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How many minutes of daylight does Chicago gain during the month of March?
a. 5 minutes
b. 20 minutes
c. 35 minutes
d. 80 minutes
e. 93 minutes
And the answer is …
The answer is 80 minutes. Yeah March!
What is the share of New York City’s population lives in public housing?
a. 50%
b. 40%
c. 25%
d. 10%
e. 5%
And the answer is …
The answer is 5 percent. The share in Memphis, TN is 3 percent.
How much money has the U.S. given Ukraine to help it defend itself and, thereby, our country?
a. $300 billon plus
b. $120 billion
And the answer is …
The answer is $120 billion. President Trump is claiming $300 billion to $350 billion.
How much larger is the GDP of the European Union and the United Kingdom than that of Russia?
a. 19 times
b. 13 times
c. 9 times
d. 5 times
e. 2 times
And the answer is …
The answer is 9 times larger. But the EU and UK are only spending 3 times more than Russia on defense. That’s changing rapidly.
Last month the temperature in the Arctic was
a. 14 degrees below average
b. 5 degrees below average
c. 4 degrees above average
d. 17 degrees above average
e. 36 degrees above average
f. 41 degrees above average
And the answer is
The answer is 36 degrees above average. This is yet another extremely troubling sign not of climate change, but of climate changed.
What fraction of working-age Italian females don’t work.
a. 19 percent
b. 23 percent
c. 33 percent
d. 41 percent
e. 59 percent
And the answer is …
The answer is 59 percent. The answer for the U.S. is 43 percent.
How many Catholic churches are there in Rome?
a. 2,200
b. 1,700
c. 900
d. 700
e. 400
And the answer is …
The answer is 900. St. Peter’s is the largest in the world — large enough to fit two football fields. It took 219 years, 32 popes, and 10 architects to build. But the dome of the Duomo in Florence is the largest dome of any church in the world. Its architect, Brunelleschi, also designed Peposo, Tuscan red wine beef stew. Try it!
How many Muslims are there in the world?
a. 600 million
b. 1.2 billion
e. 1.4 billion
f. 1.9 billion
g. 3.2 billion
And the answer is …
The answer is 1.9 billion. There are, btw, 1.4 billion Catholics in the world. Almost half of Muslims live in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. What share of Europeans are Muslim? Less than 5 percent. In Russia, the figure is 15 percent. This share will double in 25 years unless Russia absorbs Ukraine, the Baltics, and other countries with small Muslim populations. Maybe this underlies Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?
How many Protestant denominations are there in the world?
a. 200
b. 400
c. 1,200
d. 11,000
e. 47,000
And the answer is …
The answer is 47,000.
47,000. And every one of them claims to be the only true church. 🙄
That peposo recipe looks great. I may have had it in Italy but am not sure; I intend to try it, though.
47,000 protestant denominations? That seems overstated unless one counts the branches of certain denominations as separate denominations; e.g., are Missouri Synod Lutherans a different denomination from Swedish Lutherans and Evangelical Lutherans?