Here is a brand new quiz and it is all about numbers.
“Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can’t buy
That’s true love and home grown tomatoes.â€
John Denver, ‘Home Grown Tomatoes’
(from a song written by Guy Clark)
1) One acre of grapes can produce about of how many glasses of wine?
2) One bushel of wheat can produce about how many pounds of pasta?
3) How much does one gallon of milk weigh?
4) How many pounds of mustard are consumed worldwide each year?
5) How fast can pigs run?
6) How fast can swordfish swim?
7) About what percentage of grapefruit are used to make juice?
8) How many kernels are on the average ear of corn?
9) How many tons of snails do the French consume each year?
10) How many olive trees are there in Europe? How many in California?
11) How many bubbles are in a bottle of Champagne?
12) How many poppy seeds are there in 1 pound?
13) How many days does it take for a turkey egg to hatch?
14) How many pounds of celery are grown in the U.S. each year?
15) What percentage of Americans say they eat ice cream in the bathtub?
16) What percentage of the Florida orange crop is used to make orange juice?
17) How much methane gas does a cow burp each day?
18) How many rolls of Lifesavers candy are produced each year?
19) What was the hog population in Iowa in 2010?
20) How many peanuts does it take to make a 12 ounce jar of peanut butter?
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ANSWERS
1) One acre of grapes can produce an average of about 15,000 glasses of wine.
2) One bushel of wheat makes about 42 pounds of pasta.
3) One gallon of milk weighs 8.6 lbs.
4) Over 700 million pounds of mustard are consumed worldwide each year.
5) Pigs can run about 7 miles an hour.
6) Swordfish can swim up to 60 mph, one of the fastest fish known.
7) Roughly 40 percent of the grapefruit harvested each season are used for juice while 60 percent are sold as fresh grapefruit.
8) The average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
9) The French consume 40,000 metric tons of snails each year.
10) There are 500 million olive trees in Europe, and 50 million in California.
11) There are about 49 million bubbles in a 750ml bottle of champagne.
12) There are some 900,000 poppy seeds to the pound.
13) Turkey eggs take 28 days to hatch.
14) About 2 billion pounds of celery are grown each year in the U.S.
15) 3% of Americans say they eat ice cream in the bathtub, 19% say they eat ice cream in bed.
16) About 90 percent of the Florida orange crop is used to make orange juice.
17) An average cow burps 600 pints of methane gas per day.
18) Approximately 548 million rolls of Lifesavers candy are produced each year.
19) Iowa was home to 18.9 million hogs and pigs as of March 1, 2010, more than 25% of the U.S. total.
20) It takes about 550 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of creamy peanut butter.
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