5/84Percentage of American women who use deodorant: 89
Of American men: 75
8/86Percentage of Australian business executives who say the Japanese are untrustworthy and unethical: 89
6/88Ratio of unexploded grenades, artillery shells, and land mines to sheep in the Falkland Islands: 1:4
To people: 89:1
12/90Winning distance in a guitar-throwing contest held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last July, in feet: 89
1/93Percentage of Super Bowl viewers who do not live in the United States: 89
8/95Number of the bombing victims whose families have retained the services of defense attorney Johnnie Cochran: 89
5/96Percentage of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 89
3/99Percentage of the 2,397 surveillance cameras monitoring public spaces in New York City that are privately owned: 89
11/04Percentage of judges nominated by George W. Bush since 2000 who have been confirmed by the Senate: 89
7/05Number of previous baseball seasons that Washington, D.C., fielded a professional team: 89
Chances that it had a losing record: 4 in 5
9/87Percentage of the members of the Texas Restaurant Association that serve chicken-fried steak: 90
12/87Number of direct-mail solicitations sent to Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond this year: 90
3/89Percentage of the U.S. hazardous waste shipped abroad that goes to Canada: 90
5/89Percentage of Nightline programs about terrorism, broadcast since 1985, that dealt with the Middle East: 90
Percentage of international acts of terrorism since 1985 that took place in the Middle East: 43
Percentage of bird species that are: 90
1/90Number of congressional votes dealing with Nicaragua that have taken place since 1980: 90
7/92Percentage by which Boris Yeltsin increased Russian Army officers’ salaries in February: 90
4/94Percentage of editors of U.S. daily newspapers who say that an advertiser has tried to influence their content: 90
Percentage who say the advertiser was successful: 37
7/94Number of American Indian tribes that own a casino license: 90
1/96Estimated percentage of all U.S. television cartoon programs that are drawn in Asia: 90
9/96Price a Paris boutique charges for an ounce of Yin Shen White Tea, “hand-picked by Chinese virgins”: $90
4/97Number of Texas high school basketball coaches ejected from games last year for “unsporting behavior”: 90
1/99Percentage of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s one-page biography of Chile’s Augusto Pinochet that is classified: 90
5/99Percentage of the 125 people included in 1999’s Flemings Who’s Who in Central Banking who list no “leisure pursuits”: 90
11/99Percentage of turkeys tested by the Agriculture Department in 1996 and 1997 that were infected by campylobacteria: 90
Rank of campylobacteria among the most common bacterial causes of diarrheal illness in the U.S.: 1
10/00Percentage by which 11 million unexplained lobster deaths reduced Long Island Sound’s lobster harvest last fall: 90
11/00Number of Native Americans sought by a Pilgrim descendants’ group this year to re-create the first Thanksgiving: 90
3/01Average number of messages to kidnapped friends and relatives broadcast each week by a Colombian radio show: 90
3/01Percentage of life that is “just holding on,” according to Bill Clinton: 90
7/01Estimated percentage of Mexico’s thirty major newspapers that would fold without government subsidies: 90
10/02Number of traffic tickets issued in July by British Columbia police officers posing as squeegee men: 90
5/06Percentage alcohol content in a 300-year-old whiskey recipe being revived by a Scottish distillery: 90
12/06Cost, in one Mexican town, of a six-hour tour “full of obstacles and persecution” across a mock U.S.-Mexico border: $14
Estimated percentage of the town’s population that has illegally crossed the real border: 90
Number shot by themselves or other officers: 68
11/07Estimated percentage of women’s college sports teams that were coached by women when Title IX was enacted in 1972: 90
Percentage today: 42
2/08Number of the 195 accredited U.S. law schools that offer courses in animal law: 90
Number that failed during the past three years: 3
11/08Minimum number of reporters who traveled to Wasilla, Alaska, in the two weeks following Sarah Palin’s selection as VP: 90
3/84Nations where Dallas appears on television: 91
1/91Percentage of Americans who say the group with too little influence in government is people like themselves: 91
1/00Percentage of the world’s land that was claimed by centralized sovereign governments in 1500: 21
Percentage today: 91
10/87Percentage of the U.S. passenger-airline business controlled by the top eight companies in 1978: 81
Percentage controlled by the top eight companies today: 91
Ratio today: 91:1
8/92Percentage change, since 1990, in the number of documented cases of journalists murdered, worldwide: +91
9/93Percentage of the time that Ruth Bader Ginsberg voted with Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Court of Appeals: 91
12/99Number of countries that have not made public their assessment of the Y2K readiness of their computer systems: 91
4/00Minimum number of laws passed in Peru since 1992 that violate at least one article of the country’s constitution: 91
5/03Average number of industrial compounds and pollutants that can be found in an American’s blood and urine: 91
4/08Rank that next year’s giving goal of Bill Gates’s foundation would hold on the Forbes 400 if it were a person: 91
5/08Percentage of all articles about Muslims in national British newspapers last year that were negative: 91
