April 15, a day dreaded by taxpayers around the nation, shares an annual frivolous counterpart: Take a Wild Guess Day.

Motivational speaker Jim Barber figured to bring some relief to the laborious and stressful process of getting tax returns in the mail before the midnight deadline, being scrupulously careful not to make any mistakes.

So he created a day where celebrators can operate on hunches, intuition and, of course, wild guesses.

There isn’t much else to be said for the day except to offer an opportunity to celebrate it with some questions that, for most, will require wild guesses.

QUIZ

1. How many 14-inch pizzas would it take to cover a football field (including the end zones)?

2. What is the most common surname in the world?

3. What are the 10 most common surnames in the United States?

4. How fast are you moving right now?

5. How many bubbles are there in a standard 750 ml bottle of champagne?

6. What are the three most common street names in America?

7. The value of pi has been calculated to how many decimal places?

8. How many pounds of man-made material has been left on the moon?

9. What are the five top selling board games of all time?

10. (This one is going to take a real wild guess) According to the International System of Units, what is the definition of one second of time?

ANSWERS

1. 53,860.

2. Lee (or Li).

3. They are, in order: Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, Brown, Davis, Miller, Wilson, Moore and Taylor.

4. All motion is relative to a particular point of reference. Therefore, in relation to the ground below you, you are likely not moving at all right now. But you rotate with the Earth at up to 1,000 mph (at the equator). And you are a 66,500 mph passenger on the “blue marble’s” trip around the sun. The sun is taking the planets for a ride around the Milky Way at 483,000 mph. And the Milky Way and the other galaxies in its “local group” are zipping through the universe at — fasten your seat belts — 1.2 million mph.

5. 49 million. Scientist Bill Lembeck calculated this several years ago.

6. In order, they are Second, Third and First. The reason First is not, er, first, is that it is called Main Street in many municipalities. Main Street is seventh on the list, but Main and First combined far exceed the number of Second streets.

7. 12.1 trillion. The computer programmers were shooting for 20 trillion digits but ran out of disk space.

8. 400,000 pounds (200 tons), including wreckage from 70 spacecraft, five American flags, boots, cameras, geological tools, monuments and a pair of golf balls.

9. Chess ranks first, followed by checkers, backgammon, Scrabble and Monopoly.

10. The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the cesium 133 atom in its ground state at a temperature of 0 degrees Kelvin.