Ever heard of the FFF (furlong/firkin/fortnight) system of measurement? Since a fortnight = 14 days or 1,209,600 seconds, and a furlong = 660 ft (201 m), the speed of light may be expressed as being roughly 1.8 terafurlongs per fortnight (or 1.8 megafurlongs per microfortnight). If you find this even vaguely amusing, then you will surely enjoy my quiz 🙂
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All information correct per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
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A Muggeseggele is a humorous idiom used in Swabia (Germany) to designate a nonspecific very small length; Muggeseggele literally means…
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A housefly’s scrotum
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A mosquito’s egg
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A drop of dirty water
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In issue 33, Mad magazine published the “Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures” developed by 19- year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed computer scientist. Its basis was the Potrzebie unit of length, equal to…
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The width of a trillion microbes
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The thickness of Mad issue 26
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The distance Knuth could spit
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In which sport is an Altuve (called after player José Altuve), an informal unit measuring 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m)?
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Golf
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Three-dimensional chess
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Baseball
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In the Zork game series, the Great Underground Empire had its own system of measurements, including the bloit, which was defined as…
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The length of time a battery-powered brass lantern can shine for
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The distance the king’s favourite pet could run in one hour
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The number of zorkmids it costs to buy a gloop of ale
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In computer operating systems, the interval between system timer interrupts usually varies between between 1 and 10 milliseconds. It is known in the trade as…
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A jiffy
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A mo
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A micro-cornflake
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A Sheppey is a measure of distance equal to about 7⁄8 of a mile (1.4 km), defined as…
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The closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque
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The maximum distance at which a sheep-dog can correctly interpret its owner’s whistles
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The distance that a firkin of ale will travel before dissipating, while flowing down the hill outside Dublin’s Black Sheep Brewery
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The beard-second is a unit of length (inspired by the light-year), defined as the length an average beard grows in one second. it is…
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One thousandth of a metre
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One millionth of a metre
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Ten billionths of a metre (1/100,000,000 metre)
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The mathematician John von Neumann used the term Microcentury (one millionth of a century) to denote the maximum length of any lecture he would give. How long is that approximately?
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53 minutes
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28 minutes
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1 hour and 14 minutes
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According to Terry Pratchett, a New York Second (“the shortest unit of time in the multiverse”) is defined as…
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The length of time it takes for your mouth to start salivating, after someone passes you eating a pastrami sandwich
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The period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking
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The length of time it takes for a subway car to fill up at rush-hour
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Helen of Troy is widely known as “the face that launched a thousand ships”. Thus, what is the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship?
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1 microhelen
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1 millihelen
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1 megahelen
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What is one Warhol equal to?
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Umpteen New York galleries
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$105 million (the price paid for Warhol’s 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash)
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Fifteen minutes of fame
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I like quiz but got #4 out of 11, i think not good,
Don’t worry, Zahid – it was just a fun quiz, and I doubt anyone got a high score! Thank you for playing 🙂
Jiffy is a common term here, or it was when I was growing up. “Be there in a jiffy.” Someone stole it from someone, surely?
Here, too, Kathy. I think the humour lies in how the indefinite ‘jiffy’ was co-opted into the extreme precision of computer science 🙂
Three! Guess I got lucky to fluke them. What fun!
I got only 2 right… will try again-
Oh dear! Try again, Edith 🙂
Four out of Eleven, most were guesses.
Pretty much everyone’s answers are all guesses on this quiz, I reckon! Thanks for playing, Kim 🙂
Got 5/11…Jiffy is only my sure answer, the rest wild guesses…nice quiz Norman, so extraordinary… 🙂
Good job!
Thank you, Traf! Well done, knowing the jiffy. As for the rest, I think everyone is guessing 😉
Haha very much welcome Norman…thanks for this quiz 🙂 somehow the jiffy has been introduced 🙂
I got 7 out of 11
Thank you for sharing
I hope you had fun, LaJenna 🙂 Thanks for playing!
I got 7/11 right, would you like a slurpee with that?
Yes please! Well done, Alex 🙂
And here is your slurpee, please come again!
I got 5 out of 11….fun quiz although I mostly guessed!
Fun is the key in a quiz like this, Mom!
9 out of 11. This was fun!
Fun is most important, but you got a fine score too 🙂
You got 4 out of 11 right!
Could be better
Never mind the score, Elenka! This one was purely for fun 🙂
#9 was my favorite and I got it right! But only got a total of 5 correct.
Yes, that one is up there with Helen of Troy as my favourite too, Carol 😀