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May 23, 2014 by kevinstilley

How Many?

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year.

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.

Americans consumed 76 billion pounds of red meat and poultry in the year 2000, up 21% from a decade earlier.

Americans consume 29 billion, or 58 percent, of the 50 billion aspirin tablets which are taken worldwide each year.

Golfers use an estimated $800 million worth of golf balls annually.

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of french fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.

The Mills Brothers have recorded more songs than any other artist(s): about 2,250.

Over 40 percent of the women in the U.S. were in the Girl Scouts organization. Two-thirds of the women listed in “Who’s Who of Women” were Girl Scouts.

In any given week, an average of 2.3 million Americans are on paid vacation.

By the time a child finishes elementary school he/she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.

About twenty-five percent of the population sneezes when they are exposed to light.

The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters compared with the 26 in English.

Over 36 million Americans have Irish ancestry. That’s almost nine times the population of Ireland, which has 4.4 million people.

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November 28, 2013 by kevinstilley

Thanksgiving Pop Quiz

How many of the following questions can you answer?

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May 18, 2011 by kevinstilley

Trivia Compendium

Who (People)

  • Aztec
  • Bill Gates
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • General George S. Patton, Jr.
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Inca
  • Left Handed People
  • Presidents of the United States
  • Sherlock Holmes

Where (Places)

  • Alaska
  • Chile, South America
  • Hawaii
  • Hollywood
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Las Vegas
  • Mount Rushmore
  • New Mexico
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Oregon
  • South Carolina
  • Vermont

What (Animals)

  • Animal Life Spans
  • Bears
  • Birds
  • Camels
  • Cats
  • Cockroach
  • Dogs
  • Frogs
  • Giraffes
  • Gorillas
  • Horses
  • Insects
  • Lobsters
  • Ostrich
  • Oysters
  • Rabbits
  • Rats
  • Sharks
  • Snakes
  • Whales

What (Things)

  • Airport Names
  • Anatomy
  • Aviation
  • Art
  • Baseball
  • Bathroom
  • Beverages
  • Board Games
  • Breathing
  • Candy
  • Chocolate
  • Coffee
  • Congress
  • Cookies
  • Crime
  • Dental
  • Earth Day
  • Eiffel Tower
  • English Language
  • Fashion
  • Garlic
  • Gold Trivia
  • Hair
  • Headaches
  • Holidays
  • Honey
  • Ice Cream
  • Internet
  • Lakes, Rivers & Swamps
  • Laughter
  • Lent
  • Money
  • Names
  • Natural Gas
  • Numbers
  • Ocean
  • Opera
  • Peanut Butter
  • Pizza
  • Pollution
  • Potatoes
  • Population
  • Postal
  • Satellite
  • Saturn
  • Shoes
  • Sleep
  • Space Exploration
  • Sports
  • Suicide
  • Sunday School
  • Telephone
  • Thanksgiving
  • Universe
  • Watermelon
  • Weather

How…?

  • Fast
  • Large
  • Likely
  • Long
  • Many

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May 15, 2011 by kevinstilley

Bird Trivia

Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

An ostrich can run at speeds up to 45 miles per  hour.

A bird’s eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. To be comparable to a bird’s eyes, our eyes would have to be the size of baseballs.

A bird sees everything at once in total focus. Whereas the human eye is globular and must adjust to varying distances, the bird’s eye is flat and can take in everything at once in a single glance

The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Insect Trivia

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.

A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Aviation Trivia

The Wright brothers’ first plane flight took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Igor Sikorsky invented the helicopter.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Hawaii Trivia

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In 1960 Hawaii was the 50th state to join the United States.

Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States – Iolani.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Lakes, Rivers & Swamps – Trivia

The Congo is the only river that flows both north and south of the equator. It crosses the equator twice.

Hydrologically speaking, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are a single lake.

The deepest lake in the United States is Oregon’s Crater Lake.

At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.

The name Okefenokee Swamp means “trembling earth” in Seminole.

The Dead Sea is nine times saltier than the ocean.

Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Weather Trivia

The highest temperature ever recorded in the world was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit at El Azizia, Lybia, on September 13, 1922.

The most snow accumulation in a one-day period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado, in April 1921.

The speed of a raindrop varies with drop size and wind speed. A typical raindrop falls an average of 600 feet per minute, or 7 miles per hour.

Hail destroys hundreds of millions dollars’ worth of crops and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by tornadoes.

Lightning has hit the Empire State Building in New York as frequently as 12 times in 20 minutes. The building is hit by lightning about 500 times a year.

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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Money Trivia

Money isn’t made out of paper; it’s made out of linen.

The dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785.

They no longer make a $1,000 bill, but President Grover Cleveland’s image appeared on it at the time it was being printed.

Woodrow Wilson was the face of the $100,000 bill.  It was never circulated but was used by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.

A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 lb.

The first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on October 15, 1794.

As of 1976, there were approximately 375 ten-thousand dollar bills in circulation in the United States.

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