- QFTCIMI520 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: units, CFL - 3 Updates
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 02 09:39AM -0700 On 6/1/20 3:13 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > | Frigorie | Nail | Wheaton > 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to > 63 US gallons? hogshead > 2. What measure, defined as the amount of land tillable in one > plowing season, is equal to about 15 acres? oxgang > 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half > an octet? nibble (often spelled nybble) > 4. What is defined as 500,000 Twitter followers? Wheaton > 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height > of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the > length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? Smoot > 6. What is defined as a measure of time equal to 15 minutes? Warhol > 7. What is defined as the smallest detectable movement of a > computer mouse? smidgen > 8. What is defined as the risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance > of death? micromort > 9. What is defined as the amount of odor of one standard person? Furman > 10. What unit of measure is, or has been, used by physicists to > talk about gravitational acceleration? siriometer -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 02 09:55PM +0200 > * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Unusual Units of Measurement > 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to > 63 US gallons? Barrel > 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half > an octet? Nibble > 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height > of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the > length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? Firkin > 8. What is defined as the risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance > of death? Micromort |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jun 03 03:40AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:bZqdnZS4caLr4EjDnZ2dnUU7- > | Frigorie | Nail | Wheaton > 1. What is defined as a measure of capacity for wine equal to > 63 US gallons? Hogshead; Firkin > plowing season, is equal to about 15 acres? > 3. What is defined in computing as a 4-bit aggregation, or half > an octet? Nibble > 5. What is defined as a length equal to exactly 5'7" -- the height > of an MIT freshman in 1958 when he was used to measure the > length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge? Warhol > QB who went on to become the premier of Alberta. > 4. The first Grey Cup game was played in Toronto on 1909-12-04 at > Rosedale Field. Name *either* team involved. Be specific. Montreal Alouettes; Ottawa Rough Riders > 10. The Calgary Stampeders celebrate touchdowns by racing their > touchdown horse down the sidelines. How do the Ottawa Redblacks > celebrate touchdowns at their home stadium? Pete Gayde |
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