All That Glitters Is Not Gold Trivia Quiz

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First, we will go over the answers related to 100:
1 George Burns was an active TV and film star all the way into his nineties. He died at the age of 100.
2 The Leadville race is a grueling 100-mile ultramarathon that has over 18,000 feet of elevation gain!
3 Traditionally, the chef's toque hat has 100 folds, each representing a way the chef knows how to cook a recipe, especially eggs.
4 There are 50 states in the USA and each state has two senators to represent them for a total of 100.
5 Disney's Aurora was pricked by a magic spinning wheel that was supposed to kill her, but one of the fairies had placed a blessing on her that she would only sleep until true love's kiss would break the curse. Prince Phillip took 100 years to get around to waking her!
6 The Celsius scale is based on the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level. Zero was set at the freezing point and 100 degrees was set as the boiling point.
7 In the sport of cricket, a batter who manages to score 100 runs in one inning scores a ton which is also called a century. Scoring a ton is a rare feat in cricket and one that displays true skill.
8 Nine-year-old Milton Sirotta coined the term googol in 1920 to represent the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Milton possibly named googol after the comic book character Barney Google. Incidentally, the corporation Google is a misspelling of the word googol.
9 Winnie the Pooh is Christopher Robin's silly old teddy bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood with Piglet and Tigger. The magical wood is centered on Owl's house and was modeled after a 500-acre wood that the historic Christopher Robin would explore.
10 The binary number for our base 10 one hundred is 1100100. Binary is the number system that computers use. In 1703 Gottfried was the first to document the binary number system though it is thought to have been used for centuries beforehand.

Wrong answers:
1 One would think that a centipede would have one hundred legs as its name is Latin for 100 feet. However, all healthy centipedes always have an odd number of body segments which will have two legs each meaning the closest they can come is either 98 or 102 legs total.
2 Major League Baseball standardized each ball to have exactly 108 double-stitches with the first and last being hidden below the cover. The stitches are what allow a pitcher to throw a curveball making it harder for the batter to make solid contact.
3 Einsteinium has atomic number 99 on the Periodic Table of Elements. The element is unstable and does not occur naturally. Scientists first discovered Einsteinium in 1952 from a hydrogen bomb test.
4 Built in the 1930s, the Empire State Building has 102 floors. It was the tallest building in the world for 41 years until the North Tower of the World Trade Center was completed in 1972.
5 The Indy 500 is a 2.5-mile circuit that requires 200 laps to reach the 500 miles for a complete race. The race was first held in 1911 when Ray Harroun won it with his special car the Marmon Wasp.
6 Uzbekistan country code is +998. So if someone calling from the US wanted to call a friend in Uzbekistan they would dial 011 (US exit code) followed by 998 (Uzbekistan country code) followed by a two-digit area code and a seven-digit number.
7 In darts the inner bullseye is worth 50 points and the outer bullseye is worth 25 points. It may be surprising that four spots on the dart board give a greater number of points than the middle of the board. Triple 20 gives 60 points, triple 19 gives 57, triple 18 gives 54, and triple 17 gives 51.