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Quiz about This Quiz Weighs Ten Pounds Combined
Quiz about This Quiz Weighs Ten Pounds Combined

This Quiz Weighs Ten Pounds Combined


All questions and answers pertain to the word 'pound'. So, pound your brain, pound the keyboard, but if you get frustrated, please don't pound on your computer with a five pound hammer or it could cost you some serious pounds!

A multiple-choice quiz by krazykritik. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
krazykritik
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
323,565
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
2756
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Geoff30 (7/10), Guest 108 (9/10), Guest 73 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. In regard to money, the pound is used by a lot of different countries as their primary currency. Which of the following countries is most closely associated with the pound as its main monetary unit? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In many countries, food items are sold by the pound. Before the introduction of the metric system in some countries, one pound (lb.) was equal to sixteen ounces (oz.). Under the metric system which is based on grams (gm) and kilograms (kg), what exact weight is equal to the 16-ounce pound? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. 'Pound', like so many other words, has different grammatical uses and meanings. On what common household item will you usually find a 'pound' key? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. A common phrase used in the English language refers to when a person gets up early and goes walking for hours in search of a job. It is said that this person has to "pound" something. Which phrase about job-hunting am I referring to? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. One unpleasant definition of "pound" is to "strike vigorously, with repeated blows". This definition certainly alludes to how heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson pounded most of his opponents. With that in mind, which unbeaten fighter and IBF champion did Mike Tyson pound in 1988 in all of 91 seconds? (This fighter's brother, Leon, gave Muhammad Ali one of his few career defeats). Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The movie "Seven Pounds" (2008) starred Will Smith. In November 2008, it opened in five cities with all proceeds from the screening going to those regions' food banks. With "pound" being the theme of this quiz, what Shakespearean play was being referred to in the title of this movie? (Shylock, a character in the play, demanded his "pound of equal flesh"). Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The poet Ezra Loomis Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in Hailey Idaho. When WWII happened, Pound became enamored with Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Pound made anti-American radio broadcasts and was arrested as a traitor. Although deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, he still received punishment. Which of the following punishments did he receive? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "Pound" can also refer to one of my favourite desserts! Mix together flour, eggs, butter, fine sugar, some baking powder, a little salt, and some vanilla. Put it in a cooking container and place it the oven for about an hour at 350 degrees. What delicious dessert are you taking out of the oven sixty minutes later? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which of the following public service employees might have to utilize a certain type of "pound" for temporary keeping? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. There's an ancient proverb, which is over 760 years old, that says "___ is worth a 'pound' of cure". What four words am I looking for that are worth a 'pound' of cure? Hint



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1. In regard to money, the pound is used by a lot of different countries as their primary currency. Which of the following countries is most closely associated with the pound as its main monetary unit?

Answer: Great Britain

Also called pound sterling, the monetary unit called the "pound" is most closely associated with Great Britain and several other British territories. Countries such as Syria and Egypt also call their main money unit the pound, but those are based on a different central banking system and have different values than the British version.
2. In many countries, food items are sold by the pound. Before the introduction of the metric system in some countries, one pound (lb.) was equal to sixteen ounces (oz.). Under the metric system which is based on grams (gm) and kilograms (kg), what exact weight is equal to the 16-ounce pound?

Answer: 454 grams

The weight equivalence of a pound in metric units is 454 grams. When buying items by weight, most people ask for a half kilo of whatever they're purchasing, because it is close to a pound and saves time on exact calculation. If you're like me, I still ask for things in pounds and ounces and leave the calculating to the clerks! According to the metric weights, 28 grams is equal to one ounce. Considering there are 16 ounces in a pound and 28 grams in an ounce, then the amount of 454 grams in a pound doesn't make sense because 28gms X 16oz. = 448 grams! (It's because an ounce is actually equal to 28.2 gms).
3. 'Pound', like so many other words, has different grammatical uses and meanings. On what common household item will you usually find a 'pound' key?

Answer: telephone

Also referred to as the "number key", the pound key (#) is found on touch pad telephones. The symbol # is the same symbol used for the word "number". So if the symbol # is among numbers on the telephone pad, then why do they call it the "pound key" rather than a "number key"? To tell you the truth, I don't know! It's probably because the "pound key" is used as a separator or as an ending when punching in numbers regarding personal information. You've heard the voice on the other end say, "When you've completed punching in the numbers, please press the pound key." If they said, "Please press the number key", then fools like me would get all confused as which number from 0 to 9 I should press. Boy, this world can be unnecessarily confusing, don't you think?
4. A common phrase used in the English language refers to when a person gets up early and goes walking for hours in search of a job. It is said that this person has to "pound" something. Which phrase about job-hunting am I referring to?

