Nigeria is expected to surpass the United States in population by __________________, making it the third most populous country in the world.
2075
2050
2060
2035
The odds of winning the Powerball lottery in the U.S. are about 1 in __________ million. You are more likely to be struck by lightning in your lifetime than to win.
345
563
178
292
Statistically, driving a car is much riskier than flying. In the U.S., your chance of dying in a car crash is about 1 in 103, while the chance of dying in a plane crash is about 1 in 11__________.
thousand
billion
million
hundred
A coin is not perfectly fair. When a coin is flipped, the side that was facing ______________ when it was flipped is slightly more likely to land facing up due to slight biases in the coin and how it is flipped.
down
up
Globally, slightly more boys are born than girls. The ratio is approximately _______________ male births for every 100 female births.
104
106
105
107
About 1 in every _________________ pregnancies results in identical twins, which occurs when a single fertilized egg splits into two embryos.
250
150
500
700
In a group of just 23 people, there's a ____________% chance that at least two people share the same birthday.
25
50
70
36
Many tall buildings skip the _________th floor, reflecting a widespread superstition about the number. However, there is no statistical evidence that accidents or fatalities are more common on floors numbered __________________.
13
Studies show that the average human attention span has dropped to about _______________ seconds— shorter than that of a goldfish (around 9 seconds)!
6
5
8
7
The richest 1% of people in the world own about __________% of the world's wealth, highlighting the extreme inequality in global wealth distribution.
80
36
50
44
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