Trivia Questions 01/27/24
1: If you decide to give Parasailing a try on your next vacation – you show know that 10 out of every 941, 9,410, or 94,100 parasailing attempts results in some level of personal injury? (2.3 fatalities each year – over 1,800 since parasailing became a thing)
2. Any NFL that has watched a game on television this year should know: 70, 80, or 90% of all NFL players sleep on a “Sleep Number” bed?
3. Jumping into water from this height is when the impact will feel like hitting concrete: 60, 80, or 100 yards? (300 feet/100yds)
4. The World Record for the most water skiers being towed behind a single boat/ship is: 145, 415, or 514? (2012, 145 skiers were successfully pulled out of the water and traveled the necessary distance to get the record – A small cruise ship/yacht was used – In total it was close to 8 years to get this record on the books)
5. Bible Question: “There is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God” – God used these words to describe: Abraham, Job, or Noah? (Job 2:3 – right before God let Satan painfully & brutally test Job – taking his family, his livestock, basically robbing him of everything but Job never forsook God or lost his faith – if you have not read this story, it’s a tough read)
6. The thickness of the ice used in an NHL hockey game is more or less than 1.5″ thick? (3/4 of an inch)
7. The WNBA was founded: 50, 60, or 70 years after the NBA was founded? (NBA 1946/WNBA 1996)
8. The Kansas City Chiefs are the first NFL team to win games in: 3 or 4 countries?
9. Travis Kelce’s well-known girlfriend (2023-24 Taylor Swift at the time of this question) played High School Sports – in which sport did she not participate: Basketball, Track & Field, or Softball?
10. History records the NBA’s youngest drafted player as: 17, 18, or 19 years old? (2023 with the 45th pick of the NBA draft – Gregory Jackson II became the youngest NBA player ever to be drafted)