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Government
100
As of December 1st, 2009, the official debt of the United States government was approximately this amount in dollars.
What is 12.1 trillion
100
The average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker was about __________ at the beginning of 2011.
What is $1177.00?
100
In Detroit, 100 ______________ recently refused to drive their routes out of fear for their own personal safety.
What is bus drivers?
100
_________ are one of the ingredients of dynamite. (household food, good with beer)
What are peanuts?
100
The legislative branch is made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the _________________.
What is the House of representatives?
200
To pay this 12.1 trillion dollar debt would require approximately this much, from every single person living in the United States.
What is 40,000.00 dollars?
200
According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than ________ saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement
What is $10,000.00?
200
Beating up old people for no reason seems to be catching on all over the country. AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk in Valley Park earlier this week theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of ______.
What is "get the old geezer."
200
There are more _______ than people in the world. (small farm animal)
What are chickens?
200
There are _______ senators in the Senate, two from each state.
What is 100?
300
The U.S. national debt rises at an average of approximately this much, in billions per day.
What is 3.8 billion?
300
According to a recent poll conducted by Americans for Secure Retirement,____% of all Americans are worried about "maintaining a comfortable standard of living in retirement". Last year, that figure was at 73 percent.
What is 88%?
300
According to one recent survey, ___% of all Occupy Wall Street protesters "would support violence to advance their agenda".
What is 31%?
300
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in this US state.
What is New Jersey?
300
There are ______ representatives in the House of Representatives. The number of representatives each state gets is based on its population.
What is 435?
400
The U.S. government has such a voracious appetite for debt that the rest of the world simply doesn't have enough money to lend us. So now the Federal Reserve is buying most U.S. debt, and the only reason they can do that is
What is because they basically create the money to lend us out of thin air. they print more dollars?
400
Today, _____ out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.
What is one?
400
If you thought that the above example was crazy, just check out what one man down in Georgia did recently. He actually firebombed a Taco Bell because they did not put enough meat in his ______.
What is Chalupa?
400
An ________'s eye is bigger than its brain.
What is an ostrich?
400
The ________ is the head of the executive branch, which makes laws official.
What is the president?
500
During the Obama administration so far, the U.S. government has _________________ than it did from the time that George Washington took office, to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
What is accumulated more NEW debt?
500
Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens. By 2050 that number is projected to increase to ______ million.
What is 89 million?
500
In the first half of this year, the Federal Trade Commission received more than ________ complaints from Floridians whose identities had been stolen -- nearly as many as in all of 2010.
What is 20,000?
500
The average person falls asleep in ______ minutes.
What is 7?
500
1973 Roe v. Wade—Made this legal
What is abortion ?