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It's Sabrina's Beat the Wiz Quiz! Play along, and get the answers to past questions below.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Question: America has nearly 2300 of these -- that's twice as many as the second-leading country. What are they?
Answer: Olympic medals.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Question: The oldest one of these was created about 6000 years ago. What is it?
Answer: A beer ad. A clay tablet read, "Drink Elba Beer -- the beer with the heart of a lion!"
Friday, May 10, 2013
Question: Single middle class women spent an average of $730 on this last year, middle class men about $439. What is it?
Answer: Charitable Donations
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Question: 52 percent of Americans own at least one of these -- and that's an all time low. What is it?
Answer: A stock in the stock market
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Question: Twins are more than twice as likely to have this distinction as single-birth babies are. What is it?
Answer: Being left-handed
Monday, May 6, 2013
Question: About 55 percent of parents make sure their kids have one of these. What are they?
Answer: Library cards.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Question: Just over 63 percent of these end up going to men. What are they?
Answer: Speeding tickets.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Question: Americans use four million sick days per year on this. What is it?
Answer: Allergies
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Question: Although people say we don't use them as much as we used to, Americans bought 21 billion of these last year. What are they?
Answer: Postage stamps
Monday, April 29, 2013
Question: The typical parent will spend just over $1100 on this in 2013. What is it?
Answer: Prom
Friday, April 26, 2013
Question: Only about one of every 20 children do this, but by age 40, nearly half the population does. What is it?
Answer: Snore
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Question: 16 percent of Americans have exactly as much of this as they want. What is it?
Answer: Weight
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Question: 44 percent of workers say this makes them more productive, but only about six percent say it's bad for their productivity. What is it?
Answer: Leaving the office for a lunch break.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Question: Only about 17 percent of married women say they regularly do this for their spouse. What is it?
Answer: Pick up the check at a restaurant.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Question: About eight percent of new brides plan to do this -- down from 23 percent two decades ago. What is it?
Answer: Keep their last name instead of changing to their husband's.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Question: 14 percent of Americans give this a try at least once a week -- and two percent do it every day. What is it?
Answer: Buying lottery tickets
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Question: A recent survey shows that women say this is the sexiest thing a husband can do. What is it?
Answer: Take care of her when she's sick.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Question: About one in10 American men don't know this important date. What is it?
Answer: Their mother's birthday!
Friday, April 12, 2013
Question: One in three of us have made this fashion faux pas. What is it?
Answer: Forget to take off the price tag before wearing an item of clothing.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Question: About 205,000 American women hold this job, compared with about 950,000 men. What is it?
Answer: Active-duty military. The Air Force has the highest percentage of women, at about 25 percent.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Question: About 90 percent of us own one or more of these, but most of us use it three times a year or less. What is it?
Answer: The Bible
Friday, April 5, 2013
Question: Ronald Reagan was the only president to have one of these. What is it?
Answer: An ex-wife. The Gipper was the first, and so far, only, divorced prez.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Question: About 40 percent of American workers are happy when their co-workers do this -- another 20 percent are ticked off. What is it?
Answer: Stay home when they're actually sick.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Question: Jimmy Carter was the only president in the past 100 years who never did this. What is it?
Answer: Throw out the first pitch at a baseball game. William Howard Taft was the first to do it, and FDR did it the most.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Question: 16 percent of us say this is the main reason we use our cell phones. What is it?
Answer: Making phone calls
Friday, March 29, 2013
Question: One in five Americans don't do this "daily" task every day. One in 20 of us say we don't do it at all. What is it?
Answer: Make the bed
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Question: About one in 10 women have an extra one of these that they keep hidden from their spouse. What is it?
Answer: A Facebook account.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Question: People earning $20,000 or less per year spend more twice as much of their income on this as people making $200,000 or more do. What is it?
Answer: Charity
Monday, March 25, 2013
Question: 73 percent of women carry one of these around with them, versus about 60 percent of men. What is it?
Answer: A library card
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Question: The average person will spend 271 days of his or her life doing this. What is it?
Answer: Sitting on the toilet.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Question: 480 Americans took this job last year -- about 200 fewer than needed. What is it?
Answer: Catholic priest. Just over 700 are needed every year to keep up with demand.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Question: Americans bought about 4.5 million of these last year. That's four times as many as a decade ago -- but 98 percent fewer than three decades ago. What are they?
Answer: Vinyl record albums.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Question: More than one in four managers and bosses have done this in the past week. Only about 10 percent of lower-level workers did the same. What is it?
Answer: Work from home
Monday, March 4, 2013
Question: This problem cost the average American $818 last year. What is it?
