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Snapshots 2018

October 30, 2017
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eye35/Alamy Stock Photo (Burj Khalifa); VCG via Getty Images (Shanghai Tower); Ramazan Turgut/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (Makkah Royal Clock Tower); robertharding/Alamy Stock Photo (Ping An Intl. Finance Center); SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Lotte World Tower); Mark Lennihan/AP Images (One World Trade Center); Ian Trower/robertharding/Newscom (CTF Finance Center); langdu8x/123RF.com (Taipei 101); Mori Building Co via Getty Images (Shanghai World Financial Center)
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Michelle Gilders/Alamy Stock Photo (Seoul, South Korea)
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Questions

  1. How many of the world’s 7.5 billion people are native speakers of English?
  2. In what country are 5 of the 10 tallest buildings in the world located?
  3. Christians make up roughly what percentage of the world’s population?
  4. What percentage of U.S. power comes from wind and solar?
  5. How many Starbucks does Seoul have?
  6. In what city is the most Instagrammed place in the world located?
  7. What do most of the top TV watching countries have in common?
  8. What is the average age of marriage in India?
  9. Roughly one-quarter of people in the world practice what religion?
  10. Which stats surprise you most? Why?

Snapshots was compiled by Greg Gottfried.

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