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Quiz about Its All About The Millions Baby
Quiz about Its All About The Millions Baby

It's All About The Millions, Baby! Quiz


Wow, a million used to be a HUGE number -- but now a billion (or maybe even a trillion) is the "new" million. Wrap your brain around these questions to rediscover just how much a million is!

A multiple-choice quiz by Omakase. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
Omakase
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
326,041
Updated
Mar 23 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
296
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Question 1 of 10
1. After dumpster-diving in Las Vegas, I got together one million playing cards and stacked them up. Quite a feat, right? This impressive stack was just about the same height as what? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. I'm opening a branch office for my company in Miami and our headquarters are in New York City. In order to get some upgrades, I just joined the frequent-flyer club for Happy Cat Airlines. If I travel to Miami once every week, how long will it be before I have flown one million miles? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. A pair of genetically-modified super rabbits escaped from the lab and took up residence in my yard. With a gestation period of only a day, I had four rabbits in my yard on the second day and eight by the third. After how many days did the rabbit population in my yard reach one million rabbits? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The average hair on your head grows about six inches (152mm) annually. If you started measuring every hair on your head, approximately how long would it take until the total length was one million feet (305km)? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. My Uncle Mike is a big guy, standing 6'2" and weighing 220 lbs (100kg). He's athletic for his size and can make some mean BBQ ribs, but one thing he's not very good at is estimating things. He weighs one million times more than which of the following? (I bet him a case of beer that he can't figure it out). Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The question you are reading right now has a total of 173 characters in it. If the average paperback novel has 300 pages, how many books do you have to read to reach the millionth character (not including any spaces)? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In a typical Major League baseball game, the number of pitches thrown is 275. Considering that there are 30 teams playing 162 games per year, then it takes about one-and-a-half seasons to tally up one million pitches. If all those pitches were added together into one long throw, how about how far would the baseball travel? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Being a huge fan of Elvis, I couldn't resist buying some glossy 8"x10" photos at a recent clearance sale. I will admit that I went just a *little* overboard and purchased one million prints. I ended up laying them all out together side by side to see if I could conjure up some of the King's mojo. How much area did they take up? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. I just ate a pea. So I started thinking about peas. Then I started thinking about millions of peas. Next, I stumbled upon the granddaddy of pea ideas -- yes -- a pea that is one million times its normal diameter! Wow! What would a pea like that look like? (Strokes chin and looks upwards). Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. I put a million monkeys at a million typewriters and...Nah, just kidding. For the last question we'll go back to playing cards. Instead of stacking up one million of them, I need to transport one million decks of cards. What am I going to need to haul them? Hint



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1. After dumpster-diving in Las Vegas, I got together one million playing cards and stacked them up. Quite a feat, right? This impressive stack was just about the same height as what?

Answer: The Eiffel Tower

The average playing card is .011" (.28mm) in thickness, so a million of them measure about 918 ft (280m). The Eiffel Tower is 984 ft (300m). The others on the list measure as follows: Niagara Falls is 175 ft (53m); the tallest tree on Earth is probably the Coast Redwood at about 379 ft (115m); and The Great Pyramid is 455 ft (139m).
2. I'm opening a branch office for my company in Miami and our headquarters are in New York City. In order to get some upgrades, I just joined the frequent-flyer club for Happy Cat Airlines. If I travel to Miami once every week, how long will it be before I have flown one million miles?

Answer: 8 years, 9 months

The New York to Miami flight is about 1100 miles (1770 km) one way. So if I fly every week it will take me about 454 weeks. I guess I will be really sick of airline food by then...
3. A pair of genetically-modified super rabbits escaped from the lab and took up residence in my yard. With a gestation period of only a day, I had four rabbits in my yard on the second day and eight by the third. After how many days did the rabbit population in my yard reach one million rabbits?

Answer: 21 days

This is analogous to the old question "If I deposit a penny in the bank on the first of the month and it doubles every day, how much do I have at the end of the month?" Answer: over $5.3 million.
4. The average hair on your head grows about six inches (152mm) annually. If you started measuring every hair on your head, approximately how long would it take until the total length was one million feet (305km)?

Answer: 20 years

The typical number of hairs on the average person's head is 100,000. The number does vary depending on color, with blondes having upwards of 140,000 hairs and redheads have only about 90,000. So if we take one million divided by 100,000 multiplied by .50 ft, the answer is 20 years. What is quite amazing is to consider that we grow a total of 140 ft (43m) of hair every day!
5. My Uncle Mike is a big guy, standing 6'2" and weighing 220 lbs (100kg). He's athletic for his size and can make some mean BBQ ribs, but one thing he's not very good at is estimating things. He weighs one million times more than which of the following? (I bet him a case of beer that he can't figure it out).

