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The Principal Financial Group® Family Fun Fest - Fun Facts Quiz

Test your knowledge of The Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest. Can you get them all right on the first try?

Questions about the Tour
True or False?
1. T F The Principal Financial Group® Family Fun Fest will visit more than 50 minor league teams and ballparks across the United States from March to August 2008.
2. T F In 2008, the Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest will visit a total of 50 teams for 51 events.
3. T F This is the first year the tour will be visiting Major League Spring Training games.
4. T F The tour will travel enough miles to make seven coast-to-coast trips across the the United States
5. T F The tour will visit 30 states and 50 cities with a combined population of nearly 25 million.
6 T F The midway will feature 10 midway attractions.
Questions about Nolan Ryan
7. T F Pitcher Nolan Ryan, National Tour Spokesperson, struck out more batters than any other player in history.
8. T F Nolan Ryan struck out 2,554 batters in his career.
9. T F One of Nolan Ryan's victims was quoted saying, "Nobody throws harder than Nolan Ryan, not even God."
Questions about the Midway
10. T F The tour will use 35,000 feet of tent space, enough to house an entire Army division for over a month.
11. T F The tour's 17 inflatables use enough vinyl to cover an entire football field nearly one and a quarter times.
12. T F 10,000 cubic yards of air will be used for the inflatables at each of 50 tour locations, which adds up to 500,000 cubic yards for the entire tour - equivalent to the air volume of an average tornado. Each day's event will use enough air to fill the Goodyear Blimp.
13. T F The festival will use 3,500 feet of power cords, which is half the length of the main runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
14. T F The total weight of all tour attractions and vehicles is equivalent to eight adult African Elephants, 16 US military Humvees four F-16 Falcon Jet fighters.
15. T F If all of the Fun Fest Midway attractions were lined up end-to-end, they would extend nearly 1,500 feet five football fields!
16. T F If all of the Midway Attraction inflatables were stacked on top of each other the tower would be 300 ft high; that's twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
17. T F Over the course of the tour, the crew will consume 2,550 meals, drink 10,000 beverages, and use over 23 cases of sun block, 12 cases of toothpaste, 10 cases of deodorant and 90 pounds of laundry detergent!

 

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