Ballpark
Puzzle #42 · 31 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. How many miles had the highest-mileage car on record, a 1966 Volvo kept by one owner, covered when Guinness World Records logged it in May 2014?
3.04M miles
3,039,122 miles. Owner Irv Gordon passed the three-million mark in Alaska in 2013, driving 85,000 to 100,000 miles a year. Source
Image: Herranderssvensson · CC0
2. What is the highest possible score, known as a perfect game, in the original Pac-Man arcade game?
3.33M points
3,333,360 points. Guinness dates the first perfect game to 3 July 1999, almost two decades after the machine reached arcades in 1980. Source
3. According to Coca-Cola's 2023 annual report, how many servings of the company's drinks are consumed worldwide each day?
2.2B servings
2.2 billion servings a day, out of an estimated 64 billion servings of all beverages drunk worldwide daily. That is roughly 1 in every 29. Source
Image: Bjørn Erik Pedersen · CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
4. How much did Disney agree to pay for Lucasfilm in 2012?
4.05B US dollars
$4.05 billion for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, paid about half in cash and half in Disney stock. Source
Image: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
