Sunday, April 8, 2012

Which is the world's most popular sport?

The world's most popular spot is soccer. It is more popular than football, basketball, or baseball. FIFA (Federation Internationale Association) has 4.1 million teams, and 200 million players in 190 countries around the world. More than one billion people watch the World Cup Final on TV every four years. In the most popular sport for soccer is not the most popular sport for spectators, but it is teens. Approximately 3 million  Americans under the age the age of nineteen player soccer.

Where are the largest shopping malls

The largest shopping mall in the world is theWest Edmonton in Edmonton, Canada.The mall has more than 800 retail stores,including eight deparment stores. There is also a 335-room hotel. It's much larger than the second largest mall in the world: this is the mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The U.S. mall has 400 stores. Its amusement attractions include a roller coaster. Some people spend their vacations at this mall. But in the future, the biggest stores probably are going to be on the computer; some online malls already say that they have stores in 100 countries.

What are the most successful movies?

American movies are the most popular films around the world. The most successful movie of the twentieth century was Titanic. People around the world paid almost $2 billion ($2,000,000,000!) and they saw the famous ship sink again. Titanic was more popular than Star Wars: Episode 1. This Star Wars film made almost $1 billion in the late 1990s Close behind this was Jurassic Park, a film about dinosaurs. And it's interesting that Titanic was also the most expensive film: it cost $200 million ($200,000,000) to make.

Where are the world's oldest people?

There are some regions in the world where people live longer than in other places. Three of these are the Republic of Georgia, in the former Soviet Union; the area near Vilcabamba in the Andes Mountains in Ecuador ; and the island of Okinawa in Japan. People in Okinawa have the longest life expectancy in the world: men live to an average age of 76.3, and women live to an average age of 83.7. In all three places, you can find many people over 100 year old. What is their secret? It's the good climate, good food, and quiet peaceful life.

Which was the biggest dinosaur ever?

It wasn't the Seismosaurus. At 150 feet (46 meters) long, the Seismosaurus was the longest animal ever. It wasn't the Ultrasaurus. That dinosaur was taller than a six-story building. No, the world's biggest dinosaur was the Argentinosaurus. Scientists found remains of this dinosaur in Nequen Province of Patagonia, Argentina. It was 110 feet (36 meters) long and weighed 100 tons (90,700 kilograms). That's heavier than twenty elephants.