Dirty Jobs
One of host Mike Rowe's earliest jobs in television was showcasing and pitching products for this home-shopping network, although he was repeatedly fired (and then rehired) because of his irreverent speeches mocking the products.
What is QVC?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 160 million Americans were working a wage-earning job in July of 2022, or roughly this percentage of the population rounded to the nearest 10% interval.
What is 50%?
GDP stands for this three word term meaning the total monetary measure of the market value of goods, trades, and services produced by a country.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
Only two denominations of currency feature non-presidents' portraits: the $10 bill featuring Alexander Hamilton and this founding father pictured on the $100 bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This red and white beverage logo is recognized by 94% of the world's population.
What is Coca Cola?
In a "crossover event" on the Discovery Channel, Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe filmed episodes specifically related to jobs with dangerous fish species to celebrate this celebrated annual week of programming on the network.
What is Shark Week?
Based on median pay in 2022, the top six occupations earning the most all required this kind of graduate degree to perform.
What is a medical degree?
If this U.S. state's economy were ranked as a nation instead of a state, it would surpass the economy of India in size.
What is California?
While still in circulation and usable as currency, the United States no longer prints this largest-ever denomination of paper money, 100 times greater than the largest denomination of bill now printed.
What is $10,000?
Samsung accounts for roughly 20% of this country's total economic revenue.
What is South Korea?
Among the segments deemed "too disturbing" to broadcast for the show, Mike Rowe said one involving this type of "farm" studying human decomposition was left on the cutting room floor.
What is a body farm?
This demographics group including those born from 1981 to 1996 are now the largest generation in the U.S. labor force, having surpassed Gen Xers in 2016.
What are millennials?
Apple reached this huge number of dollars as its market capitalization (or value as a company) on January 6th, 2020, becoming the first corporation in the world to do so.
What is one trillion dollars?
The only US bill to have a president featured on the back of its design is this relatively rare amount, fittingly featuring both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
What is the $2 bill?
More people in the world own mobile phones than this plumbing fixture.
What is a toilet?
Among the five Emmy nominations received by the show, two were for excellence in this art of motion picture photography whose Greek name means "drawing or painting of movement."
What is cinematography?
With the exception of Tuesdays for Australia, this day is the most common for an employee to call in sick in the rest of the world.
What is Monday?
Many Japanese workers fear "karoshi," or this effect of consistently working 60-70 hours a week which has affects around 10,000 workers there annually.
What is death?
The back of a US nickel features Monticello, the opulent residence this founding father and former president, which now serves as a museum and educational institution located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
One in eight American workers have been employed at some point by this major restaurant chain.
What is McDonald's?
What is roadkill?
Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is consistently said to be this career involving harvesting and transport in the logging industry.
What is a lumberjack?
Despite having the world's largest economy, the U.S. ranks 10th in wealth per resident (or capita), with the number one spot held by this small nation bordered by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf of Bahrain.
What is Qatar?
The Lincoln memorial was added to the back of the penny in 1959, honoring this anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
What is 150th anniversary?
Nearly one-third of the U.S. population is said to visit this retailer each week.
What is Walmart?