40
This is the only number in the English language whose letters are in alphabetical order.
What is forty?
2020 marks the 150th anniversary of this animal being used as a symbol for Democrats.
What is a donkey?
At the age of 40, this former Beatles member was shot and killed by an obsessed fan outside of Manhattan apartment.
Who is John Lennon?
This singer sang "Wise men say Only fools rush in But I can't help falling in love with you".
Who is Elvis?
Before marrying and divorcing Joe DiMaggio and then Arthur Millar, she, then known as Norma Jean Baker first married at the age of 16 to her 21-year-old neighbor as a solution to avoid returning to foster care or an orphanage.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
This temperature is the same on both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales?
What is -40?
This year is the 200th anniversary of this beautiful state separating from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and became the nation’s 23rd state.
What is Maine?
As a part of the Missouri Compromise (also it's 200th anniversary), Maine joined the union as a free state, while Missouri entered it as a slave state, maintaining the balance between free and slave states in the nation.
This film in the original Star Wars trilogy was released in 1980.
What is Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back?
This singer told her bodyguard "I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of And I wish to you joy and happiness But above all this, I wish you love And I will always love you I will always love you I will always love you" etc.
Who is Whitney Houston?
Just after her divorce with Sonny was finalized, she said "I do" to Gregg Allman in Las Vegas. On July 9, 1975, only nine days later, she filed to have that marriage dissolved.
Who is Cher?
This English word comes from the 14th century Venetian dialect of Italian meaning "forty days", which was the period that all ships were required to be isolated in harbors before passengers and crew could go ashore during the bubonic plague epidemic.
What is quarantine?
(from Venetian quaranta giorni = 40 days)
This year is the 100th anniversary of the adoption of this amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the U.S.
What is the 19th?
The film starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, which tells the story of a couple's divorce, won Best Picture at the Oscars in 1980.
What is Kramer vs. Kramer?
In 2011 for 10 straight weeks at number one Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris told us “We found love in a this-kind of place.”
What is a hopeless place?
Married to Jennifer Aniston from 2000-2005, this half of Brangelina also split from Angelina Jolie after a 2-year marriage from 2014-2016.
Who is Brad Pitt?
In 1938 Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which required employers to pay overtime to all employees who worked more than 44 hours a week. They then amended the act in this year to reduce the work week to 40 hours.
What is 1940?
Fun fact: Alex Trebeck was also born in this year!
Is is also the 40th anniversary of this volcano erupting in the U.S.
What is Mount Saint Helens?
This puzzle toy from a Hungarian sculpture and architect hit stores in May, starting a worldwide craze and competitions.
What is the Rubik's Cube?
After John Lennon and and Paul McCartney performed their new song "She Loves You" for Paul's dad for the first time, Paul's dad responded "That's very nice son, but there's enough of these Americanisms around. Couldn't you sing 'She loves you, __, __, __."
What is "yes, yes, yes"?
Fifteen years after their fairytale wedding, this princess and prince of Wales divorced in a rather unfairytale fashion amid rumors of infidelity on both sides.
Who are Charles and Diana?
English optician, inventor of telescopes, and possibly potato chips, William Kitchiner wrote in his 1821 self-help guide, "The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life", that "forty of *these* in a horizontal posture, is the best preparative for any extraordinary exertion, either of body or mind".
What are winks?
It is this anniversary of when the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock with the Pilgrims.
What is 400th?
Rhodesia, a British territory in southern Africa, became an independent sovereign state under this new name.
What is Zimbabwe?
In this number 1 hit on the Top 40 for 9 weeks in 1981, Diana Ross and Lional Ritche sing "'Cause you You mean the world to me Oh I know I know I've found in you My THIS Oooh-woow Boom, boom"
What is Endless Love?
Made famous by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin in 2015, this neologism was actually coined in 2009 by Marriage and Family Therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas as a five-step program which she offered as a calmer alternative to divorce. It is based on a theory proposed by Sociologist Diane Vaughan in 1976.
What is conscious uncoupling?