| 49701. |
A Dutch study indicated that 50 percent of the adult Dutch population have never flown in an airplane, and ---------------- percent admitted a fear of flying.
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| 49702. |
A Harvard study of college drinking showed that more than ---------- percent of students indulge in binge drinking, which is defined as consuming five drinks at one sitting by men or four drinks by women. Of college students who drink, one-third drink to get drunk.
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| 49703. |
A McDonald's straw will hold ------------------- ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.
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| 49704. |
A poll taken shows that between 74 and 94 percent of workers in the United States and Canada take 5 to 15 minutes daily for a --------------.
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| 49705. |
A recent Gallup poll shows that -------- percent of Americans believe they will go somewhere after death.
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| 49706. |
A recent Gallup Poll Social Audit on gambling showed that ----------- percent of Americans have bought a lottery ticket in the last 12 months, making lotteries by far the favorite choice of gamblers.
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| 49707. |
A recent Gallup survey showed that in the United States, 8 percent of kissers kept their eyes open, but more than --------------- percent confessed to an occasional peek. Forty-one percent said they experienced their first serious smooch when they were 13, 14, or 15 years old; 36 percent between the ages of 16 and 21.
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| 49708. |
The most memorable kiss in a motion picture was in -------------------, according to 25 percent of those polled.
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| 49709. |
A recent study conducted by the Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, California, revealed that almost 90 percent of Americans label themselves as --------
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| 49710. |
A stack of $1 dollar bills one-mile high would be worth more than -------------- dollars.
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| 49711. |
A study by researcher Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and ---------------------
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| 49712. |
A survey revealed that ---------- percent of snowmobilers in Maine are males. Snowmobiling added $226 million to the state's economy in 1996.
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| 49713. |
A ten-gallon hat holds 3/4 gallon or ---- quarts.
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| 49714. |
About 24 percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires, and ----------
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| 49715. |
About 24 percent of American adults say they have participated, at some time or another, in illegal -------------
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| 49716. |
About --------- percent of all male Americans between the ages of 10 and 15 were "gainfully employed" at the turn of the century. By 1970, so few in that age bracket were employed that the U.S. Census Bureau did not bother to make inquiries about them.
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| 49717. |
About 60 percent of all American babies are named after -------------
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| 49718. |
About ---------------- percent of American households buy yellow mustard every year.
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| 49719. |
According to a 1995 poll, 1 out of 10 people admitted that they will buy an outfit intending to wear it once and ------------
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| 49720. |
According to a Gallup poll, 11 percent of the U.S. population believes in --------- and other supernatural entities.
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| 49721. |
According to a poll, ------------------ percent of those responding admitted that they had falsely called in sick to get a day off from work.
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| 49722. |
According to a poll, only 29 percent of married couples agree on most -------------------
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| 49723. |
According to a recent poll, 39 percent of the people interviewed admitted that they snoop in their host's ----------------
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| 49724. |
According to a recent study, there are more than --------------- art galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, which, surprisingly, exceeds the number in either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
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| 49725. |
According to a recent survey, --------- percent of people who play the car radio while driving also sing along with it.
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| 49726. |
------------ has the highest percentage of cremations of all other U.S. states, with a 60.6 percent preference over burial.
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| 49727. |
In 1915, the average annual family income in the United States was $-------- a year.
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| 49728. |
In 1918 and 1919, a world epidemic of simple influenza killed 20 million people in the United States and ---------
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| 49729. |
In 1970, only 5 percent of the American population lived in -----------
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| 49730. |
In 1977, according to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, there were 14.5 telephone calls made for every 100 people in the ---------------------
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| 49731. |
According to advertising data, nearly 80 percent of Japanese ads use celebrities, the majority being local stars. Of foreign celebrities, the most popular in 1996 were noodle pitchman Arnold Schwarzenegger and whiskey endorser -----------------------
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| 49732. |
According to Bayer Aspirin(r), over --------- aspirin tablets are taken worldwide each year.
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| 49733. |
According to experts, 30 percent of all marriages occur because of -------------
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| 49734. |
According to Hallmark(r), the average person receives ---------- birthday cards annually.
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1 |
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| 49735. |
According to hospital figures, dogs bite an average of ------------ Americans a year.
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| 49736. |
According to one poll, 60 percent of the men surveyed admitted that they ----- in public.
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| 49737. |
According to one source, about 66 percent of magazines found tossed along U.S. roadsides are ----------------
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| 49738. |
In 1977, less than 9 percent of physicians in the U.S. were -----------
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| 49739. |
In 1990, the life expectancy of the average American male was 72.7 years and 76.1 years for females. In 1900, the life expectancy was 46.6 for males and ----------- for females.
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| 49740. |
In 1996, Americans bought only 12 inches of ------------ per capita.
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| 49741. |
In 1997, worldwide sales of fragrance topped $----------------, more than $6 billion in the United States alone.
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1 |
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| 49742. |
In a 1999 poll, Boston, scoring 40.6 percent, was ranked the top U.S. city with the most interesting -----------------
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| 49743. |
In a survey conducted by a women's magazine, 70 percent of female respondents said they would rather have -------------- than sex, according to the Chocolate Manufacturers Association.
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| 49744. |
According to suicide statistics, ---------- is the favored day for self-destruction.
