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One tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. Those are common terms, familiar to most. What is the term for 1/8 teaspoon? |
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What is the term for something seven feet long? |
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What is another name for ten duotrigintillion? |
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If a dozen is 12, and a gross is 12 dozen, what is a dozen gross? |
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Surveyors have a term for an area of approximately 36 square miles. What is this term? |
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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? |
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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? |
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What is the term for a container which can hold 252 gallons of beer? |
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If you were told to build an ark with dimensions in cubits, how would you know what a cubit was? |
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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? |
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