This is the Emergency Contact Number for JSC, SCTF and Elington field. It can also be dialed by cell phone with the area code (281).
What is 483-3333 or x3333?
100
This is the safest mode of transportation in the United States.
What is commercial aviation (flying)? (0.07 fatalities per billion passenger miles)
100
This is the best way to keep pipes from freezing in the winter.
What is trickle water in some or all of your faucets?
100
These are the two spiders in Texas that can give you medically-significant bites.
What are the black widow and the brown recluse?
100
The CDC recommends everyone older than this age get a flu shot.
What is six months?
200
Based on data from the Centers for Disease Control, this is the leading cause of death in the United States.
What is Heart Disease?
200
This is the most common fatal accidents involving trains.
What is auto and pedestrian collisions with trains NOT at grade crossings? (490 vs. 281 at grade crossings)
200
If you use a fireplace in the winter, this device is the best way to catch sparks or rolling logs.
What is a glass or metal screen?
200
If you are bitten by a spider and the symptons don't disappear within this many hours, see a doctor!
What is 24 hours?
200
Since 1976, to the nearest 10,000, what is the average number of people who die from the flu or flu-related illness each year.
What is 32,743?
300
Based on Data from the Centers for Disease Control, this is the second leading cause of death in the United States.
What is Cancer?
300
This is the percentage of automobile crashes (fatal and non fatal) linked to cell phone use in the United States. (within 5 percent).
What is 28?
300
This is the minimum distance flammable objects should be away from a space heater.
What is three feet?
300
Hives, shortness of breath, wheezing, cramps, weakness and rapid pulse are a sign of this type of reaction to a spider bite.
What is an allergic reaction (or anaphylaxis)?
300
This is the month the flu season usually starts.
What is October?
400
Rounded off to the nearest thousand, this is how many people die on Texas roadways every year.
What is 3000?
400
This is the number of times (within +/- 5) more likely you will be in a car accident (fatal or non fatal) if you drive with a Blood Alcohol Content of 0.10 percent.
What is 48?
400
If you become trapped in your vehicle in snow or extreme cold, this is the best strategy for surviving.
What is staying in your vehicle?
400
This is how much benefit home remedies have been shown to treat spider bites.
What is none?
400
Over the past 32 years, this is the month that flu activity usually peaked.
What is February?
500
This is the average life expectancy of a male in the United States (Answer within +/- one year).
What is 77.4?
500
If you cannot stop in time, this is the best way to avoid serious injury when a deer jumps out in front of your car.
What is hit the deer? Dont veer for the deer!
500
If you fall into freezing water (tempurature around 32 degrees Fareheit), this is the maximum expected time you should expect to remain conscious.
What is 15 minutes?
500
1-800-764-7661 is the phone number of this Texas network that you may need to contact in the event of a spider bite?
What is the Texas Poison Center network?
500
This is how many weeks after you get a flu shot that it takes for it to be effective.