My friend asked me to do a cake for her daughter's 16th birthday that she's going to serve to the Academic Bowl team at school. So, my idea is to write "Happy Birthday, Emily" on the top, then to surround that with all different sorts of trivia questions that would have the answer "16".
For example: 1/9 of a gross? Sulfur's atomic #? ..... but, I'm really lacking in questions about geography!
If any of you could come up with some, I'd be very, very grateful!!!
More of a history than geography question - What was the 16th state? Who was the 16th President? Wait I just realized you would have to flip those (Abraham Lincoln was President #...)
Geography is definately a hard one! Maybe there is a famous lake that is 16 mi across?
Is there a continent with 16 countries? or how about a hexadecagon, it's a 16-sided shape! This seems simple but it's hard...P is the 16th letter of the alphabet
Which line of latitude divides North and South Vietnam?
In the Public Land Survey System, which section of each township was set aside for school purposes?
How many lakes make up the Rotorua Lakes region of New Zealand?
(Can you tell I'm a geographer?) 
How many personality types are classified under the Myers-Briggs classification system?
How many liangs are in one jin?
How many pawns are there in a chess set?
How many pieces does each player in a game of chess begin with?
In music, a whole note is divided into how many semiquavers?
What is the highway number of Canada's Yellowhead Highway?
Which King Louis was beheaded during the French Revolution?
There have been how many Popes named Benedict?
The M_ is the US military designation for the AR-15 rifle.
How many digits are in Visa and MasterCard account numbers?
What is the number of the French department Charente?
Which Amendment to the US Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results?
On what birthday is Sleeping Beauty fated to fall into a magicked slumber?
What US Interstate runs from I-75 in Macon, GA to Montgomery St in Savannah, GA?
What is the name of the restaurant on the floor of the same designation in the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago?
_ Candles is the name of what 1984 film starring Molly Ringwald?
According to the song, loading how many tons gets you another day older and deeper in debt?
How many named colors can be used by name to define color in HTML and Cascading Style Sheets?
There are how many dead men in the poem by William Butler Yeats?
Sports questions:
What is the number of the car driven by Greg Biffle in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races?
What was the number of Peyton Manning's jersey when he was on the University of Tennessee's football team?
What jersey number did Joe Montana wear whe the SanFrancisco 49ers won 4 Super Bowls?
Math questions:
What cardinal number is written as XVI in Roman numerals?
What is 4 squared?
What is 1/2 of 32?
What is the square root of 256?
What is the smallest number with exactly 5 divisors?
What is the fourth power of two?
How many ounces are in an avoirdupis pound?
How many liquid ounces are in a pint?
What is the only integer that equals both m to the power of n AND n to the power of n, where m does not equal n?
What number comes next in the Padovan sequence 7, 9, 12?
What is the smallest ErdõsWoods number?
Unfortunately, I ended up not being able to do this cake. I got a call last Thursday that my daughter was in the hospital in New Orleans. I ended up staying down there with her until yesterday morning -- 3 trips to the ER in one week, ugh!
Anyway, my friend promised that I can use this idea for the same occasion next year. She told me to start thinking of questions that would have the answer 17!!
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