Thursday, June 04, 2020

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Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Jun 03 02:35PM

On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:13:10 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> | Warhol | 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
 
 
> 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?
 
> 7. What is defined as the smallest detectable movement of a
> computer mouse?
 
mickey
 
> 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?
 
big max index
 
> gloves in freezing conditions and was hampered by the opinion that he
> could not win in cold weather after losing two Western Finals at home
> in Calgary.
 
Doug Flutie
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