200 matches

3/85Rank, among situations that make adults anxious, of being at a party with strangers: 1

    During the rest of the year: 3

10/85Percentage of Americans who say Monday is their favorite day of the week: 3

    Who say Tuesday is: 1

9/91Percentage of Americans who when asked to name their favorite day of the week say they “dislike them all”: 3

2/98Percentage of Americans who believe that “everyone is their own god”: 3

12/02Fee that Sprint PCS charges its “credit-challenged” customers each time they speak with a live representative: $3

7/03Number of the three states that have canceled their 2004 primaries whose legislatures are GOP-controlled: 3

6/86Estimated percentage of diplomas that are printed on sheepskin: 3

8/86Episodes of Perry Mason currently in production: 3

3/87Percentage of parents who request that their children be excused from sex-education classes: 3

    Number of people killed by other people: 2

12/87Life expectancy of a worker ant (in months): 3

3/88Average number of attempts a Mexican makes before successfully crossing the U.S. border and landing a job: 3

7/88Number of Soviets in Petrozavodsk who were crushed to death in liquor-store lines last year: 3

8/88Number of times George Bush called Ted Koppel “Dan” during his June appearance on Nightline: 3

11/88Ratio of television sets produced to babies born each year in the United States: 3:1

11/88Average number of golf games Dan Quayle played each week last year: 3

12/88Number of years by which an American president is likely to fall short of his life expectancy: 3

2/89Rank of Brazil, among all countries, in the number of reported AIDS cases: 3

6/89Government-approved dowry for a bride in Rwanda, in garden hoes: 3

7/89Number of butterfly parks in the United States: 3

8/89Number of times that Dan Quayle has accidentally hit the Secret Service emergency button under his desk: 3

10/89Number of the 3 clubs from which Lloyd Bentsen resigned during the 1988 campaign that he has since rejoined: 3

1/90Number of times God was thanked in acceptance speeches at the Academy Awards in 1989: 1

    Number of times Michael Ovitz was thanked: 3

1/90Number of days in prison to which Zsa Zsa Gabor was sentenced in 1989 for slapping a police officer: 3

3/90Estimated number of pounces it takes a cat to catch a rodent: 3

4/90Number of months after the Pentagon bought 80,000 camouflage helmet-covers that it found 80,000 in storage: 3

6/90Number of the ten largest environmental magazines that are printed on recycled paper: 3

7/90Total number of hours each school day the children of the president of Mexico spend learning Japanese: 3

7/90Number of uninterrupted hours a Boston girl played Nintendo before having an epileptic seizure: 3

7/90Number of times George Bush telephoned Gloria Estefan during her stay in the hospital in March: 3

11/90Number of public telephones Southwestern Bell has installed this year that can be used while on horseback: 3

    Number that can be used while seated in a golf cart: 1

2/91Number of months Nikita Khrushchev’s son, Sergei, spent as a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics last fall: 3

4/91Percentage of TV evening-news coverage of the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1970 that depicted casualties in battle: 3

6/91Average number of American farmers who die from asphyxiation in manure pits each year: 3

10/91Number of the last four U.S. recessions that were interrupted by a brief economic recovery: 3

11/91Percentage increase during the first three years of the Bush Administration: 3

11/91Number of cellular phones checked in the cloakroom by patrons each week at Le Cirque, the Manhattan restaurant: 3

12/91Rank of Senator Tom Harkin, among congressional recipients of pro-Israel PAC funds last year: 3

1/92Ratio of the number of Chinese who will watch the Super Bowl this year to the number of Americans who will: 3:1

1/92Liters of beer an escaped circus bear in the Ukraine drank in the Kharkov town square before being recaptured: 3

5/92Rank of Arkansas, among states where the most toxins are released into the water each year, per capita: 3

7/92Ratio of donations made to the Democratic Party by corporations to donations made by labor unions: 3:1

10/92Number of the five U.S. Olympic basketball team members pictured on Kellogg’s cereal boxes who are white: 3

12/92Weekly church services a Kentucky man must attend until 1997 as part of his sentence for growing marijuana: 3

2/93Years after winning a $3 million state lottery that a Los Angeles man was arrested for receiving looted merchandise: 3

3/93Number of Ronald Reagan’s three major tax bills that Lloyd Bentsen voted for: 3

3/93Number of English-language newspapers published in Prague: 3

3/93Number of times a West Virginia man accidentally shot himself in the foot while cleaning his three guns last fall: 3

