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• Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.
• China has 100 million Internet users, second to the US’s 135 million users.
• The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The name for Oz in “The Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
• There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
• “Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Some Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

See if you can guess which senior by the clue given

1. drives a corvette
2. got a 5 on her AP english test
3. drives the green machine
4. favorite class is drama
5. runs the school
6. a Stanford alumni
7. loves cats
8. goes to the most concerts
9. host the after parties
10. the model
11. Salutatorian
12. musical genius
13. sports all-star
14. drummer boy
15. fanatic patriot fan
16. fall homecoming queen 2009
17. most apathetic
18. on a travel swim team
19. powder puff football stud
20. brought steak to outdoor ed
21. the guy who had a ruptured spleen
22. going to U.O.P
23. known as the monster in football
24. has hot tub parties
25. known as “easy rider”
26. going to be a marine
27. plays travel vball
28. A.P calc wizz
29. going Fresno state
30. jujitsu master
31. the lil wayne wanna be
32. Worked with his cousin to make a mousetrap vehicle
33. has a train horn in his truck
34. the dairy man
35. lead singer of worship team
36. wishes their were more Asian girls at tc
37. best golfer
38. lead in every drama
39. has the best cow ever
40. rides his bike to school
41. loves horses
42. has a tattoo on her back
43. future farmer
44. plays girls soccer
45. always late to English class
46. baseball stud
47. Amazing artist
48. most godly
49. basketball stud
50. the host of the bachelor nights

ANSWERS

1.Mitchell Everett 2. Staci Hogue 3. Garret Allison 4. Kristen Tillotson 5. Demsina Babazdeh 6. Matthew Davoodian 7. Heather McCuistion 8. Mary Boyer 9. Garret Yagi 10. Anthony (tony) Campos  11. Johanna Muller 12. Traevor Carlton 13. Robert Smallwood 14. John Kim 15. Jina Daniel 16. Candice Balswick 17. Anthony Adams 18. Rebekah Godfrey  19. Simranjit Grewal  20. John Heller 21. Cody Aldrin 22. Kevin Huang 23. Nikko Jennings 24. Kiley Keas 25. Justin Curtis 26. Tyler Landmeier 27. Aubrey Larson 28. Hye lee 29. Casey Synder 30. Miles Martinez 31. George Biko 32. Morgan McIntire 33. Nicholas Mendoza 34. Austin Morelli 35. Chelsy Carlson 36. Seongjoo Park 37. Beau Simon-Warda 38. Geoffrey Retemeyer 39. Natalie Sanders 40. Daniel Schultz 41. Hiliary Sharp 42. Christina Pegues 43. Derek Cederlind 44. Danae Smith 45. Kyron Loving 46. Trevor Starn 47. Morgan Andre 48. Amy Wright 49. Josh Wright 50. Megan Brown

• Each year, Americans throw out enough soda pop cans bottles to reach to the moon and back—twenty times.

• After Plácido Domingo performed the title role in Verdi’s Otello in Vienna on July 30, 1991, the audience clapped for one hour and 20 minutes (and 101 curtain calls), setting a new world record for the longest applause ever.

• Prior to the 12th Amendment of the Constitution in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second highest number of electoral votes was named the vice-president. The amendment mandated that electors vote for the offices of president and vice-president separately.

• The first country to grant women the right to vote in the modern era was New Zealand in 1893.

• On average, someone in the U.S. is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes.

• An adult can starve to death within 8-12 weeks. In the final stages of starvation, adults can experience hallucinations, convulsions, severe muscle pain, and irregular heart rhythms. Organs weakened by starvation may actually burst if food is given too quickly.

• An American is more likely to recycle their trash than to vote.

1. How many days was Jesus in the tomb?
   1. One
   2. Two
   3. Three
   4. Four and one half
2. How did the soldiers make sure Jesus was dead?
   1. They cut off His head
   2. They pierced his side with a spear
   3. They held him under water for a while
   4. They broke his kneecaps
3. On Easter Morning, who was the first to the tomb?
   1. Mary Magdelene
   2. Peter
   3. Thomas
   4. Herod
4. What did the soldiers place on Jesus’ head at His crucifixion?
   1. A crown of thorns
   2. A Gold crown
   3. A yarmulke
   4. A beanie
5. Which High Priest led Jesus away first?
   1. Caiphas
   2. Joseph
   3. Caesar
   4. Annas
6. What color was the robe placed on Jesus?
   1. Blue
   2. Red
   3. Purple
   4. Scarlet
7. Who carried the cross for Jesus?
   1. Simeon
   2. Simon of Cyrene
   3. Simon of Cyprus
   4. Jesus
8. Who rolled away the tombstone?
   1. An angel
   2. Jesus
   3. Peter
   4. Simeon
9. By Jesus’ resurrection, we are…
   1. Condemned
   2. Going to Purgatory
   3. Saved
   4. Forgiven

Answers: 1-C, 2-B, 3-A, 4-A, 5-D, 6-C, 7-B, 8-A, 9-C

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• On average, men shell out $130 each on candy, cards, jewelry, flowers and dates. That’s more than double what women commit to spending.
• More than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold for Valentine’s Day
• 73% of flowers are bought by men, and only 27% are by women
• 85% of all Valentine cards are bought by women.
• The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day.
• Teachers will receive the most Valentine’s Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives, and then, sweethearts.
• Over 1 billion Valentine cards are exchanged in the U.S each year. It’s the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.
• About 3% of pet owners will give Valentine’s Day gifts to their pets.
• Cupid, a symbol of Valentine’s Day, became associated with it because he was the son of Venus, the Roman god of love and beauty.

• There are 1.76 billion candy canes produced every year
• Teddy Roosevelt banned the Christmas tree from the White House for environmental reasons
• The first time a Christmas tree was lit by electricity was in 1882 in New York. Edward Johnson, a colleague of Thomas Edison, lit a Christmas tree with a string of 80 small electric light bulbs, which he had made himself.
• Want to be Santa at the mall this year? The average salary is $11 an hour.
• 20 billion — Number of letters, packages and cards delivered by the U.S. Postal Service between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The busiest mailing day this year is expected to be today (Dec. 19), with more than twice as many cards and letters being cancelled as on an average day.
• Father Christmas’ reindeers are called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner/Donder, Blitzen, and Rudolph. Eight of these names are taken from Clement C. Moore’s “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” and the ninth from the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (Donder is also known as Donner.)

On average, people fear spiders more than death.

Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

Around the world, around 50 bibles are sold each minute.

Fitzroy River Turtles can breathe through their butt.

Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza every day.

The “Robbins” in Baskin Robbins once made a Ketchup ice cream.

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

A ‘geep’ is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat, usually ending in stillbirth.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4800 chemicals, 69 0f which are known to cause cancer.