| Significant Numbers | Weirdo Beardo | Percentages | Government | Seriously? |
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100What is $2,800,000?
Amount that Utah plans to raise by levying an $8 conviction fee against each person found guilty there.
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100What is 1/4?
Chance that an American thinks "the Jews" were to blame for the financial crisis.
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100What is 64?
The percentage of rich Americans that claim they have "lost faith in the integrity of financial service institutions".
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100What is -72?
Percentage change since 1985 in the number of U.S. newspapers with reporters covering congress.
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100What is 53?
Number of U.S. senators who have law degrees.
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200What is 83,000,000?
Minimum number of Americans whose healthcare is paid for by taxes.
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200What is 16?
Number of states that have proposed expansion of gambling laws, including legalization this year.
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200What is 27?
Percentage of Americans who have made premature withdrawals from their retirement/college saving funds since 2008.
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200What is -32?
Percentage change since 2003 in the number of newspaper reporters covering state legislatures.
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200What is 2?
Number of founding fathers who were gay according to Larry Kramer.
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300What is 357,000,000,000?
Number of poppyseed bagels that could be produced with Afghanistan's annual poppyseed harvest.
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300What is 104?
Number they devoted to pirates off the Horn of Africa.
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300What is 70?
Percentage of Somalis last winter who though pirates were protecting Somalia.
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300What is 62?
Total # of minutes during Obamas first 100 days that network TV devoted to Afghanistan.
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300What is 14?
Months after being shot at a city council meeting that a Missourreporter was laid off.
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400What is $7,740,000,000?
Estimated value of the unmined uranium under a 100-acre area in southern VA.
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400What is 8?
Number of the 9 members of the chinese communist party's governing body who were trained as engineers?
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400What is 46?
Percentage of 6-9 year old American girls who wear lipstick or lipgloss.
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400What is 17?
Minimum number of czars that Obama has appointed.
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400What is 15?
Minimum number of spanish collection agencies whose employees wear costumes in order to shame debtors into paying.
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500What is $4,100,000,000,000?
Estimated total value that world financial institutions will write off by 2010, according to IMF.
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500What is 286?
Number of readings and other events listed so far this year on Cowboypoetry.com.
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500What is -24?
Percentage change since 2007 in average cost of a U.S. wedding.
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500What is $83,000?
Price paid last winter for the foreclosed boyhood home of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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500What is 12?
Number of front page Boston Globe stories since 2007 that were written by journalism students.
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