3/93Ratio of the number of U.S. radio stations that play country music to those playing Billboard’s top 40: 3:1

9/93Average number of cars per registered driver in Kuwait: 3

9/93Number of different kinds of refrigerator magnets sold at the Dan Quayle Center gift shop, in Huntington, Indiana: 3

10/93Number of U.S. doctors whose surname is Nurse: 3

11/93Ratio of the average alcohol consumption of a college fraternity-house resident to that of a male college student: 3:1

11/93Ratio of the number of Americans who prefer toilet paper to unroll off the top to those who prefer the bottom: 3:1

12/93Number of Taco Bell outlets in Mexico City: 3

12/93Percentage of all murder victims in Miami this year who were tourists: 3

1/94Rounds it took 16-year-old Dallas Malloy to win the first official women’s amateur boxing match, held last fall: 3

1/94Extra points kicked by a Virginia high school football player last fall after being elected Homecoming Queen at halftime: 3

2/94Ratio of the incidence of intentional head-banging among infant boys to the incidence among infant girls: 3:1

5/94Ratio of positive to negative calls viewers made to ABC last March after the “lesbian kiss” episode of Roseanne: 3:1

6/94Ratio of the size of the staff at the U.S. embassy in Paris to the size of the staff at the U.S. embassy in Beijing: 3:1

7/94Number of Coney Island rides that have been designated New York City historical landmarks: 3

8/94Percentage of the 15,500 US. soldiers killed since 1979 whose deaths were combat-related: 3

9/94Ratio of Internet posts to “alt.fan.oj-simpson.drive.faster” to posts to “alt.fan.oj-simpson.die.die.die” last June 20-21: 3:1

9/94Number of Mexico’s four largest exporters that are owned by U.S. companies: 3

10/94Ratio of contributions made to the Democratic Party since 1990 by Judith Krantz to those made by Jane Fonda: 3:1

11/94Percentage of Americans who believe that killing a doctor who performs abortions is a “justifiable act”: 3

12/94Hours of psychotherapy California’s Contra Costa County exchanged for each handgun turned in this year: 3

1/95Number of insect species that entomologists have named after cartoonist Gary Larson: 3

6/95Factor by which Harvard’s admission rate for alumni children exceeds that for other qualified applicants: 3

7/95Number of the first five presidents of the United States who died on the Fourth of July: 3

8/95Number of viewers who called CBS during Connie Chung’s coverage of the Oklahoma bombing to ask if Dan Rather was dead: 3

8/95Ratio of the amount of oil spilled near Usinsk, Russia, since last August to that spilled by the Exxon Valdez: 3:1

10/95Number of years ago the executive news producer of NBC’s New York City station was producing Howard Stern’s TV show: 3

1/96Ratio of Americans who can name the Three Stooges to those who can name three Supreme Court justices: 3:1

2/96Number of bloodhounds used by House Democrats last fall to “trail Republicans” holding a closed budget meeting: 3

4/96Number of convicted felons who won election as county sheriff last year in Mississippi: 3

4/96Ratio of the price per ounce of Che Guevara beer to that of a beer named after indicted securities trader Nicholas Leeson: 3:1

7/96Number of Elvis impersonators the Olympic Committee has hired to entertain in the Olympic village: 3

    Number she has devoted to Barney’s clothing store: 3

8/96Ratio of civilians killed this year by the Israeli Army in Lebanon to those killed by terrorists in Israel: 3:1

9/96Number of radio stations that offered Chelsea Clinton a car for her sixteenth birthday last February: 3

10/96Number of times Jack Kemp has seen the musical Les Misérables: 3

10/96Percentage of Americans who would rather have Richard Nixon back in the White House than any other president: 3

12/96Number of times California has prosecuted Ubiquitous Perpetuity God, formerly Enrique Silberg, for indecent exposure: 3

1/97Number of states that forbid HMOs from offering doctors financial incentives to restrict treatment to their patients: 3

6/97Number of years since 1950 in which the U.S. Forest Service timber program has not operated at a loss: 3

6/97Number of years the editor of Divorce Magazine spent working at Wedding Bells magazine: 3

9/97Ratio of Americans who oppose NAFTA expansion to the number who voted for Bill Clinton last year: 3:1

10/97Average number of acres added to Las Vegas each day: 3

11/97Number of U.S. interceptor jets sent into Bosnian airspace in September to block “anti-NATO” broadcasts: 3

