Industries
Question: What popular company spends more on health care insurance for its employees than on coffee beans?
Answer: Starbucks
Question: The Rubik's cube is the number one selling product of all time. What is number 2?
Answer: iphone
Question: The top 9 coffee drinking countries in the world are all from one continent. Which continent is it?
Answer: Europe. By contry, 4.9-9.6 kg of coffee per capita per year. For reference, in Korea people drink 2.5 kg per capita.
Question: To what language group does English belong? In other words, from where does English originate? (prior to England)
Answer: Germanic
Question: What is the first known written language? Or, rather, in what ancient civilization invented it, or to what current country(s) does that civilization geographically belong?
Answer: Sumerian (Ancient Sumer). Iraq, Kuwait (Mespotamia).
Question: MacDonald's first items were not hamburgers, but another popular (and unhealthy) American food. What was it?
Answer: hotdogs
Question: For how long does the average Facebook user use Facebook in a day?
Answer: 20 minutes
Question: What are the top 5 countries with the most tourists per year?
Answer: France, USA, Spain, China, Italy
Question: What are the 6 countries where English is the majority language?
Answer: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States
Question: Is s-v-o (like English), v-s-o (like Arabic), s-o-v (like Korean), or v-o-s (like Fijian) the most common format of languages?
Answer: s-o-v accounts for 45% of all languages (ex, Japanese, Hindi). s-v-o accounts for 42% (ex, French, Malay). v-s-o is rarer at 9% (Filipino, Irish). v-o-s is very rare.
Question: What car company owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche?
Answer: Volkswagen
Question: What unhealthy activity voids the Apple computer warranty if you do it near the computer?
Answer: smoking
Question: Name 3 Asian countries that drive on the left hand side of the road.
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Question: How many countries have English as one of the official languages?
Answer: 54 sovereign states, 27 non-sovereign states (54-81)
Question: In how many countries is Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese) an official language?
Answer: 5: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore
Question: In 2019 Candy Crush made how much money per day on average?
Answer: 4.2 million ($4 200 000 USD)
Question: At Amazon.com, every employee spends 2 days working in this department, because it is so important to Amazon. What is it?
Answer: Customer Service
Question: Networked Readiness Index (NRI) ranks 148 countries for the quality of their digital infrastructure. How many of the top ten can you name?
Answer: Finland, Singapore, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong, UK, South Korea
Question: There are 4 countries in Asia where English is an official language. How many can you name?
Answer: India, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore
Question: How many active languages are there?
Answer: 6,500-7,000. approx. 2,000 of them has 1000 speakers or less
Question: What activity generates more revenue than movies, sports, theme parks, cruise ships, and music combined?
Answer: Gambling
Question: Breakfast cereal spends second the most money on TV ads these days. What industry is #1?
Answer: cars
The World Bank ranks countries according to the ease of doing business. How many of the top 10 can you name?
New Zealand, Singapore, Denmark, Hong Kong, South Korea, Georgia, Norway, USA, UK, Macedonia
Question: How many Canadians speak English as their first language (percentage)?
Answer: approx. 75%
Question: Can you name the top 5 languages by number of speakers?
Answer: Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, English, Arabic