Percentages
Numbers
Minimums/Chances
Estimates and such
Interesting
100
percentage change since 1985 in the number of US newspapers with reporters covering congres
What is 72%?
100
Number of front page Boston Globe stories since 2007 that have been written by journalism students
What is 12?
100
Minimum number of "czars" Obama has appointed
What is 17?
100
Estimated percentage change since last year in the number of Chines factories producing fireworks for the US market
What is -26?
100
Months after being shot at a city council meeting last year that a Missouri reporter was laid off
What is 14?
200
percentage change since 2003 in the number of newspaper reporters covering state legislatures
What is 32%?
200
Number they devoted to pirates off the Horn of Africa
What is 104?
200
Minimum number of Americans whose health care is paid for by taxes
What is 83,000,000? :O
200
Estimated value of the unmined uranium under a 100-acre area in southern Virginia
What is $7,740,000,000? :O
200
Number of Founding Fathers who were gay, according to Larry Kramer.
What is 2?
300
percentage of Somalis last winter who though pirates were "protecting Somalia"
What is 70%?
300
Number of new Justice Department lawyers so far who previously represented the Recording Industry Association of America
What is 5?
300
Minimum number of Spanish collection agencies whose employees wear costumes in order to shame debtors into paying
What is 15?
300
Estimated total amount that world fuiancial institutions will write off by 2010, according to the IMF
What is $4,100,000,000,000? :O
300
Percentage of 6 to 9 year old American girls who wear lipstick or lip gloss
What is 46?
400
Percentage of Americans in April who identified themselves as Republicans
What is 27%?
400
Number of US children who attend public boarding schools
What is 4040?
400
Minimum value of governmental bailouts of the global financial industry since 2007, per capita worldwide
What is $1,250?
400
Projected percentage growth this year in off-the books transactions in the United States
What is 9?
400
Chance that an American thinks "the Jews" were moderately or very much to blame for the financial crisis
What is 1 in 4?
500
Percentage who said the same month that "socialism is better than capitalism"
What is 20%?
500
Number of US senators that have law degrees
What is 53?
500
Chances that a top-ten US bestselling book since January has been a book about vampires by Stephenie Meyer
What is 2 in 5?
500
Number of poppyseed bagels that could be made with Afghanistan's annual poppy harvest
What is 357,000,000,000
500
Chance he or she thinks they were "a little" to blame
What is 1 in 7?
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