Seeking assistance constructing a trivia quiz

Cafe Society
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OK, I blew the dust off of my Wits & Wagers game. It will be very handy in preparing my event (although the game is from 2009 so I may have to do some fact-checking).

Just for fun, here are some sample questions & answers:

  1. What percent of the world’s total land area does the U.S. account for? 6.9
  2. How many acts performed on the main stage at the original Woodstock concert? 31
  3. How many pounds did Renee Zellweger gain to play the lead in the 2001 movie Bridget Jones’s Diary? 25
  4. How many pairs of shoes were found in Imelda Marcos’ closet after she fled the Philippines in 1986? 1,220
  5. In degrees Farenheit, what is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Hawaii? 12
  6. In what year was it discovered that humans could have different blood types? 1901
  7. How many bathrooms does Buckingham Palace have? 78
  8. In what year did the first Wal-Mart store open? 1962
  9. How many pounds does one gallon of water weigh? 8.33
  10. How many times do the Beatles sing the word “yeah” in the song She Loves You? 29
  11. How old was Lee Harvey Oswald when he shot John F. Kennedy? 24
  12. Since the system was introduced in 1971, how many category 5 hurricanes have hit land in the U.S.? 4
  13. In inches, what is the standard distance between U.S. railroad tracks? 56.5
  14. How many full length feature films did Alfred Hitchcock direct? 58
  15. In what year did Leonardo da Vinci begin painting the Mona Lisa? 1506
  16. In dollars, how much did the most expensive ticket cost on the Titanic in 1912? $4,350
  17. How many different 5-card poker hands can be created from a standard deck of 52 cards? 2,598,960
  18. In what year was the children’s book Charlotte’s Web first published? 1952
  19. In years and days, how long did Franklin Roosevelt serve as U.S. president? 12 years, 39 days
  20. How many passengers survived the plane crash in the first episode of the TV show Lost? 48
82

Google says 8.34. This is a shock to me, as I was taught in school that “a pint’s a pound the world around” and there are eight pints in a gallon, but there you go.

83

Good catch. I’m gonna change it to 8.34 in case someone jumps on the Google Machine afterwards.

84

I’d check more significant digits before changing anything, you might just be dealing with proper rounding versus truncation.

85

A grumble on this one: The stated answer is correct if the question is “how many five-card hands”, but by asking “how many poker hands”, there is an implication that poker is somehow relevant. A vastly smaller number of five-cards hands would be counted as different “five-card poker hands” (i.e., the items we’re seemingly asked to count here.)

(Sure, citing a concrete game helps clarify that we’re talking about playing cards, but I still don’t like it.)

grumble grumble

86

It’s dependent on temperature so 8 1/3 is not incorrect.

87

You might want to specify whether that’s a US gallon or an Imperial one. They’re different sizes: a US gallon is 128 fluid ounces; an Imperial one is 160 fluid ounces.

88

And assuming 4 degrees C water, a gallon is 3785.411784 g which rounded is 8.3454044520193 lb.