Answer: Being stuck in traffic. That counts gas burned, lost productivity and increased maintenance.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Question: Almost 90 percent of us do this on a regular basis -- up from around 20 percent in 1983. What is it?
Answer: Wear a seat belt.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Question: John Tyler was the only U.S. president not to have one of these. What is it?
Answer: A political party.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Question: 22 percent of people say they've never had one of these -- which is a good thing! What are they?
Answer: Cavities.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Question: About 19,000 American women have eight or more of these. What are they?
Answer: Children.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Question: 70 percent of women say they'd break up with a boyfriend if he lied about this. What is it?
Answer: Debt. 55 percent say they'd dump a guy for too much debt even if he was honest about it.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Question: 44 percent of people say they'd like to get this for Valentine's Day. What is it?
Answer: A love note. Both guys and gals say this would make them happier than any other gift
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Question: We imported 448 of these from Ethiopia last year -- more than from any other country. What are they?
Answer: Adopted babies.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Question: The average American carries around about 50 of these with them every day. What are they?
Answer: Contacts in their cell phone.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Question: According to a recent survey, only about 11 percent of elementary school students can do this. What is it?
Answer: Read Roman numerals.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Question: 17 percent of us throw this away, and about 10 percent of us give it to our pets. What is it?
Answer: Leftover cereal milk
Monday, January 21, 2013
Question: The shortest one ever was two minutes long...but that was before the days of cable TV. What is it?
Answer: The inaugural address. George Washington clocked in at 120 seconds back in 1793.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Question: 57 percent of Americans pay someone to do this. The rest of us do it ourselves. What is it?
Answer: Complete an income tax form.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Question: One of these is stolen every 90 seconds in the U.S. What is it?
Answer: Shopping Carts
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Question: These are twice as big as they were 30 years ago, which is good news for American women. What are they?
Answer: Engagement rings.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Question: The average woman will do this about 6000 times in her lifetime. What is i
Answer: Step on a scale.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Question: One in 30 babies born in the U.S. last year will be able to say this -- when they learn to talk, that is. What is it?
Answer: They're part of a set of twins. That's 76 percent more twins than 20 years ago.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Question: 15 percent of Americans say they have one of these, but never use it. What is it?
Answer: A telephone land line. One of every three households now has no land line access at all.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Question: Most of us do this at least once a day -- and chances are, it lasts about five and a half seconds. What is it?
Answer: Yawn.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Question: Only three percent of women are willing to do this for their guys. What is it?
Answer: Leave the toilet seat up.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Question: The average woman does this 62 times a day. The average man only eight times. What is it?
Answer: Smile.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Question: Only three percent of Americans under 65 say they've done this. What is it?
Answer: Saved enough money to retire.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Question: Six percent of engaged men say they'd be willing to do this if their wife-to-be asked. What is it?
Answer: Change their last name to hers
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Question: You're most likely to do this if you live in Iowa, and least likely if you live in Nevada. What is it?
Answer: Graduate from high school. 89 percent of Iowans do it, but only 63 percent of folks from Nevada get a diploma.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Question: New Orleans residents are the best at this, San Franciscans the worst. What is it?
Answer: Tipping.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Question: One in five Americans do this online, but about half of us say we still prefer doing it face-to-face. What is it?
Answer: Giving a charitable donation. 52 percent of people say they prefer handing cash to a real live human who's collecting for charity.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Question: According to a recent survey, women in this profession are more likely to use a computer dating service. What profession is it?
Answer: Teacher
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Question: About 1.7 million Americans took part in this adventurous hobby last year. What is it?
Answer: Surfing.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Question: We'll go through about nine billion of these before the end of the year. What are they?
Answer: Candy corn! Yum :P
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Question: 26 percent of Americans say they don't have a single one of these. Most of us have three or four. What are they?
Answer: Credit Cards
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Question: 36 percent of Americans say they've done this in a store. What is it?
Answer: Haggle over a price.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Question: Dogs have 100 of these. What are they?
Answer: Facial Expressions
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Question: Only one in five women has one of these in her kitchen. What is it?
Answer: An apron
Monday, October 8, 2012
Question: This is the most commonly stolen item in the U.S. What is it
Answer: lipstick
Friday, October 5, 2012
Question: About 25 percent of us have been turned down trying to purchase one of these. What is it?
Answer: A drink
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Question: Americans lose nearly five million dollars per year by not doing this. What is it?
Answer: Getting change out of vending machines
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Question: Nearly nine in 10 women would do this favor if asked -- versus about two in three men. What is it?