Answer: pound the pavement

Most of us, at some time in our lives, have had to "pound the pavement" in search of work. It basically means to walk and walk for miles, going to every business you see to apply for a job. It can be tiring and, like one of the answer choices, sometimes can make one want to pound the guys who won't hire you! When I went to Western Canada looking for a job, I was "pounding the pavement" for several hours in a completely strange city, and finally found a position at a garage. Exhausted but thankful, I asked my new boss if he could tell me how to get back to my home address.

Hearing my address, he said,"Oh that's easy. Go to the end of this street, take a right, and it's the first street on your left". If I had only gone THAT way in the first place!
5. One unpleasant definition of "pound" is to "strike vigorously, with repeated blows". This definition certainly alludes to how heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson pounded most of his opponents. With that in mind, which unbeaten fighter and IBF champion did Mike Tyson pound in 1988 in all of 91 seconds? (This fighter's brother, Leon, gave Muhammad Ali one of his few career defeats).

Answer: Michael Spinks

Yep, "Iron" Mike Tyson surely did "pound" a lot of his opponents. He made a cool twenty million dollars for his 91 seconds of work in defeating Michael Spinks. If you break that down, it means he got paid $219,780.22 per second, which works out to the 'paltry' wage of $13,186,813.19 per minute. Of course, that comes out to an hourly wage of $791,208,791.21. How would you like to pick up your weekly paycheck and see that for a 'tough' forty hours, you only took in a little under $31.7 billion dollars? Just remember that the next time you're shoveling cow manure in a barn for $200 a week.
6. The movie "Seven Pounds" (2008) starred Will Smith. In November 2008, it opened in five cities with all proceeds from the screening going to those regions' food banks. With "pound" being the theme of this quiz, what Shakespearean play was being referred to in the title of this movie? (Shylock, a character in the play, demanded his "pound of equal flesh").

Answer: The Merchant of Venice

Will Smith announced that the idea behind the movie came from "The Merchant of Venice", in which a moneylender named Shylock makes the collateral for a loan a "pound of equal flesh". In the movie "Seven Pounds", Smith plays the part of a government employee who, through recklessness, causes a serious car accident which not only claims the life of seven people he did not know, but his wife's life also. So he quits his job, takes his brother's identity, and spends the next two years donating his organs to people he deems worthy, as atonement for his own carelessness. By doing this, he repays a "pound of equal flesh" as a way to pay off his debts to society.
7. The poet Ezra Loomis Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in Hailey Idaho. When WWII happened, Pound became enamored with Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Pound made anti-American radio broadcasts and was arrested as a traitor. Although deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, he still received punishment. Which of the following punishments did he receive?

Answer: twelve years in a mental institution

After being found mentally unstable, Ezra was committed to a mental institution in 1946, years before "I Love Lucy" even hit the airwaves. He was released in 1958 and immediately returned to Italy where he died in 1972. On a serious side, he was responsible for paving the way for newer poets to use poetic justice more freely, opening the door to a revitalized age in poetry, as well as being a brilliant editor for T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land".

Not too many know about Ezra Pound's escapades, so I had a little fun with this one's answer choices.
8. "Pound" can also refer to one of my favourite desserts! Mix together flour, eggs, butter, fine sugar, some baking powder, a little salt, and some vanilla. Put it in a cooking container and place it the oven for about an hour at 350 degrees. What delicious dessert are you taking out of the oven sixty minutes later?

Answer: pound cake

Yummy! Pound cake is one of my favourite deserts, especially when it's warm and you add butter and/or maple syrup on it! Adding some optional items such as lemon or orange peel, chocolate chips, or caramel pieces can make it even yummier! Ummm...excuse me, but I'm taking a break from this quiz-writing because I made myself hungry!
9. Which of the following public service employees might have to utilize a certain type of "pound" for temporary keeping?

Answer: all of them

An animal control officer usually takes the stray animals he catches to the pound. Tow truck operators often have to tow cars, which are repossessed, confiscated, abandoned, or illegally parked, to the car pound. Police officers who apprehend criminals and lawbreakers refer to their temporary holding cells as 'the pound'.
10. There's an ancient proverb, which is over 760 years old, that says "___ is worth a 'pound' of cure". What four words am I looking for that are worth a 'pound' of cure?

Answer: An ounce of prevention

According to Henry de Bracton's Latin translation from the 1240 AD book "De Legibus", "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". It still makes sense even centuries after its initial publication and is often used in a shortened form. The proverb means that it is easier to forestall a disaster than to deal with it.

For example, all minor league hockey players must wear helmets and face shields--that's what one could call "an ounce of prevention". And since they don't usually get injured when wearing those items, it makes the use of them "worth a pound of cure".
Source: Author krazykritik

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