Alaska
Scuba Diving
Classical Music
Woodworking
Sci-Fi Literature
100
Alaska's state flag was designed by someone of this age.
13 years old
100
This is what Scuba stands for.
Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
100
This is how many individual pieces of wood a single violin is made from.
70.
100
The first carpentry tools that we have found have dated back to this long ago.
Over 400,000 years ago, with the tools likely belonging to an earlier form of human life.
100
This book is widely considered to be the first work of true science fiction.
Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein.
200
This is the state sport of Alaska.
Dog mushing/ dog sled racing
200
Although it is deemed a very dangerous activity, the most common injury sustained in scuba diving is this.
A broken toe.
200
This popular pastime comes from this Japanese term meaning "Empty Orchestra".
Karaoke.
200
The longest living single tree in the world is the Great Basin bristlecone pine, which lives for this long.
Over 5,000 years.
200
The annual awards at the World Science Fiction Convention are called this.
The Hugos, named after prolific writer Hugo Gernsback who wrote the Amazing Stories collections of books, which was the first science fiction series.
300
This is the average number of people per square mile in Alaska (the population density).
One person per square mile. If Manhattan, New York, had the same population density as Alaska, only 16 people would be living on the island.
300
On average, this is how many calories your body burns per hour while scuba diving.
600 calories per hour, due to the pressure combined with the heat loss.
300
Within a grand piano, this is how much force the 230 strings exerting onto the frame.
Over 20 metric tons of force.
300
The worlds shortest tree is the dwarf willow, which grows to this astounding height.
3 inches.
300
In Jules Verne's book From the Earth to the Moon (1865), people traveled between planets using this unusual method.
Cannons.
400
This is the proportion of Alaska that is contained within the Artic Circle.
1/3 of Alaska is within the Artic Circle
400
This is the world record for longest time spent underwater while scuba diving, in hours.
192 hours.
400
The most expensive opera costume ever was made in 1895, costing this much in todays money.
40 million dollars due to the 3,700 individually sewn diamonds encrusted onto it.
400
Most ancient wood glues were made from this.
Boiled animal bones combined with starch.
400
Author Arthur C. Clarke drew inspirations for his fantastical alien landscapes from this hobby of his.
Scuba diving.
500
This was the year that the US bought Alaska from Russia.
1898
500
This is the deepest dive ever performed with scuba equipment.
1090 feet underwater, taking 15 minutes to get down and over 13 hours to get back up.
500
Richard Wagner's most famous operas, known as the Ring Cycle, would last this long when played through.
15 hours long, which is equivalent to watching Waiting for Guffman eleven times.
500
The terms "hardwood" and "softwood" don't actually refer to the density of the wood itself, instead are a classification of this.
The type of tree the wood came from. Hardwood comes from deciduous trees and softwood comes from coniferous.
500
This is the name of the main character in the first book of the Levithan Wakes series by James S.A. Corey.
James Holden
Holden Deez' Nuts