Answer: Bumblebee

Buzz buzz buzz... weighing 0.0035 oz (.1g) a bee is the correct answer. A paperclip weighs .042 oz (1.2g), an ant weighs a mere .0001 oz (3mg) and a piece of paper is the heaviest at .14 oz (4g). So a million of these would weigh 2640 lbs (1200 kg), 66 lbs (30 kg) and 8800 lbs (4000kg) respectively.
6. The question you are reading right now has a total of 173 characters in it. If the average paperback novel has 300 pages, how many books do you have to read to reach the millionth character (not including any spaces)?

Answer: 2

Six hundred pages is the rough equivalent of one million characters. Most novels have between 80,000 to 120,000 words, and most readers read between 200-250 words per minute. Putting all these facts together gives us a reading rate of about one and a half minutes per page on the average.
7. In a typical Major League baseball game, the number of pitches thrown is 275. Considering that there are 30 teams playing 162 games per year, then it takes about one-and-a-half seasons to tally up one million pitches. If all those pitches were added together into one long throw, how about how far would the baseball travel?

Answer: From London to Sydney

The best choice is London to Sydney, a distance of about 10,570 miles (17,017km). The baseball will actually travel a total of about 11,450 miles (18,435km). The other distances from London are: Paris 213 miles (343km), New York 3470 miles (5585km), and Bangkok 5938 miles (9556km).
8. Being a huge fan of Elvis, I couldn't resist buying some glossy 8"x10" photos at a recent clearance sale. I will admit that I went just a *little* overboard and purchased one million prints. I ended up laying them all out together side by side to see if I could conjure up some of the King's mojo. How much area did they take up?

Answer: 10 American football fields

One million smiling Elvis pictures cover a total of 555,500 sq ft (51675 sq m). An American football field is 160 ft x 360 ft, so ten of them total 576,000 sq ft (53580 sq m).

The world's largest cruise ship in 2010, The Oasis of The Seas, measures 1187 ft long and 208 ft wide for a total area of 246,900 sq ft (22967 sq m). Eight acres is the equivalent of 348,000 sq ft (32372 sq m). And finally, Vatican City, the smallest country in the world, is .17 sq mi or 4,740,000 sq ft, so Elvis would've only covered 1/10 of the city.
9. I just ate a pea. So I started thinking about peas. Then I started thinking about millions of peas. Next, I stumbled upon the granddaddy of pea ideas -- yes -- a pea that is one million times its normal diameter! Wow! What would a pea like that look like? (Strokes chin and looks upwards).

Answer: Size of Aegir, a moon of Saturn

The average every day pea is about .25" (6mm) in diameter, so a million times larger bumps us up to 250,000 inches or 3.95 miles (6.3km). That's a whole lot bigger than the twine ball (12.7 feet/3.9m) or the bongo beach ball (36 ft/11m). Spaceship Earth, while an impressive big ball, is still only 180 ft (54.9m). Aegir has a diameter of 3.7 miles (6km), and at over 100 times larger it eats Spaceship Earths for snacks.

But in another perspective check -- Aegir fits comfortably within the 5.4 mile (8.6km) diameter loop of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
10. I put a million monkeys at a million typewriters and...Nah, just kidding. For the last question we'll go back to playing cards. Instead of stacking up one million of them, I need to transport one million decks of cards. What am I going to need to haul them?

Answer: Three 18-wheel tractor trailers

A deck of standard playing cards measures about 5/8" x 2 5/8" x 3 1/2", for a total volume of 5.75 cubic inches (94.2 cc). So one million decks will have a volume of 3327 cu ft (94.2 cubic m). The second consideration, though, is the weight. A deck weighs about 3.5 ounces (100g), so the load will be about 218,000 lbs/109 tons (100,000kg).

The SUVs are clearly too small. A train with six boxcars is too large, since each boxcar can handle about 5000-6000 cu ft. A tractor trailer can carry 5000-7000 cu ft of goods and a box truck can carry up to around 1700-1800 cu ft each. However, a box truck can only carry about 17 tons while a tractor trailer can carry up to 40 tons. So, the three tractor trailers would be required.
Source: Author Omakase

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