McDonald's Trivia

​Part 1
Besides America, what country is home to the most McDonald’s restaurants?
China          Japan          Canada          France

The US is #1 for McDonald's with 14,146 locations. We love our Golden Arches! Did you figure out who's in second place?

t’s not even close, but Japan claims the honor with 2,975 restaurants in the country. You can still get Big Macs, Quarter Pounders, Happy Meals, and McFlurries, but in Japan you can also order Mega Macs, Bacon Lettuce Burgers, Ebi Filet-O, and McPork. Warning – you’ll have to give up your supersize drinks and free refills. They’re not on the menu.

Click on this link to find Mcdonald's ten happiest countries.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/091716/10-countries-most-mcdonalds-locations-mcd.asp
​Question source: https://www.traveltrivia.com/answer-besides-america-what-country-is-home-to-the-most-mcdonalds-restaurants/.”

​Map Source: By Connormah - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6913659
​Source for menu (with pictures): https://delishably.com/dining-out/JapanMcDonalds

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​Part 2
​Take a look at that world map again. Which country has the only ski-through McDonald’s?
​Canada       France       Russia        Sweden

It’s Sweden. Want to visit? Take a trip to the Lindvallen ski resort. It’s 200 miles north of Stockholm. The ski-through opened in 2014, and it’s still going strong.

You can go inside. There’s room for 140 people. But if you’re in a hurry, you’ll ski up to the window, place your order, and pick it up. No need to mess with coats and gloves. You’re back on the slopes – and you’re loving it!

Click on the first source if you’d like to look at the Swedish ski-through.
Delish | Date Updated: December 18, 2019 
https://www.traveltrivia.com/answer-which-country-has-a-ski-through-mcdonalds/
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My map source:  By Rob984 - Derived from File:Germany on the globe (Germany centered).svg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70142703

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The Finale
What food is named in the words of this old commercial?
The words . . . 2 all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese ,  pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun.
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​The answer: The McDonald’s Big Mac
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Would you believe I missed it by one word? I had ‘and’ instead of ‘on a sesame seed bun.’ The commercial originally aired December of 1974. That was 46 years ago. I was a high school sophomore. Not bad! I didn’t catch my error until I looked at the YouTube link. Not bad for my 60-year-old memory!

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That’s great in the world of memory retention! To get my last teacher’s license, I took a brain class about six years ago. My teacher said jingles were a great way to remember something. Do you remember ‘Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief it is.’ That’s the old Alka-Seltzer jingle, written in 1953. I was born in 1959.

It worked on my second graders! I used it to teach them animals (mammal, insect, etc.) and for landforms (plateaus, plains, etc.) I thought my kids did better later on those tricky tests too. My brain teacher said her students would lip-sinc those songs during tests. Too True! Some of my second graders did too!

​PS – Want to add another layer to help your memory along? Try adding motions. I did it with landforms. (Example – arm held straight out was a plain – flat land.)

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​Click the link to hear this ad from 1974. Watch for Gordon Jump. (He was the station manager for the old TV show, WKRP in Cincinnati.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEBCV0ic6Tc
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This link was from 1975. My brain teacher would say ‘repeat to remember. Remember to repeat.’ That’s what this commercial had us doing back in 1974/75. Oh, the good old days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK2qBbDn5W0
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​Enjoy! I hope you’re loving it! (No LOL – that's another McDonald’s commercial.)

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