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FACTS & FIGURES
TEAMS' RETIRED JERSEYS
RUSSIAN HISTORY
CARL SAGAN
BILLIONS & BILLIONS
200
'World production of this is now 84 million barrels a day, up about 10 million barrels from 1997'
oil
200
'Bob Cousy's 14 & John Havlicek's 17 were honored by this storied franchise'
the Boston Celtics
200
'In a 1917 speech in Russia, he said, "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist Order"'
Lenin
200
'From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school'
Cornell
200
'In 1960, this number, the GDP, for the U.S. was $526 billion; in 1970, almost twice that'
the gross domestic product
400
'With a pair of dice, the chances of throwing one of these 2 numerical sums are one in 36'
a 2 or a 12
400
'This team retired Ray Nitschke's 66 & Reggie White's 92'
the Green Bay Packers
400
'Wanting to Westernize Russia, Czar Peter the Great moved the capital west to this city in 1712'
St. Petersburg
400
'It was Sagan's award-winning PBS TV show about the universe'
Cosmos
400
'In 1980 Jimmy Carter signed a bill giving this auto company $1.5 billion in loan guarantees'
Chrysler
600
'Due partly to a policy of its govt., in 2005 this country led the world in foreign babies adopted by Americans'
China
600
'Willie Stargell's No. 8 will be worn by no other player on this team'
the (Pittsburgh) Pirates
600
'In the 1854 Battle of Inkerman during this war, the Russians attacked the British during a dense morning fog'
the Crimean War
600
'Sagan penned the novel upon which this Jodie Foster film was based, though he didn't live to see the film released'
Contact
600
'Begun in 1960, the construction of this "high" dam on the Nile cost about $1 billion'
the Aswan
800
'For a plane traveling 725 mph at 40,000 feet, this number is 1.1'
Mach
800
'This team for which Gordie Howe played 25 seasons retired his number 9'
the Detroit Red Wings
800
'Claiming to be the son of Ivan IV, the pretender to the Russian throne in 1604 was known as the False this'
Dmitri
800
'Sagan was co-author of the first scientific paper to predict that this weather condition would follow atomic war'
nuclear winter
800
'It's used to indicate the speed of a computer operation; one billion of them make up a second'
a nanosecond
1000
'The U.N. estimates there are about 8.4 million of these, including 1.9 million from Afghanistan'
refugees
1000
'This team for which Bobby Hull played 15 seasons retired his number 9'
the Chicago Blackhawks
1000
'Boris Godunov's death in 1605 brought on the age in Russian history known as the "Time of" these'
Troubles
1000
'Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life'
water (an ocean)
1000
'Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations'
the Franco-Prussian War