| Percentages | Numbers | Minimums/Chances | Estimates and such | Interesting |
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100What is 72%?
percentage change since 1985 in the number of US newspapers with reporters covering congres
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100What is 12?
Number of front page Boston Globe stories since 2007 that have been written by journalism students
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100What is 17?
Minimum number of "czars" Obama has appointed
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100What is -26?
Estimated percentage change since last year in the number of Chines factories producing fireworks for the US market
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100What is 14?
Months after being shot at a city council meeting last year that a Missouri reporter was laid off
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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 104?
Number they devoted to pirates off the Horn of Africa
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200What is 83,000,000? :O
Minimum number of Americans whose health care is paid for by taxes
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200What is $7,740,000,000? :O
Estimated value of the unmined uranium under a 100-acre area in southern Virginia
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200What is 2?
Number of Founding Fathers who were gay, according to Larry Kramer.
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300What is 70%?
percentage of Somalis last winter who though pirates were "protecting Somalia"
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300What is 5?
Number of new Justice Department lawyers so far who previously represented the Recording Industry Association of America
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300What is 15?
Minimum number of Spanish collection agencies whose employees wear costumes in order to shame debtors into paying
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300What is $4,100,000,000,000? :O
Estimated total amount that world fuiancial institutions will write off by 2010, according to the IMF
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300What is 46?
Percentage of 6 to 9 year old American girls who wear lipstick or lip gloss
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400What is 27%?
Percentage of Americans in April who identified themselves as Republicans
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400What is 4040?
Number of US children who attend public boarding schools
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400What is $1,250?
Minimum value of governmental bailouts of the global financial industry since 2007, per capita worldwide
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400What is 9?
Projected percentage growth this year in off-the books
transactions in the United States
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400What is 1 in 4?
Chance that an American thinks "the Jews"
were moderately or very much to blame
for the financial crisis
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500What is 20%?
Percentage who said the same month that "socialism is better than capitalism"
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500What is 53?
Number of US senators that have law degrees
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500What is 2 in 5?
Chances that a top-ten US bestselling book since January has been a book about vampires by Stephenie Meyer
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500What is 357,000,000,000
Number of poppyseed bagels that could be
made with Afghanistan's annual poppy
harvest
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500What is 1 in 7?
Chance he or she thinks they were "a little"
to blame
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