What percentage of women say their Mom is their favourite parent?
A: 40
According to a Women’s Health magazine survey about women and their moms.
24% say they are “Daddy’s girls.” Nearly half of women say their mom is their best friend and the average woman talks to her mom once a week.
The record number of these for a man is 824. What?
A: Living descendants
At the time of his death in October 1992, Samuel S. Mast, aged 96, of Fryburg, Pennsylvania, had 824 living descendants – 11 children, 97 grandchildren, 634 great-grandchildren and 82 great-great-grandchildren.
This TV personality will clap their hands more than 700 times a week. Who is it?
A: Vanna White
According to her bio on wheeloffortune.com, Vanna will clap her hands more than 28,000 times in a year. She was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as television’s most frequent clapper in 1992.
The winner of Saturday’s Kentucky Derby gets 554 of these. What?
A: Roses
The tradition of roses at the Kentucky Derby dates back to 1883 and the winning horse has been draped with a garland of roses since at least 1896. The garland has 554 roses.
Nearly 15% of people worldwide believe this will happen in their lifetime. What?
A: The end of the world
Ipsos Reid surveyed more than 16,000 people in 21 countries and found 14% strongly or somewhat agreed that the world would come to an end in their lifetime.
9% of Canadians say the world will end this year (15th of the 21 countries surveyed).
The largest one in the world weighs almost 4 ounces (or just over 100 grams). The largest what?
A: Diamond
The Golden Jubilee is the largest faceted diamond in the world at just over 545 carats (3.8 oz/109 grams). It can be found with the crown jewels in the Royal Thai Palace.
Who are the only two actors to be nominated for an acting Academy Award every decade from the 60’s through the 2000’s?
A: Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine
Nicholson’s first nomination was for Five Easy Pieces in 1969, Caine’s came for Alfie in 1966.
