Year 5 (V) was a common year starting on Thursay (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Trivia about 5

  • In tic-tac-toe, maximum number of X's you can have on the board without winning
  • The word monosyllable has this many syllables
  • There are this many cards in one player's hand in standard draw poker
  • In 1952 the New York Yankees retired Joe DiMaggio's jersey with this number on it
  • A pentad is a group of this many
  • American Express Card numbers start with 3; MasterCard numbers, with this digit
  • Dancing in Havana, Lou Bega may try mambo numero cinco, this number
  • The stars on over 50 national flags, including ours, have this many points
  • As it has this many toes on each foot, a raccoon's footprints have a human look
  • Basketball
  • If one bus can hold 50 tourists, then at least this many buses are needed for 210 tourists
  • If a referee calls "offside" during a football game, the offending team may be penalized this many yards
  • Of 5, 15 or 25, the age at which the current Dalai Lama got the job
  • Jim has 6 apples, Billy has 4, Michele has 2 & Debbie has 8 for an average of this many
  • Michele L'Esperance made the cover of people after having this many test tube babies all at once
  • Back in ancient Rome, when someone gave you V he gave you this
  • A work week of this many days was not generally accepted until the 1930s
  • Number of months that do not have 31 days
  • Minnie Minoso, the major leaguer who played in the most different decades, played in this many
  • It's the number of books in the Torah
  • There are this many rings in the symbol of the Olympics
  • Of 3, 5 or 10, the number of enemy aircraft a fighter must shoot down to qualify as an ace
  • Hey! Gimme this number of stars on the flag of Singapore or the Solomon Islands
  • Ballplayer Alex Johnson said this when asked, "2 homers last year. 7 this year -- what's the difference?"
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) If side a equals 3 & side B equals 4, it's the length of side C
  • In December 1944 George Marshall got the rank of General of the Army with this many stars
  • The number of eggs left in a carton if a boy eats all but 5
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a figure of a right triangle with sides marked "3" and "4" and a hypotenuse marked "C".) According to the theorem made famous by Pythagoras, it's the value of C in the figure seen here
  • Number that's the greatest common factor of 15, 130 & 10,000
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew milks a cow at Old World, Wisconsin.) Jersey cows, vital to the dairy industry, produce 40 pounds of milk a day; if a gallon weighs 8 pounds, that's this many gallons--I think I'm gonna need a bigger bucket
  • Of 2, 5 or 10, the number of eyes on a bee
  • It's the number of dice you toss on your first roll of Yahtzee
  • The third smallest prime number
  • The Yangtze is a river; Yahtzee is a game played with this many dice
  • Things that are quinary come in bunches of this many
  • In tenpin bowling, it's the number of the pin in the middle of the triangle
  • Without getting a tic-tac-toe on "Hollywood Squares" you could still win a game with this many Xs
  • Originally there were this many Marx Brothers
  • Number of F's in this flimsy formulation of a question
  • A cinquain is a poem consisting of this many lines
  • An NHL team killing a penalty normally has this many guys on the ice
  • It's the number of years in a French president's term of office; in 2000 it was reduced from 7
  • Number of pecks in a bushel & a peck
  • In a magic square, each row, column & main diagonal adds to the same total; the one here is missing this number
  • The length of the shelf of classic books compiled by Harvard's president in 1909
  • A song from "Guys and Dolls" begins, "I love you a bushel and a peck", which would be a total of this many pecks
  • Congrats! You won the Nobel Prize in Economics -- that leaves you this many other categories to go after
  • A scout troop hikes 3 miles due north, 4 miles due east & straight back this far to their starting point