"What Are There More Of?" Game

The Game Room
1

Simple game. Five items. Rank them from most to least by how many of them there are in the world. No looking up the answers.

McDonald’s restaurants
Segways
synagogues
wide-body jets
zebras

Answer:

1. zebras - 663,000
2. Segways - 40,000
3. McDonald’s restaurants - 32,000
4. synagogues - 15,900
5. wide-body jets - 6,230

2
  1. McDonald’s
  2. Synagogues
  3. Zebras
  4. Wide-body jets
  5. Segways
3

Ah, not even close.

4

Look at the bright side. You’re in first place.

5
  1. Zebras
  2. McDonald’s
  3. Synagogues
  4. Segways
  5. Wide bodied jets
6

While I’m not surprised by the drop-off factor between #1 and the rest of the items on the list, I’m definitely surprised at how the rest of the list shapes out. I suppose that it does make sense that anything manufactured for consumer use is going to beat out buildings, though.