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See If You Can Measure Up

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Introduction:
"Some units of measurement are familiar to most people. Some units of measurement are familiar to few people. This quiz is about the latter types. Good luck."


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


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


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


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


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?
    Pig
    Goat
    Cow
    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?
    Limey
    Jigger
    Bumbo
    Tot


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


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


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