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Measure Up
This is a quiz about units of measure and other numerical classifications of things.
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(2.63)
Difficulty:
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Quiz ID: #30172
Category:
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Submitted By:
follydog
Question #1
What does the ISBN identify?
Butterflys
Beetles
Books
Barbie dolls
Question #2
The Mohs scale measures?
Thickness of lumber
Rocket thrust
Volcano activity
Mineral hardness
Question #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
Question #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
Question #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
Question #6
A kilobyte, in common usage, is 1000 bytes.
True
False
Question #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
Question #8
The BESR and the BBCOR are used to measure what piece of sporting equipment?
Bowling balls
Hockey sticks
Horseshoes
Composite baseball bats
Question #9
Standard and Poor 500 is an index measuring the performance of what?
Stocks
SAT scores
NASCAR vehicle safety
Poverty threshold
Question #10
According to some manufacturers of measuring devices, how many smidgens are in a dash?
There ain't no such thing as a smidgen.
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