6/84Percentage of baseball players signed to professional contracts who never appear in a major league game: 92
10/84Percentage of Geraldine Ferraro’s votes in Congress in 1983 that supported the Democratic Party leadership: 92
Percentage of the average House Democrat’s votes that did: 76
12/89Number of times Al Neuharth uses the term S.O.B. in his autobiography, Confessions of an S.O.B.: 92
9/91Number of the 100 buttock implants performed in the United States last year that were done in California: 92
10/93Average amount a U.S. funeral parlor charges for makeup and hairstyling, per customer: $92
5/94Percentage of U.S. federal judges who oppose mandatory minimum sentencing: 92
10/99Value of Pentagon-brokered U.S. arms sales last year to Taiwan, expressed as a percentage of such sales to Israel: 92
2/00Percentage of New Yorkers who say they have already decided which Senate candidate to vote for in November: 92
3/00Percentage of the WTO protesters arrested in Seattle last year whose charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence: 92
3/00Percentage of the residents of Northern Ireland who report being happy: 92
1/01Percentage of FDA advisory meetings since 1998 in which at least one attendee had a financial conflict of interest: 92
4/01Percentage of U.S. nuclear power plants operating in 1996 that have since broken federal safety regulations: 92
10/02Number of teenagers enrolled last summer in Secure Corps, a “homeland security training” camp in Pennsylvania: 92
12/02Minutes that service on two New York subway lines was halted this fall after a Sikh worker was seen emerging from a hatch: 92
9/07Days by which the average length of the western U.S. wildfire season since 2000 has exceeded that in the 1970s: 92
12/07Number of lap dancers whose tips and menstrual cycles were tracked by a recent University of New Mexico study: 18
Percentage by which a dancer’s tips during fertile days exceeded those during menstruation: 92
1/09Number of U.S. cities and towns that have passed resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush: 92
7/85Percentage of the U.S. pencil market supplied by domestic manufacturers: 93
4/88Percentage of West Bank Palestinians who said in 1986 that violence is justified in pursuit of their cause: 87
4/88Number of “obscenity specialists” employed by the Department of Justice: 93
2/93Percentage change, since 1982, in the number of juveniles arrested for homicide in the United States: +93
2/94Number of animals a Moscow circus left on a Japanese dock in 1992 to make room on its ship for newly bought cars: 93
Percentage of budget cuts to entitlements made by the 104th Congress that will come from those programs: 93
11/97Average percentage of teenagers in the world’s 44 largest countries who recognize the Chicago Bulls logo: 93
10/00Percentage of House votes cast by Dick Cheney and Al Gore on abortion between 1979 and 1984 that were the same: 93
4/03Number of pharmaceutical drugs approved by the FDA since 1998 whose names begin with V, W, X, Y, or Z: 93
2/06Percentage change since 2000 in the average amount U.S. workers spend on out-of-pocket medical expenses: +93
5/06Percentage of U.S. megachurches that “always” or “often” use electric guitar or bass in services: 93
7/08Number of Kenya’s 210 members of parliament who have been given cabinet positions in the new administration: 93
Percentage he says he actually got, before he “falsified” the number to make it acceptable to Europe: 93.5
10/85Percentage of women executives with MBAs who say their pregnancies were planned: 93.8
Percentage of other women executives who say this: 73.3
8/95Estimated number of killings in True Lies, a film Bob Dole cited in March as among those “most friendly to the family”: 94
Amount of the $21,000 in contributions Bob Dole has received from Time Warner since 1987 that he plans to return: 0
Minutes of airtime C-SPAN devoted in June to a National Press Club discussion of Dole by Siskel and Ebert: 64
8/97Letters of complaint elicited by a Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode in which she supports evolution: 80
Letters of complaint the show received about an episode in which her son goes camping with Walt Whitman: 94
8/04Minimum number of developing countries whose adolescent birth rate is lower than that of Phillips County, Arkansas: 94
11/07Number of students whose pre- and post-Thanksgiving weights were measured for a 2006 University of Oklahoma study: 94
Factor by which the average weight gain of the graduate students exceeded that of the undergraduates: 2
2/09Percentage of Americans who say they would not buy a car from an automaker in bankruptcy: 94
Chances that a nation with known stockpiles of cluster bombs did: 2 in 5
2/04Percentage of lawsuits decided last year under the Americans with Disabilities Act that were won by employers: 94.5
7/88Percentage of all ice cream consumed by Muscovites that is vanilla: 95
8/88Price of an Al-Asr Prayer Watch, which indicates the direction of Mecca and five daily Muslim prayer times: $95
9/94Percentage of the World Bank’s employees who work in Washington, D.C.: 95
1/98Percentage change since 1982 in the average amount of time an American is delayed by traffic congestion: +95
4/98Amount that the Paula Jones Legal Fund has spent since 1994 on “pet care” for a dog named Mitzie: $95
5/00Percentage of all aquatic life in a Danube tributary killed last winter when a mine’s tailings dam overflowed: 95
9/01Number of U.S. schools that use E-rater, a software program that reads and grades student essays: 95