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| 49745. |
According to suppliers, --------- is by far the favorite ink color in dabbers used by bingo players.
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| 49746. |
According to the Journal of American Medical Association, as of 1998, more than 100,000 Americans die annually from adverse reactions to ------------------
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| 49747. |
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, two out of five women in America -------------
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1 |
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| 49748. |
According to the U.S. government, people have tried more than 28,000 different ways to lose ------------
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1 |
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| 49749. |
Airport security personnel find about ------ weapons a day searching passengers.
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1 |
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| 49750. |
Seventy percent of house dust is made up of dead -----------------------
|
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1 |
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| 49751. |
Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of --------------------, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 have been injured.
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1 |
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| 49752. |
Since its introduction in February 1935, more than 150 million ----------- board games have been sold worldwide.
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1 |
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| 49753. |
Sixty percent of big-firm executives said the -------------- is as important or more important than the résumé itself when you're looking for a new job.
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| 49754. |
Soft drinks are American's favorite beverage. Water ranks #2, and milk is #3. The average American drinks about ----------- gallons of soft drinks per year.
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| 49755. |
In the United States, ---------------- have safer driving records than hearing people nationally.
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| 49756. |
Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in the United States is that of ------------------
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1 |
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| 49757. |
In the United States, more than 25 percent of women's fashion dollars are spent on sizes ---- and up.
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| 49758. |
Statistically, traveling by ------ is the safest means of transportation.
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| 49759. |
In Wales, there are more --------- than people
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| 49760. |
Although the United States has just 5 percent of the world's population, it has most of the world's lawyers at 70 percent. The American Bar Association has estimated that by 2000, the U.S. will have ------------------ lawyers.
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| 49761. |
Americans consume about 138 billion ---------------- a year.
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| 49762. |
Americans spend more money on ------------ every year than they spend on baby food.
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| 49763. |
America's first minimum wage was ----- cents an hour back in 1938.
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| 49764. |
An American Animal Hospital Association survey revealed that -------------- percent of dog owners sign letters or cards from themselves and their dogs.
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| 49765. |
It has been estimated that the typical American will spend an average of -------- years of his/her life reading newspapers.
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| 49766. |
The average 6-month accumulation of barnacles on the hull of a ship can produce enough drag to force the vessel to burn -------- percent more fuel than normal when cruising.
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| 49767. |
An average of 51 cars a year overshoot and drive into the canals of -------------
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| 49768. |
Banging your head against a wall can burn up to ----------- calories per hour.
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| 49769. |
Based on population, Chinese Mandarin is the most commonly spoken language in the world. --------- follows in second place
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| 49770. |
The average American will eat 35,000 --------- during their life span.
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| 49771. |
It is estimated that the average person living in North America opens the fridge ----- times daily.
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| 49772. |
The average American's diet today consists of 55 percent -----------
|
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| 49773. |
The average bra size sold at Frederick's of Hollywood in 1966 was a 34B. Today, it's a ----
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| 49774. |
It's been estimated that an opera singer burns an average of more than ---- calories per minute during a performance.
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| 49775. |
Left-handed people are ----- percent more likely to sample a forkful of food from the plates of fellow diners than are right-handed people.
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| 49776. |
Chocolate manufacturers use 40 percent of the world's ----------
|
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1 |
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| 49777. |
Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by -----------------
|
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1 |
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| 49778. |
Each year, more than 300,000 American teenagers become afflicted with some form of ---------------
|
1 |
1 |
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| 49779. |
Eighty percent of all people hit by ----------- are men.
|
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1 |
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| 49780. |
Monaco boasts the highest per capita ownership of -------------- in the world. An early 1990s survey put the figure at one for every 65 people.
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1 |
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| 49781. |
Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a
|
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| 49782. |
More people are killed by ------------- annually than are killed in plane crashes.
|
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1 |
100 |
| 49783. |
More redheads are born in ---------- than in any other country: 11 percent of its population has red hair.
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1 |
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| 49784. |
The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is ---------
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1 |
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| 49785. |
More than 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women say they've forgotten their ----------------- at least once.
|
1 |
1 |
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| 49786. |
Fleas can accelerate ------------- times faster than the space shuttle.
|
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1 |
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| 49787. |
Half of all murders are committed with ------------
|
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| 49788. |
The population of the entire world in 5000 B.C., according to the National Population Council, was ---------------
|
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| 49789. |
zzzOf the 15,000-odd known species of orchids in the world, 3,000 of them can be found in ---------
|
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| 49790. |
On a bingo card of 90 numbers, there are approximately -------------- ways to make B-I-N-G-O.
|
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| 49791. |
There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of------
|
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1 |
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| 49792. |
There are 6,272,640 square inches in an --------
|
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1 |
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| 49793. |
There are 63,360 inches in a ------
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49794. |
Per a 1995 poll, 3.9 percent of the women surveyed said they don't wear ------------
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49795. |
There are more than --------- different types of Barbie dolls.
|
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1 |
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| 49796. |
Per capita, Canada has more ------------ shops than any other country.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 49797. |
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about
|
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1 |
100 |
| 49798. |
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our ____ and _____ never stop growing
|
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1 |
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| 49799. |
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a _______ somewhere
|
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| 49800. |
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand _____ feet, _____ inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a norma human's neck
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