1/98Ratio of TV viewers who watched a 1973 Elvis Presley concert to those who watched the 1969 moon landing: 3:1

2/98Number of years that Julia Child was employed by a U.S. intelligence agency: 3

2/98Factor by which male readership of Sports Illustrated increases for the swimsuit edition: 2

    Factor by which female readership does: 3

3/98Number of China’s four largest banks that are insolvent: 3

4/98Minimum distance, in feet, that Orlando beggars must maintain from those they ask for money: 3

5/98Number of New York City pedestrians splattered with blood last winter after a suicide’s 17-story jump: 3

5/98Number of weeks after the Monica Lewinsky story broke that a Denver company began selling “presidential kneepads”: 3

6/98Ratio of California prison jobs created between 1984 and 1994 to state jobs in higher education cut during that time: 3:1

11/98Number of heart attacks on Wall Street the day the market dropped 513 points last August: 2

    Number of heart attacks there the next day, when the market rose 288 points: 3

4/99Maximum number of pages of tax forms an American was required to fill out in 1913: 3

    Number of pages of instructions provided: 1

6/99Number of Kiss concerts that the band has postponed in Russia due to the country’s instability and anti-American mood: 3

7/99Factor by which the size of the ozone hole over Antarctica now exceeds the size of the continental U.S.: 3

9/99Number of death sentences upheld by Texas courts since 1990 for men whose lawyers slept during their trials: 3

10/99Ratio of daily queries on burial at sea received by the Coast Guard last August to those received a year earlier: 3:1

10/99Number of federal candidates publicly declared to have “crossed a Rubicon” while campaigning this year: 3

    Number of contestants who vied there for the title of 1999 Hobo King: 3

2/00Factor by which the pregnancy-related death rate among African-American women exceeds that of white women: 3

2/00Chance that a drug user holds a full-time job, according to a federal study released last year: 7 in 10

    Months after George W. Bush became a candidate last year that the study was released: 3

6/00Hours of cooking required to remove the “toxins” from tomatoes, according to an 1860 women’s magazine: 3

8/00Number of months last spring that a Louisiana town’s sewage lines were connected to its fresh water supply: 3

8/00Ratio of the number of corporate mergers signed under the Clinton Administration to those signed under Reagan: 3:1

8/00Ratio of the number of words for the color blue in Maya to the number in Spanish: 3:1

9/00Ratio of Motorola’s commercial sales in China last year to the value of its U.S. defense contracts: 3:1

9/00Factor by which homeowners’ deductions claimed by Americans last year exceed the budget of HUD: 3

10/00Minimum number of months required for a lame duck to fully recover: 3

11/00Number of Mohegan words that are a variant of “wampum,” meaning “ spiritual reparation”: 3

12/00Factor by which the number of sovereign countries today exceeds the number in 1945: 3

2/01Number of Hooters girls who visited a teenage leukemia patient in a Philadelphia hospital last fall at his request: 3

2/01Number of times a Floridian can be convicted of DUI before the infraction becomes a felony: 3

6/01Holes of golf that Japan’s prime minister played after learning of February’s fatal collision of a fishing boat and a U.S. sub: 3

6/01Ratio of per capita Ritalin use in Vermont to per capita use in California: 3:1

6/01Percentage of the United States’ 77,000 dams that are equipped with hydroelectric generating stations: 3

8/01Price of “Invisible Jim,” an empty doll-shaped package, from a U.S. toy manufacturer: $3

9/01Ratio of the average time it takes a male cardinal to learn a song to the time it takes a female: 3:1

9/01Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device: 3

4/02Ratio of the President’s proposed increase in U.S. military spending to China’s total military budget in 2000: 1:1

    Rank of China’s military budget among the world’s largest that year: 3

4/02Number of George H.W. Bush’s five adult grandchildren who have been arrested: 3

    Number who have been ticketed for sexual misconduct: 1

    Number who avoided charges after being forgiven by a girlfriend for breaking into her house: 1

5/02Number of New York City restaurants whose use of the term “Viagra” on the menu has been protested by Pfizer: 3

9/02Number of the September 11 hijackers whose entry visas came through a special U.S.-Saudi”Visa Express” program: 3

1/03Factor by which the number of Americans who have “tried to impersonate Elvis” exceeds the population of Tennessee: 3

6/03Days that AT&T ceased its TV advertising last March “out of respect for the U.S. military operation in Iraq: 3

    Days that it ceased its telemarketing: 1

8/03Number of students who have earned Emory University’s joint M.B.A./divinity degree since it was first offered in 1990: 3