2/02Percentage of all U.S. prescription-drug mass-media advertising in 2000 that was accounted for by 50 drugs: 95
11/02Percentage of Argentineans who say they have “no” or “little” confidence in their nation’s political parties: 95
3/08Percentage of U.S. doctors who say they have a responsibility to report another doctor’s malpractice: 95
Percentage of these doctors who have witnessed malpractice in the past three years and failed to report it: 46
2/88Percentage of first-class mail that is delivered on time, according to the U.S. Postal Service: 96
12/95Percentage change since 1990 in hours of counseling required by L.A. police employees and their families: +96
3/85Percentage of all coronary-artery bypasses in the United States that are performed on whites: 97
5/01Percentage of Americans who believe that “following your own conscience” is a mark of a strong character: 97
Percentage who believe that “obeying those in positions of authority” is: 92
9/92Number of people detained in South Africa this year for participating in “suspicious public gatherings”: 97
4/07Percentage of American adults held in either prisons or mental institutions in 1953 and today, respectively: 0.67, 0.68
Percentage of these adults in 1953 who were in mental institutions: 75
2/08Minimum number of U.S. Boy Scout or Cub Scout troops that are sponsored by Islamic organizations: 97
4/84Percentage of Americans too young to remember the Bicentennial: 25
Life before television: 69
4/86Number of spacecraft launched by the United States in 1985: 17
12/90Percentage of all hostages held by Iraq who are from Third World countries: 98
12/92Value of the securities traded between Americans and foreigners last year, expressed as a percentage of the U.S. GNP: 98
7/95Number of years Jeanne Louise Calment, France’s oldest woman, smoked cigarettes before she quit in 1993: 98
5/02Estimated percentage of matter in the universe determined this year to be invisible: 98
12/03Percentage of Baghdad’s citizens asked to participate in a Gallup poll last September who agreed to do so: 98
Average percentage of Americans asked to participate in Gallup polls who do: 40
12/03Average price paid per metric ton last September at the first U.S. auction of carbon-emission allowances: 98¢
9/04Height in feet of a bronze September 11 memorial depicting a giant teardrop to be built in Jersey City, New Jersey: 98
9/07Projected cost to Medicare in 2030 of treating dementia, expressed as a percentage of the program’s total budget today: 98
1/09Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98
12/91Percentage of annual U.S. economic aid to Israel that is used to pay debts to the United States: 99
8/94Percentage of Richard Nixon’s White House tapes that have not yet been made public: 99
1/00Percentage of the 14,000 Bulgar survivors of the 1014 battle at Kleidion who were blinded by the victorious Byzantines: 99
9/02Percentage of students in Cleveland’s six-year-old school voucher program who attend religious schools: 99
6/03Percentage “improvement” that Minnesota senator Norm Coleman claims to be over the late Paul Wellstone: 99
8/06Price, from a North Carolina company, for a charcoal-filled seat cushion that absorbs the odor of flatulence: $21.95
Percentage of the odor that the cushion absorbs, according to an outside study: 20
2/91Percentage of Americans who say, “I can’t tell a joke to save my life”: 99.2
Percentage brought to trial who are convicted: 99.9
10/84Percentage increase in the number of cop shows in prime time since last season: 100
12/84Percentage increase, from the mid-1970s to today, in the number of résumés received each year by the CIA: 100
7/85Percentage increase since 1980 in political contributions by the top 20 defense contractors: 100
6/86Number of pornographic videocassettes released each week: 100
8/86Amount Nancy Reagan’s hairdresser charges for a haircut: $100
4/87Estimated number of referees at children’s sporting events who are attacked each year by parents: 100
5/87Percentage change, since 1965, in the number of Americans who have gone bird watching in the last year: +100
6/89Daily wage a French company paid U.S. volunteers in 1988 to pick sprayed crops to test pesticides’ effects: $100
2/90Percentage change, since 1974, in the amount of commercial air traffic in the United States: +100
Percentage change, since 1974, in the number of commercial airports in the United States: 0
2/90Estimated number of valentines mailed to Elvis Presley at Graceland last year: 100
4/90Average amount an American who lives in a state that has a lottery spends each year on tickets: $100
5/90Maximum amount Ted Turner fines his employees for using the word foreign instead of international on company time: $100
7/90Amount of trash left in New York City’s Central Park by people attending Earth Day festivities, in tons: 100
2/91Percentage increase, since 1989, in the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations of Boston College students: 100
2/91Number of false noses used by Gerard Depardieu during the filming of Cyrano de Bergerac: 100
3/91Cash prize awarded by a St. Petersburg, Florida, bar to the winner of its weekly Fake the Big O Contest: $100
12/91Percentage change, since last year, in sales of junk bonds in the United States: +100
4/92Percentage of Japanese graduating high-school seniors who have taken at least six years of English-language classes: 100
5/92Number of days last year that Denmark’s largest newspaper ran no political coverage to protest bad government: 100
5/92Number of “Desert Storm” and “Desert Shield” commercial trademarks filed with the U.S. Patent Office last year: 100