipedia |
What is twenty in Roman numerals? | XX | wikipedia |
What can you theoretically solve in no more than 20 moves? | A Rubic’s cube | http://www.cube20.org/ |
What country has the ISO 3166-1 code 020? | Andorra | wikipedia |
On this day – 27th May
Year | Clue | Who/what is it? | Reference |
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1911 | Born: American horror actor. The Abominable Dr Phibes, Thriller | Vincent Price | |
1922 | Born: English actor. Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films | Christopher Lee | |
1975 | Born: Naked celebrity chef | Jamie Oliver | |
1977 | Sex Pistols release… | God Save the Queen | |
1930 | Which of these was granted a patent: Jukebox, Pyrex Glass, Masking Tape. | Masking Tape ( 3M ) |
2003 film titles

Big Fish | Finding Nemo | Johhny English | Kill Bill Volume 1 | Lost in Translation |
Love Actually | Pirates of the Caribbean – The curse of the black pearl | School of Rock | Seabiscuit | The Lord of the Rings – The return of the King |
20 is
Question | Answer | Reference |
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20 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius is: -5.556, -6.667, -7.778 | -6.667 | |
The A20 goes from London to: Hastings, Margate, Dover | Dover | |
20 North 20 East. Where are you? Chad, Libya, Sudan | Chad | |
The square root of 20 is plus/minus: 4.4721, 4.3721, 4.2721 | 4.4721 | |
Which of these is 20 in braille: ⠼⠃⠚ ⠞⠺⠑⠝⠞⠽ ⠭⠭ |
⠼⠃⠚ | https://symbl.cc/en/tools/braille/ 20, twenty, XX |
20 years ago – during 2003
Guess the month. 12 different answers.
Event | Month |
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Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry | February |
Saddam Hussein is captured | December |
Dewey the world’s first cloned Deer is born | May |
Tesla Inc. – the American electric car company – is founded | July |
MySpace is launched | August |
Greta Thunberg is born | January |
Concorde’s last flight | November |
Human Genome project is completed | April |
WordPress 0.71-gold released | June |
Nokia 7600 announced | September |
Iraq war begins | March |
Concorde’s last commercial flight | October |
Highest grossing stars in 2003

Ian McKellen | Antonio Banderas | Will Smith |
Ben Affleck | Keanu Reeves | Michelle Rodriguez |
Nicole Kidman | Eddie Murphy | Tom Cruise |
WordPress core, plugins and themes
For some clues for the following questions watch my video where I demo WordPress v0.71-gold updated to run on PHP 8.
Question | Answer | Reference |
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Which of these Twenty something themes wasn’t created as a bundled theme? 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 | 2018 | https://herbmiller.me/wordpress-core-bundled-themes-version/ |
Which plugin is not in the 20 most downloaded from wordpress.org: Redirection, Classic Editor, Gutenberg, Site Kit by Google | Gutenberg, currently 35th | https://top-10-wp-plugins.com/top-12-latest-extract/ |
Match the tickets to the number: #20, #200, #2000, #20000 – Permalink page grammar correction – wp-comments.php should use fieldset instead of p – We have alot of tickets – Templates area does’t work if wp install dir is changed |
: #2000 #200 #20000 #20 |
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Which of these was not one of the first plugins in WordPress 0.71? Akismet, Hello Dolly, Kubrick, WordPress Importer | All of them | |
How many plugins were last updated on 27th May 2022? 0, 34, 68 | 34 | wp-top12 |
What was the maximum size of a File Upload in WordPress 0.71 96KB, 230KB, 1MB | 96KB | 230KB was .zip file! |
Which of these functions was not in WP 0.71? antispambot() , capital_P_dangit() , wpautop() |
capital_P_dangit | v3.0.0 |
Fun with CSS?
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figure.hc3 td:nth-child(3),
figure.hr tr td
{ color: white;
border-color: black;
font-size: 0px;
}
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figure.hc2 td:nth-child(2):hover,
figure.hc3 td:nth-child(3):hover,
figure.hr tr td:hover {
color: black;
font-size: 20px;
transition: all 2s ease-out;
}
.hr table { table-layout: fixed; }