16 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

• The current Roman Catholic Pope is Pope Benedict XVI
• King of France (August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis XVI of France
• There are sixteen ounces in an avoirdupois pound
• There are sixteen pawns in a chess set and each player in a chess game starts with sixteen pieces

• "The Sixteen" is an English choir performing early religious music
• Sixteen is a Polish band that represented Poland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest
• The Cadillac Sixteen
• There are sixteen different personality types in the Myers-Briggs classification system
• A note played for one-sixteenth the duration of a whole note is called a sixteenth note or a semiquaver
• In the 16-bit era, 16-bit microprocessor ran 16-bit applications
• Sixteen Kingdoms, part of Chinese history
• Canada's Yellowhead Highway is designated as Highway 16
• Interstate 16 is the designation for a US interstate highway in Georgia
• The fighter jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon
• 16 mm film was originally an amateur movie format, but is now used by professionals
• "16" is a song by American band Green Day
• The M16 rifle
• The number 16 is the symbol of the Day of solidarity with political prisoners and victims of the Lukashenka regime in Belarus, which is commemorated on 16th of every months by demonstrations and flash mobs worldwide
• A sixteen is a slang term for a verse in a hip hop song, which are often written in sixteen-bar stanzas.
• Android 16 of the Dragon Ball Z television series
• The amount of waking hours in a day in an "8 hours of sleep" schedule
• In the story of the Sleeping Beauty, a spell is placed on the princess that when she reaches her 16th birthday, she will "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die"
• 16 is the number of the French department Charente
• Many bank card numbers are 16 digits long
• There is a No Doubt song titled "Sixteen" on the album Tragic Kingdom
• There are sixteen race tracks in Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
• The metalcore band Demon Hunter has a song titled "Sixteen" on their Storm the Gates of Hell album
• 16 is one of "the Numbers" on the television series Lost
• 16 is the number printed on the front of the Johnny Hero -one of the earliest action figures- jogging suit