So I just flipped to a random page in my Top 10 List of Everything book and landed on this one: Top 10 Countries with the Highest Prison Populations. I thought this might be an interesting one to blog about tonight. As usual, I’m going to make my guesses before looking at the answer. I’m […]

Okay, my guess to this random top 10 list is: United States, China and Russia (former USSR). I’m thinking these would be the top three when ranked on number of road miles. Now the top 10 from The World Factbook 2007 (country followed by miles of roads).

USA, 3,995,643
India, 2,102,312
China, 1,162,374
Brazil, 1,088,560
Japan, 735,982
Canada, 647,655
France, 594,219
Russia, 541,214
Australia, […]

Okay, without reading the answer to this random top 10 list, I’m going to guess: The Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, and maybe something like the Ladies’ Home Journal. Now here are the top 10 according to my great book The Top 10 of Everything 2008:

Scientific American, 1845
Town & Country, 1846
Harper’s, 1850
The Moravian, 1856
The Atlantic Monthly, […]

Okay, my guess for the top three without looking was: the New York Times, LA Times and Chicago Tribune. I had no idea that the WSJ and USA Today would be higher than all of these. The top 10, with their circulation in 2006 are:

USA Today, 2,528,437
The Wall Street Journal, 2,058,342
The New York Times, 1,683,855
Los […]

Okay, so I told myself I’m going to flip to a random page of my top 10 list book and write about the first one I see. Unfortunately, tonight I landed on top 10 cosmetic surgeries. Here’s my process… first I look at the title of the list and then try to think what the […]

The following are the top 10 largest cities in the world, based on “urban agglomerations” as defined by the United Nations. This method of counting disregards administrative boundaries of the more extensive areas that stretch across densely populated suburbs.
Rank, City, County, Population (in millions)

Tokyo, Japan, 33.4
Seoul, South Korea, 23.1
Mexico City, Mexico, 22.0
New York, US, 21.8
Mumbai […]

Okay, this Top 10 list is of the world’s religions with the most adherents. The list is sourced from a book called “The Top 10 of Everything 2008.” I found the book in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble and since I’m always on my quest to beat my wife at Jeopardy, I thought […]