{ "1": "1 is the number of dimensions of a line.", "2": "2 is the lowest channel of television in the United States, Canada, Argentina and Mexico on which television signals are broadcast.", "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 strings on a violin, a viola, a cello, double bass, a cuatro and a ukulele, and the number of string pairs on a mandolin.", "5": "5 is the number of dots in a quincunx.", "6": "6 is the number of orders of the Mishnah.", "7": "7 is the number of estimated objects that can be simultaneously held in human working memory.", "8": "8 is the number of planets in the Solar System.", "9": "9 is the number of circles of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy.", "10": "10 is the number of fingers on a pair of human hands.", "11": "11 is the approximate periodicity of a sunspot cycle in years.", "12": "12 is the number of basic hues in the color wheel (3 primary colors (red, yellow, blue), 3 secondary colors (orange, green & purple) and 6 tertiary colors).", "13": "13 is the number of unique ranks in a suit in a pack of cards.", "14": "14 is the maximum number of electrons that can fit in an f sublevel.", "15": "15 is the length in miles of a train of boxcars that can be filled from recycled paper in the USA every day.", "16": "16 is the minimum age for getting an adult job in most states and provinces across the globe.", "17": "17 is the maximum number of strokes of a Chinese radical.", "18": "18 is the number of colors the labels for Crayola crayons come in.", "19": "19 is the number of years in 235 lunations.", "20": "20 is the number of ounces in Venti size coffees at Starbucks coffee shops.", "21": "21 is the number of points required to win a game in badminton and table tennis (before 2001).", "22": "22 is the typical length in minutes of a half hour sitcom not including commercials.", "23": "23 is the number of enigma that plays a prominent role in the plot of The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.", "24": "24 is the number of points on a backgammon board.", "25": "25 is the (critical) number of Florida electoral votes for the 2000 U.S. presidential election.", "26": "26 is the number of episodes in a television program each year (usually).", "27": "27 is the total number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet (22 regular letters and 5 final consonants).", "28": "28 is the number of grams in an ounce (approximately), and used as such in the illegal drug trade.", "29": "29 is the number of attributes existing according to The Strokes in You Only Live Once.", "30": "30 is the number of tracks on The Beatles' eponymous album, usually known as The White Album.", "31": "31 is the number of days in the months January, March, May, July, August, October and December.", "32": "32 is the number of pages in the average comic book (not including the cover).", "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 minimum age of candidates for election to the United States Presidency.", "36": "36 is the number of vehicles that run in each race of NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series.", "37": "37 is the cost in cents of the Whopper Sandwich when Burger King first introduced it in 1957.", "38": "38 is the number of minutes in the shortest war in history in which Zanzibar surrendered to England in 1896.", "39": "39 is the duration, in nanoseconds, of the nuclear reaction in the largest nuclear explosion ever performed (Tsar bomb).", "40": "40 is the number of attempts needed before the creation of the \"water displacing\" substance in the spray WD-40.", "41": "41 is the age at which writer/director Tom Graeff (of Teenagers from Outer Space fame) committed suicide.", "42": "42 is the number of laws of cricket.", "43": "43 is the maximum number of cars participating in a NASCAR race in the Cup Series or Nationwide Series.", "44": "44 is the percentage of kids who watch television before they go to sleep in the US.", "45": "45 is the sapphire wedding anniversary in years of marriage.", "46": "46 is the number of samurai, out of 47, who carried out the attack in the historical Ako vendetta.", "47": "47 is the total numbers of balloons that a player can collect in Rareware's Nintendo 64 game Diddy Kong Racing.", "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 traditional number of years in a jubilee period.", "51": "51 is the atomic number of antimony.", "52": "52 is the approximate number of weeks in a year.", "53": "53 is the total number of national football associations of UEFA.", "54": "54 is the score in golf colloquially referred to as a perfect round.", "55": "55 is the number of Delegates who attended the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.", "56": "56 is the number of consecutive games in baseball in which New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio had a base hit in 1941, still a record.", "57": "57 is the number of people at 20th Century Fox Studios died amid rioting and suicide.", "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 number of seconds in a minute.", "61": "61 is the number of points required to win a \"standard\" game of Cribbage.", "62": "62 is the number which Sigmund Freud has an irrational fear of.", "63": "63 is the number of groats in a guinea in British pre-decimal currency.", "64": "64 is number of golden disks in the myth of the Tower of Hanoi.", "65": "65 is the minimum grade required to pass an exam, or class, in many areas.", "66": "66 is the total number of books in the Protestant edition of the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament) combined.", "67": "67 is the highest two-digit odd number not presently designating any highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States.", "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 atomic number of lutetium.", "72": "72 is the speed in miles per hour that cheetahs, the fastest land animal, can reach.", "73": "73 is the favorite number of The Big Bang Theory's character Sheldon Cooper.", "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 the standard TCP/IP port number used for HTTP connections.", "81": "81 is the number of squares on a shogi playing board.", "82": "82 is the atomic number of lead.", "83": "83 is the highest UHF channel on older televisions made before the late 1970s.", "84": "84 is the atomic number of polonium.", "85": "85 is the IQ and nickname of Aaron in Alien 3.", "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 approximate number of days it takes Mercury to complete its orbit.", "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 percentage of water in watermelons.", "93": "93 is the atomic number of neptunium.", "94": "94 is the atomic number of plutonium.", "95": "95 is the NBA record for Most Assists in a 7-game playoff series (by Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1984).", "96": "96 is the rating of Skyrim on metacritic.com.", "97": "97 is the number of minutes it takes the Hubble space telescope to complete an orbit around the Earth.", "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 number of names of Allah, the names or attributes of God in the Qur'an.", "100": "100 is the number of years in a century." }