Intro to Chapter 5

Compare:

inches tall you need to be to ride Space Mountain ____ inches tall you need to be to ride Splash Mountain

Answer explanation

Space Mountain = 44 inches

Splash Mountain = 40 inches

Going far over budget, at $75 million, Splash Mountain was the most expensive project that Walt Disney Imagineering had ever created.

Have you been on Space Mountain?

• Yes

• No

Compare:

Number of states in the US ____ The number of countries in Africa

Answer explanation

The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands.

There are 54 countries in Africa today, according to the United Nations.

There are 44 countries in Europe today, according to the United Nations.

Have you been out of the country?

• Yes

• No

Compare:

Combined length of nails of person with longest nails ___ Tallest man ever on Record

Answer explanation

Our most recent record holder for longest nails was Ayanna Williams (USA) who had tremendous talons that had a combined length of 733.55 cm (24 ft 0.7 in) when measured in March 2021.

She cut them in April 2021!

Robert Wadlow, the tallest man ever, was 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m) at his peak height.

Would you rather be the tallest person on record or the shortest?

• Tallest

• Shortest

Compare:

# of Tweets sent each day ____ # of WhatsApp Messages sent each day

Answer explanation

100 billion messages

WhatsApp is ranked as the most used mobile messenger app in the world. More than 100 billion messages are sent each day on WhatsApp. The average WhatsApp user on Android spends 38 minutes per day on the app. India has the most WhatsApp monthly active users (390.1 million).

According to Internet Live Stats, Twitter users send out approximately 500 million Tweets every day. This adds up to about 200 billion Tweets per year.

If only one of the following platforms could exist, which would you want it to be?

• X

• Instagram

• SnapChat

• WhatsApp

• TikTok

Compare:

Voting age in the US ___ Voting Age in Brazil

Answer explanation

Brazil lowered the voting age from 18 to 16 in the 1988 constitution.

According to the CIA World Factbook, 21 countries, including 10 Latin American countries, officially had compulsory voting as of December 2017, with a number of those countries not enforcing it.

Do you think the voting age in the US should be lowered to 16?

• Yes

• No