Weights & Measurements

How do you measure up? Find out in this trivia game where you're in for a penny if you're in for a pound.

15 questions · Published July 12, 2021

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

Multiple Choice
1. A furlong, most often used in horse racing, is a unit of distance equivalent to how many yards?
FUN FACT
Dating back to early Anglo-Saxon times, the furlong was the distance a team of oxen could plow a furrow without resting. Which is now 220 yards.
Multiple Choice
2. In the award-winning musical "Rent", the famous song "Seasons of Love" lets you know there are how many minutes in a year?
FUN FACT
There are 525,600 minutes in a year. However, if it's a leap year, you have to add another 1,440 minutes.
Multiple Choice
3. The U.S. uses the pound to measure weight. What British imperial unit does the United Kingdom and Ireland still use to measure body weight?
FUN FACT
The stone is an English and imperial unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (approximately 6.35 kg).
Fill In The Blank
4. If you go to a bakery and order a baker's dozen, how many of that item will you receive?
The baker's dozen is thirteen due to baking sometimes being inexact as far as size of output. In order to please customers, the baker would throw in an extra item on top of what was ordered.
Multiple Choice
5. Which of the following antiquated units of volume is actually the largest?
A Barrel is equivalent to 42 gallons, compared to a Gill's .03 gallons, a Peck's 2.3 gallons, and a Bushel's 9.3 gallons.

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