(You will find the answers at the end of this post…enjoy!)
- Let’s start off with, how many inches in a foot? 9inches, 12inches or 14inches?
2. How many ounces are there in a pound? 9, 12, 14 or 16?
3. How many pounds in a stone? 10, 12, 14 or 16?
4. When you weigh something what is the correct abbreviation of pound?
lb, pb or pd?
5. Which is warmer: 20o Celsius, 68o Fahrenheit, or are thy roughly the same?
6. How many yards are in a furlong? 110, 220, 330, 440?
7. If you order one pound of sausages, how many grams of sausages are you getting?
250g, 350g, 450g or 550g?
8. How many gallons are there in a peck? 2, 4, 6, 12?
9. Which is more – four pints or three litres, or are they roughly the same?
10. If you were in Scotland how much would you be given if you asked for “a wee dram”?
1/16 ounce, 1/16 pecks or 1/16 inches?
11. How many grains are in a pennyweight? 12, 24 or 36?
12. You have got some rocks, which weighs more: a hundredweight of rocks, a metric ton of rocks, or they are both roughly the same?
13. What is legally defined in the UK’s weights and measures act 1985 as ‘a cubic decimetre’? A hectolitre, A millilitre, A decilitre, or A litre?
14. We measure land in acres in the imperial system. What is the equivalent in the metric system? Carat, Minim, Hectare, or Hectogram?
15. What’s the metric size of a standard bottle of wine? 600 ml, 750 ml, 850 ml?
16. Which is longer; ten metres or forty feet, or are they roughly the same?
17. The length of Noah’s Ark was 300 cubits, its width 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. A cubit the distance from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger so which of the following measurements were used as a Cubit? 17.5 inches, 17.6 inches. 19.8 inches, 20.4 inches, 20.6 inches?
18. You may know that the symbols for pounds shillings and pence are £sd. But what does £sd stand for? (a) Lira, solidi, denarii; (b) Librae, solidi, denarii; (c) librae, silerii, denarii, or (d) Librae, solidi, dentelli?
19. In what year did the UK adopt decimal currency? 1969, 1971, or 1973?
We hope you’ve enjoyed this quiz, the answers are below.
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Answers to the Fun Quiz
Q1. 12
Q2. 16
Q3. 14
Q4. lb
Q5. They are roughly the same
Q6. 220 (i.e 10 chains long)
Q7. Usually weighs in at around 454g
Q8. 2. And there are then various numbers of pecks in a bushel, depending on where you live and what you are measuring,
Q9. 3 litres is 5.2 pints
Q10. 1/16oz. A dram is a measurement of mass or weight, not of capacity or distance.
Q11. 24. A grain is 1/7000 of a pound, so a pennyweight doesn’t weigh much at all
Q12. A metric ton. A metric ton is 1,000kg. A hundredweight is 112 pounds, which is the equivalent of 50.8kg
Q13. A Litre. A litre, is essentially a cube that is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm
Q14. A hectare, which is the equivalent of 2.47 acres.
Q15. 750ml; roughly 25 fluid ounces, or 1.31 pints
Q16. Roughly the same
Q17. All are correct; Hebrews used 17.5 and 20.4, Egyptians 17.6 and 20.6, Babylonians 19.8.
Q18. (b) librae, solidi, denarii. The £sd system was the standard across much of Europe for nearly a thousand years, until the decimalisations of the 18th and 19th centuries.
19. 15 February 1971.
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