Ballpark

Puzzle #33 · 22 October 2026

The five questions from that day's Ballpark, each with its answer, the fact behind it and a link to the source. Rather play it first? It is in the archive.

1. About how many milligrams of sodium are in one teaspoon of table salt?

2,300 milligrams

About 2,300 mg, which is also the US daily limit for adults. Americans average about 3,400 mg a day, over 70% of it from packaged and prepared foods. Source

Image: Lexlex · CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

2. How wide is Victoria Falls, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, according to UNESCO?

1,708 meters

About 1,708 m wide, with an average drop of 100 m and 108 m at the deepest point. UNESCO calls it the world's greatest sheet of falling water. Source

Image: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

3. What is the greatest distance ever covered by the winning car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (record set in 2010)?

5,411 kilometers

5,410.7 km, or 397 laps, by an Audi R15 TDI+ in 2010. That is an average of about 225 km/h kept up for a full day. Source

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4. How tall is Hyperion, the world's tallest known living tree (as measured in 2019)?

116 meters

116.07 m in 2019, up from 115.55 m when the California coast redwood was first measured in 2006. Source

Image: Chmee2 · CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

5. About how many people worldwide watched the Apollo 11 Moon landing on television in 1969, according to NASA?

650M people

An estimated 650 million. They saw Neil Armstrong's televised image and heard him describe his 'one small step' on July 20, 1969. Source

Image: White House Photo Office · Public domain