    Number of inmates charged with drug trafficking for providing the vomit: 3

10/03Age at which a Missouri basketball prodigy was welcomed into “the Reebok family” last May: 3

10/03Number of Virginia Republican Party officials fined this year for eavesdropping on Democratic Party conference calls: 3

11/03Grams by which the amount of fat in McDonald’s fattiest salad exceeds that in its fattiest burger: 3

11/03Number of companies that control the U.S. voting-technology market: 3

11/03Percentage of the White House’s proposed Afghanistan spending in 2004 devoted to reconstruction: 3

11/03Years of study it took the EPA to conclude in August that it is not responsible for regulating CO2 emissions: 3

11/03Number of sequels to The Gods Must Be Crazy in which its star N!xau appeared before his death last July: 3

1/04Ratio of the first month’s sales of the new Elvis 2nd to None album to those of the last album released in Presley’s lifetime: 3:1

3/04Years required for the creation in 2002 of the first virus made from scratch with commercially available ingredients: 3

4/04Number of plaques bearing biblical verses that the Park Service reinstalled at the Grand Canyon last year: 3

7/04Weeks the Patriot Act allowed the government this year to delay the ACLU’s announcement of a suit over the Act itself: 3

8/04Rank of Labour among British political parties that won the most votes in local elections in June: 3

9/04Months after reporting missing radioactive spent fuel rods last April that a Vermont nuclear plant found them in a safe place: 3

10/04Number of banks robbed in Davenport, Iowa, while John Kerry and George Bush gave speeches there on August 4: 3

10/04Factor by which the number of U.S. girls under 19 who got breast implants last year exceeded the number who did in 2002: 3

12/04Number of times since 2002 the city has filed a shareholders’ resolution questioning the risk of doing business in Iran: 3

2/05Number of states where women seeking abortions are required to be told that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer: 3

    Number of the eighty-nine experts convened in 2003 by the National Cancer Institute who found any evidence of such a link: 1

3/05Number of times Italy’s judges have gone on strike since 2001: 3

3/05Microseconds by which December’s Indian Ocean earthquake permanently shortened the length of a day: 3

4/05Ratio of ultra-Orthodox jaywalkers in Israel to secular jaywalkers: 3:1

6/05Minimum number of newspapers in which Denmark posted ads this year seeking antiterrorist spies: 3

8/05Number of members of the Iraqi parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named Lucifer: 3

8/05Factor by which the expulsion rate in U.S. preschools last year exceeded the rate in grades K‒12: 3

1/06Number of plague-infected mice that a New Jersey biomedical research center says cannot be accounted for: 3

5/06Number of beetles that right-wing entomologists have named after Bush Administration officials: 3

10/06Factor by which the jobless rate among veterans under 25 of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars exceeds the U.S. average: 3

10/06Hours after the start of its war against Hezbollah that Israel’s army chief sold $32,000 of his stock holdings: 3

11/06Factor by which the average noise level underwater in the ocean has increased since 1965: 3

1/07Number of different forms of copyright piracy a Boy Scout must identify to earn a “Respect Copyrights” merit patch: 3

4/07Number of times that the title of “world��s oldest person” changed hands in January: 3

4/07Number of the world’s top ten English-language Scrabble players who are not native English speakers: 3

10/07Number of kernels of corn it takes to make the corn syrup used in one kernel of candy corn: 3

12/07Number of the world’s five most valuable companies last year that were Chinese: 0

    Number this year: 3

2/08Number of the three Israeli-Palestinian peace summits since 1979 that were held in the last two years of a U.S. presidency: 3

5/08Minimum number of world nations that had government websites taken over by cybersquatters last year: 3

5/08Factor by which an uninsured American is more likely than an insured one to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer: 3

5/08Days of “heartache leave” that employees of one Japanese cosmetics company are allowed to take each year: 3

6/08Minimum number of Italian parliamentarians from Silvio Berlusconi’s party who are former TV showgirls: 3

8/08Number of Texas school districts that keep track of truants with electronic monitoring devices: 3

9/08Minutes that Minneapolis drivers can legally idle while not in traffic, per a new city ordinance: 3

3/09Minimum number of nations that currently have plans to build a Ferris wheel larger than the current record holder: 3

7/04Average inches by which a British man’s height fell short of an American man’s in the eighteenth century: 3.1

    Average inches by which an American man’s height falls short of a British man’s today: 0.4

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