5/97Percentage of Minnesota counties reporting a “highly unusual number” of deformed frogs last year: 62

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (St. Paul)

7/03Number of Wisconsin accounting students given take-home tests to accommodate an Enron whistle-blower’s April speech: 78

Prof. John Eichenseher, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

    Number later found to have cheated: 40

Prof. John Eichenseher, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

7/04Last year in which French frogs were served at the Brotherhood of the Frog Thigh Tasters’ annual fair in Vittel, France: 1977

Comite de la grenouille (Vittel, France)

8/96Annual amount by which Wisconsin’s new mandatory workfare plan will outspend its old welfare budget: $102,000,000

Office of Wisconsin State Senator Gwendolyn Moore (Madison)

1/99Rank of the Budweiser frog TV-ad campaign, among the most popular commercials with children over the age of six: 1

Campbell Mithun Esty (Minneapolis)