Answer: Give up or move from an airplane seat for another passenger.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Question: The average guy will spend about $550 on this in 2012-- the average gal, just about $230. What is it?
Answer: Booze
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Question: The average person does this 22 times a day in the privacy of his or her own home. What is it?
Answer: Open the refrigerator door!
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Question: About nine percent of us say we've done this accidentally -- and most of us feel bad about it. What is it?
Answer: Take an item from a store without paying
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Question: Six percent of Americans say they do this every single day -- despite warnings that we need to cut down. What is it?
Answer: Eat at a fast food joint
Friday, September 14, 2012
Question: 23 percent of American women admit to crying after this experience. What is it?
Answer: A bad haircut.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Question: Ten million American families don't have one of these -- an increase of nearly a million since 2009. What are they?
Answer: Bank accounts.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Question: Ten million American families don't have one of these -- an increase of nearly a million since 2009. What are they?
Answer: Bank accounts.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Question: Americans go through 815-billion of these every day. What are they?
Answer: Calories
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Question: Two-thirds of men say this makes them more productive at work. 53 percent of women say the same thing makes them less productive. What is it?
Answer: Being in a relationship.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Question: Nine percent of Americans have visited one of these so-called professionals at least once. What are they?
Answer: Psychics.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Question: The average American will eat about 46 pounds of this every year. What is it?
Answer: Ice cream
Friday, August 31, 2012
Question: The typical American spends 26 minutes a day doing this. What is it?
Answer: Commute to work
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Question: 50 percent of women donate these to charity when they're done with them. Only a third of men do the same. What are they?
Answer: Cell phones
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Question: We'd probably all like one, but only 11 percent of us have treated ourselves to one in the past year. What is it?
Answer: a massage
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Question: 46 percent of us say we do this polite thing even when we're not asked to. What is it?
Answer: Bring something along to a party.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Question: While everyone starts this in the bathroom, nearly three in ten of us admit to continuing it elsewhere in the house. What is it?
Answer: Brushing our teeth
Monday, August 13, 2012
Question: Male drivers are four times as likely as women to do this. Do what?
Answer: Hit a pedestrian.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Question: 44 percent of kids will undergo a particular traumatic experience at some point in their lives. What is it?
Answer: Seeing a parent naked
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Question: The average woman will buy 111 of these in her lifetime. What are they?
Answer: Purses
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Question: Not surprisingly, students majoring in physics have the highest IQs, on average. But which major has the lowest?
Answer: Social work.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Question: Seven percent of us use this kitchen shortcut every day. What is it?
Answer: Paper plates
Monday, August 6, 2012
Question: Women make up 68 percent of this profession
Answer: Psychologist.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Question: Equestrian and sailing are the only Olympic sports where this is true. What is it?
Answer: Men and women compete against each other
Friday, July 20, 2012
Question: The typical American adult will do this nine times in his or her lifetime. What is it?
Answer: Lock the keys in the car.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Question: You can't really tell by looking at it, but the average one is 44 inches long. What is it?
Answer: A wire coat hanger.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Question: If you visit Alaska, Hawaii, Maine or Vermont, you won't see one of these -- because they are banned in those states. What are they?
Answer: Billboards.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Question: Nearly three in 10 married couples share this personal item. What is it?
Answer: A toothbrush
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Question: Nearly half of all American women take this on vacation, but only about one in five men do the same. What is it?
Answer: Their own pillow
Monday, July 9, 2012
Question: About 73.5 million of these were sold in North America last year -- the fifth most of any year in history. What are they?
Answer: Tickets to baseball games. The all-time record was set in 2008, when 78 million tickets were sold.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Question: Most things go up in price, but three decades ago, this cost about 20 times what it costs now. What is it?
Answer: A cell phone.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Question: 91 percent of people in Rwanda have this. What is it?
Answer: Healthcare insurance. Only about 84 percent of Americans can say the same.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Question: The United States has experienced this 284 times since
Answer: A direct hurricane strike.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Question: Just over 60 percent of public schools have one of these. What are they?
Answer: Junk food vending machines.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Question: More people do this in August than in any other month. What is it?
Answer: Have babies
Friday, June 8, 2012
Question: There are about 270 of these in America -- down from 4,000 in the '60s. What are they?
Answer: Drive-in theaters
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Question: Slightly more than 10,000 Americans will do this today. What is it?
Answer: Retire.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Question: About one in 20 lottery jackpot winners do this within a year of winning. What is it?
Answer: Get divorced.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Question: The Texas Rangers lead Major League Baseball in this category. What is it?
Answer: Selling hot dogs. Rangers' fans ate 1.6 million weenies last season, more than fans at any other ballpark.
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