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1. One tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. Those are common terms, familiar to most. What is the term for 1/8 teaspoon? Gill Coffee spoon Dash Soupcon

2. What is the term for something seven feet long? Hexapedalian Nonapedalian Septipedalian Quintipedalian

3. What is another name for ten duotrigintillion? Googol Gazillion Yahoo Centillion

4. If a dozen is 12, and a gross is 12 dozen, what is a dozen gross? Vigesimal gross Awesome gross Great gross Dozenal

5. Surveyors have a term for an area of approximately 36 square miles. What is this term? Township Shireship Cityship Fellowship

6. Old time ships needed ballast in the hull to add weight for stability. The English had a term for a quantity of 301 pounds of ballast. What was this term? Cow Pig Goat March hare

7. Back when the British Navy would issue its sailors a daily ration of rum, the ration was 1/8 pint or about 2.5 ounces. What was the name for this size rum ration? Tot Bumbo Limey Jigger

8. What is the term for a container which can hold 252 gallons of beer? Sheepshead Magnum Kilderkin Tun

9. If you were told to build an ark with dimensions in cubits, how would you know what a cubit was? Length of the forearm Length of the lower leg Length of the foot Length of head of a cow

10. Parsec is a term used in astronomy to indicate the distance in light years to a celestial body. One parsec is defined as the distance from the Earth to a body that has a parallax of 1 arcsecond. An arcsecond is 1/60 of 1/60 of 1/360 (or 1/1,296,000) of a circle. A kiloparsec, then, is a distance of 1,000 parsecs. Approximately how far is a kiloparsec? 1,000 light years 3,259 light years 3.14 light years 1,234 light years