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Question Asked: How Many Volts of Electricity Are In A Bolt of Lightning?
The average lightning bolt produces about 900,000,000 volts of electricity. Some bigger strikes are believed to have produced up to twice that amount.
Obviously, this is a scientific guess, based on years of research. It’s near impossible to measure an actual lightning bolt.
900 million volts of electricity is enough to power an entire neighborhood of homes for roughly one week.
Question Asked: How Many Bands Played at Woodstock?
For those of us who are too young to have been there, and don’t know what it was — Woodstock was a three day music festival, that took place in upstate New York. It ran from August 15th – 18th, 1969.
32 of the biggest bands of the time played at the event. There was no stopping, there were no breaks. It was three full days and nights worth of music, love, drugs, and mud. Yes, mud. It rained quite a bit.
The 32 bands that played where:
Day One:
- Richie Havens
- Swami Satchidananda
- Country Joe McDonald
- John B. Sebastian
- Sweetwater
- Incredible String Band
- Bert Sommer
- Tim Hardin
- Ravi Shankar
- Melanie
- Arlo Guthrie
- Joan Baez
Day Two
- Quill
- Keef Hartley Band
- Santana
- Canned Heat
- Grateful Dead
- Mountain
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Sly & The Family Stone
- Janis Joplin
- The Who
Day Three
- Jefferson Airplane
- Joe Cocker
- Country Joe & The Fish
- Ten Years After
- The Band
- Blood Sweat and Tears
- Johnny Winter
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Sha-Na-Na
- Jimi Hendrix
There were also some bands scheduled to play that had to cancel:
- Jeff Beck Group (they broke up the month before Woodstock)
- Iron Butterfly (got stuck at the airport)
- Joni Mitchell (she appeared on the “The Dick Cavett Show” instead)
- Lighthouse (were afraid of performing)
- Ethan Brown (was arrested on Tuesday, August 12th and was in jail.)
Some bands that were invited, but declined to play:
- The Beatles (Lennon said he couldn’t get them together for the show)
- Led Zeppelin (Got more money to play somewhere else)
- Bob Dylan (Hated hippies. Really? Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?)
- The Byrds (Their first American show had gotten violent, and they were afraid to come back.)
- Tommy James & The Shondells (They were told that the event was much smaller than it was, and turned it down due to not wanting to waste their time.)
- Jethro Tull (They said no because they thought it wasn’t a big event.)
- The Moody Blues (reasons unknown)
- Mind Garage (Got more money playing somewhere else.)
There you have it. Everything you could want to know about the lineup of Woodstock’s Music Festival.
Question Asked: How Many Pringles Are In A Can?
According to official answers, it varies between 84 and 86 chips, depending on the number that the can you’ve got is, in line.
For example, the 505th can in line, gets 84, the 506th gets 86. It varies depending on what the last can the day before was produced, etc, but generally 84 is a safe bet.
Question Asked: How Many Breeds of Penguins Are There?
Not counting breeds that are extinct: 18. Those breeds include:
- Emperor
- King
- Adelie
- Gentoo
- Chinstrap
- Rockhopper
- Macaroni
- Royal
- Fiordland Crested
- Erect-crested
- Snares Island
- Yellow-eyed
- Fairy
- Magellanic
- Humbolot
- Galapagos
- Joshua
And there you have it, all 18 breeds of penguins.
Question Asked: How Many Star Trek Movies Have There Been?
Including the Star Trek that just came out last week, there’s been a total of 11 Star Trek movies.
Those movies are:
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek: The Search for Spock
- Star Trek: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek: Generations
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Star Trek: Insurrection
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Star Trek
So there you have it. All 11 Star Trek movies, listed for your convenience.