Braingle: 'Measure Up' Trivia Quiz

This is a quiz about units of measure and other numerical classifications of things.

Quiz ID:	#30172
Fun:	(2.63)
Difficulty:	(1.94)
Category:	Other
Created By:	follydog

#1 What does the ISBN identify?

Butterflys
Beetles
Books
Barbie dolls

#2 The Mohs scale measures?

Thickness of lumber
Rocket thrust
Volcano activity
Mineral hardness

#3 Ordinary Time is ...

A season in the Catholic Church calendar
The amount of time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to the planet Mercury
12:00 midnight on the summer solstice
Time as we know it in our dimension

#4 What does the Drake's equation "guesstimate"?

Number of ships needed to defeat the Spanish Armada
Average wind velocity to produce 1 megawatt of electricity
Number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy
Ship's velocity based on wind and current speed

#5 What does an imperial gill measure?

Thickness of a ship's main beam, where 1 imperial gill is 5.25 inches
Liquid, where 1 imperial gill is 5 imperial fluid ounces
Army size, where 1 imperial gill is 248 soldiers
Thread count in a yard of cloth, where 1 imperial gill is 125 threads

#6 A kilobyte, in common usage, is 1000 bytes.

True
False

#7 The K or Köchel number refers to a chronological catalog number of whose creative works?

Charles Dickens
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
William Shakespeare
Pablo Picasso

#8 The BESR and the BBCOR are used to measure what piece of sporting equipment?

Bowling balls
Hockey sticks
Horseshoes
Composite baseball bats

#9 Standard and Poor 500 is an index measuring the performance of what?

Stocks
SAT scores
NASCAR vehicle safety
Poverty threshold

#10 According to some manufacturers of measuring devices, how many smidgens are in a dash?

There ain't no such thing as a smidgen.
8
4
2

Measure Up