{ "1": "1 is the loneliest number.", "2": "2 is the number of stars in a binary star system (a stellar system consisting of two stars orbiting around their center of mass).", "3": "3 is the number of novels or films in a trilogy and the number of interconnected works of art in a triptych.", "4": "4 is the number of bits in a nibble, equivalent to half a byte.", "5": "5 is the number of points in a pentagram.", "6": "6 is the number worn by LeBron James in the NBA.", "7": "7 is the number of estimated objects that can be simultaneously held in human working memory.", "8": "8 is the number of legs that arachnids have.", "9": "9 is the number of circles of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy.", "10": "10 is the number of kingdoms in Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.", "11": "11 is the approximate periodicity of a sunspot cycle in years.", "12": "12 is the number of constellations in the ecliptic (or signs of the zodiac).", "13": "13 is the number of Oscar nominations of actress Meryl Streep, who holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress.", "14": "14 is the maximum number of electrons that can fit in an f sublevel.", "15": "15 is the number of checkers each side has at the start of a backgammon game.", "16": "16 is the number of teams that qualified for the finals of the FIFA World Cup from 1934 through 1978 (although for various reasons, only 15 competed in the 1938 and 1950 finals).", "17": "17 is the number of syllables in a haiku (5+7+5).", "18": "18 is the number of levels in hell in the Chinese mythos.", "19": "19 is the number of years in 235 lunations.", "20": "20 is the number of questions in the popular party game Twenty Questions.", "21": "21 is the number of demands which were sent to the Chinese government by the Japanese government of Okuma Shigenobu in 1915.", "22": "22 is the typical (minimum) number of episodes in a season for a television program broadcast on a major American network.", "23": "23 is the number of crosses on Calvary in the Monty Python film Life Of Brian.", "24": "24 is the number of hours it takes for the human body to make 1 to 3 pints of saliva.", "25": "25 is the number of years of marriage marked in a silver wedding anniversary.", "26": "26 is the number of spacetime dimensions in bosonic string theory.", "27": "27 is the total number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet (22 regular letters and 5 final consonants).", "28": "28 is the average number of minutes in a day that kids in the U.S. between the ages of 2 - 8 spend coloring.", "29": "29 is the number of days it takes Saturn to orbit the Sun.", "30": "30 is the height in feet that stalks of sugar cane can reach up to.", "31": "31 is the number of flavors of Baskin-Robbins ice cream.", "32": "32 is the percentage of employees in the USA who eat lunch and work at the same time.", "33": "33 is the temperature at which water boils according to the Newton scale.", "34": "34 is the lucky number of Victor Pelevin's protagonist Stepan Mikhailov in the novel Numbers.", "35": "35 is the basic film gauge in mm most commonly used for both analog photography and motion pictures.", "36": "36 is the perfect score on the ACT.", "37": "37 is the normal human body temperature in degrees Celsius.", "38": "38 is the number of surviving plays written by William Shakespeare.", "39": "39 is the number of Scud missiles which Iraq fired at Israel during the Gulf War in 1991.", "40": "40 is the number of thieves in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and in Ali Shar and Zumurrud, from Thousand and One Nights.", "41": "41 is the number of soldiers in The Expendables (2010 film) tactor Eric Roberts laments to his subordinates about having been killed by star Sylvester Stallone in his escape from their island.", "42": "42 is the number of US gallons in a barrel of oil.", "43": "43 is the maximum number of cars participating in a NASCAR race in the Cup Series or Nationwide Series.", "44": "44 is the number of candles in a box of Hanukkah candles.", "45": "45 is the sapphire wedding anniversary in years of marriage.", "46": "46 is the number of human chromosomes.", "47": "47 is the number of phonemes in English phonology in Received Pronunciation.", "48": "48 is the number of Ptolemaic constellations.", "49": "49 is the number of days and night Siddhartha Gautama spent meditating as a holy man.", "50": "50 is the speed limit, in kilometers per hour, of Australian roads with unspecified limits.", "51": "51 is the atomic number of antimony.", "52": "52 is the number of letters in the English alphabet, if majuscules are distinguished from minuscules.", "53": "53 is the maximum number of players on a National Football League roster.", "54": "54 is the score in golf colloquially referred to as a perfect round.", "55": "55 is the percentage of movies released that are Rated R.", "56": "56 is the number of curls Shirley Temple, as a child, wore in her hair.", "57": "57 is the number of cm that the smallest man measured, Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India.", "58": "58 is the minimum wind speed (mph) needed to issue a Severe Thunderstorm Warning.", "59": "59 is the number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s (based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar).", "60": "60 is the highest obtainable level on World of Warcraft (not including expansions).", "61": "61 is the number of points required to win a \"standard\" game of Cribbage.", "62": "62 is the atomic number of samarium.", "63": "63 is the number of chromosomes found in the offspring of a donkey and a horse.", "64": "64 is number of golden disks in the myth of the Tower of Hanoi.", "65": "65 is the traditional age for retirement in the United Kingdom, Germany and other countries.", "66": "66 is the number of hot dogs eaten by World record holder Joey Chestnut in 15 minutes.", "67": "67 is the number of counties in Florida.", "68": "68 is the ideal temperature (F) for developing black-and-white film.", "69": "69 is the number Bill and Ted were thinking of when talking to their future selves.", "70": "70 is the number of years of marriage until the platinum wedding anniversary.", "71": "71 is the number of different characters that can be used with a standard English Keyboard, excluding uppercase letters.", "72": "72 is the number of the Immortals of Taoism.", "73": "73 is the percentage of girls in Bangladesh that are married by age 18.", "74": "74 is the atomic number of tungsten.", "75": "75 is the age limit for Canadian senators.", "76": "76 is the atomic number of osmium.", "77": "77 is the atomic number of iridium.", "78": "78 is the number of chromosomes in canine DNA.", "79": "79 is the record for cumulative weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts, held by Elvis Presley.", "80": "80 is a common limit for the characters per line in computing (derived from the number of columns in IBM cards).", "81": "81 is the number of stanzas or chapters in the Tao te Ching (in the most common arrangements).", "82": "82 is the atomic number of lead.", "83": "83 is the atomic number of bismuth.", "84": "84 is the atomic number of polonium.", "85": "85 is the atomic number of astatine.", "86": "86 is the device number for a lockout relay function in electrical circuit protection schemes.", "87": "87 is the number of tools in the Wenger Swiss Army Knife version XXL, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most multi-functional penknife.", "88": "88 is the number of keys on a piano (36 black and 52 white).", "89": "89 is the atomic number of actinium.", "90": "90 is the number of minutes in a football (soccer) match.", "91": "91 is the atomic number of protactinium.", "92": "92 is the number of pounds of sugar the average American child consumes per year.", "93": "93 is the atomic number of neptunium.", "94": "94 is the length of an NBA court in feet.", "95": "95 is the atomic number of americium.", "96": "96 is the rating of Skyrim on metacritic.com.", "97": "97 is the number of different characters that can be used with a standard English Keyboard.", "98": "98 is the highest jersey number allowed in the National Hockey League (as 99 was retired by the entire league to honor Wayne Gretzky).", "99": "99 is the highest jersey number allowed in most major league sports.", "100": "100 is the record number of points scored in one NBA game by a single player, set by Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors on March 2, 1962 I." }