Real World Percentages
This standard tip rate in U.S. restaurants, often represented as a fifth of the total bill, is typically given for good service.
What is 20%?
When you snap a photo of a birthday check with your smartphone to put it into your checking account without visiting a branch, you are doing what?
What is a mobile check deposit?
This pop star’s "Eras Tour" became the first music tour in history to cross the $1 billion revenue mark.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This is the default term for a piece of code intentionally hidden in a video game or software as a fun joke or secret message for users to find.
What is an Easter egg?
This fruit actually shares more than 50% of its DNA structure with human beings!
What is a banana?
This gas makes up roughly 78% of Earth’s atmosphere by volume, making it the most abundant element in the air we breathe.
What is Nitrogen?
You swipe this piece of plastic at the grocery store, and the money comes directly out of your checking account seconds later.
What is a debit card?
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy follows this brightly colored path to reach the Emerald City.
What is the Yellow Brick Road?
This wireless technology named after a 10th-century Scandinavian king allows short-range data exchange between mobile devices.
What is Bluetooth?
This geometric shape is used by bees to build honeycombs because it uses the least amount of wax to hold the most honey.
What is a hexagon?
If you decide to tip a generous 25% on a $40 dinner bill, this is the exact amount you’re leaving on the table.
What is $10?
This feature allows you to buy a $5 coffee with a debit card even if you only have $2 in your account, though your bank will usually charge a steep fee for the privilege.
What is overdraft protection?
In Shrek, the ogre famously compares his complex personality to this vegetable.
What is an onion?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - This was the original logo for Twitter before the company rebranded to "X".
What is a bluebird (or Larry the Bird)?
This is the only mammal on Earth that cannot physically jump.
What is the elephant?
You spot a $60 jacket on a clearance rack marked "30% off." Before tax, this is the final discounted price you will pay at checkout.
What is $42?
When you write a paper check or initiate an online transfer that hasn't officially cleared or settled between the two banks yet, the funds are referred to by this 7-letter status.
What is pending?
In the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Peter Parker's favourite Christmas song is a parody version dedicated to this breakfast food.
What are flapjacks (or pancakes)?
Originally released as an invite-only site for Harvard students in 2004, this social network is called.
What is TheFacebook?
This organ is the largest internal organ in the human body by weight.
What is the liver?
You purchase a $200 tablet in a state with a 6% sales tax rate. This is the total dollar amount of tax added to your purchase.
What is $12?
When you open a checking account, you agree to this specific dollar amount you must keep in the account at all times to avoid monthly maintenance fees.
What is a minimum daily balance?
In Stranger Things, the kids use this classic tabletop role-playing game to name the monsters threatening Hawkins.
What is Dungeons & Dragons?
In computing terminology, "RAM" stands for this type of high-speed temporary memory.
What is Random Access Memory?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - In 2006, astronomers reclassified this former 9th planet as a "dwarf planet."
What is Pluto?
You hit a 50% off sale on a $70 video game, and the cashier scans a coupon for an extra 10% off the sale price. This is what you pay before tax.
What is $31.50? ($70 → $35 → $31.50)
This term describes a monthly charge some banks stick on checking accounts if you don't maintain a minimum balance or set up direct deposit.
What is a monthly maintenance fee?
Before becoming a blockbuster movie franchise, The Fast and the Furious was loosely based on a 1998 Vibe magazine article titled "Racer" about street racing in this city.
What is New York City?
n 1995, Sun Microsystems released a revolutionary programming language originally named "Oak," which was later rebranded to this coffee-inspired name.
What is Java?
This is the only official food state dish of Texas, famous for strictly excluding beans in traditional recipes.
What is chili?
A $200 flight goes on sale for 25% off. After buying it, you notice a 10% airport booking fee was added to the discounted price. This is your final subtotal.
What is $165? ($200 → $150 → $165)
This 3-digit score ranges from 300 to 850 and acts like a report card for how reliably you pay back borrowed money.
What is a credit score (or FICO score)?
Directed by Bong Joon-ho, this 2019 South Korean thriller made history as the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
Before it became a massive corporate chat tool, Slack was originally built as an internal messaging system for developers working on this failed online video game.
What is Glitch?
While most people know that a group of lions is called a "pride," a group of flamingos is officially known by this vibrant collective noun.
What is a flamboyance?
A pair of designer sneakers originally priced at $150 is marked down by 20%. The store then offers an additional 10% off the already discounted price. This is the final pre-tax price.
What is $108? ($150 → $120 → $108)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - This is the term for the maximum balance a bank will let you carry on a credit card before declining further purchases.
What is a credit limit?
Before becoming a famous movie star, Chris Pratt played the lovable, guitar-playing Andy Dwyer on this NBC comedy series.
What is Parks and Recreation?
In 2010, a programmer famously made the first real-world purchase using Bitcoin, spending 10,000 Bitcoins to buy two of this fast-food item.
What is pizza?
Female koalas have pouches for their joeys, but they also share a bizarre trait with humans: every single koala has a completely unique set of these on their front paws!
What are fingerprints?
A $500 TV receives a 20% discount, but shipping adds 10% back onto the discounted price. This is the final cost.
What is $440? ($500 → $400 → $440)
The FDIC automatically insures deposits at participating banks up to this dollar threshold per depositor, per account ownership category.
What is $250,000?
On The Office, Michael Scott hosts an annual awkward award ceremony for his employees at a local Chili's, known by this name.
What are The Dundies?
What legendary four-letter keyboard shortcut combination is known as the "Three-Finger Salute" used to interrupt or restart an operating system?
What is Ctrl+Alt+Del?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - During WWII, the U.S. government briefly attempted to train thousands of these small flying mammals to carry tiny incendiary bombs into enemy territory.
What are bats?
You put $200 into a piggy bank that earns 5% simple annual interest. After 2 years, you've made this much in free interest.
What is $20?
This 9-digit number printed on the bottom left corner of your paper checks identifies your specific banking institution to the financial network.
What is a routing number?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - In The Matrix, Neo chooses between two colored pills; this color pill keeps him living in blissful ignorance inside the simulation.
What is the blue pill?
Long before its modern streaming service, Netflix was founded in 1997 by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. What was the very first DVD the company ever mailed to test its service?
What is Beetlejuice?
Cashews never come in a shell inside a snack mix because the raw shell contains urushiol—the exact same toxic chemical compound found in this painful woodland plant!
What is poison ivy?