155 lines
6.1 KiB
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155 lines
6.1 KiB
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;; Data file for quiz.ss, written by Don Felgar
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("This is a quiz on English weights and measures. Good luck!"
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("How many imperial gallons in a firkin?"
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("4" "5" "8" "9")
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3
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"The firkin is a liquor volume, equalling nine imperial gallons.
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An imperial gallon is equals 1.20095 gallons, by the way.
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Alternatively te firkin is one-fourth of a barrel.")
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("How many tablespoons in a cup?"
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("4" "6" "8" "16")
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3
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"Recipes in the US most often use tablespoons, teaspoons, and
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cups.")
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("How many teacups in a cup?"
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("1/2" "3/4" "1" "1.5")
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1
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"")
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("A magnum is how many gallons?"
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("0.5" "1" "1.5" "2")
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3
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"Wine bottles, in order of size, are: bottle, magnum, jeroboam,
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rehoboam, methuselah, salmanazar, balthazar, and nebuchadnezzar, which
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holds 5 gallons.")
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("A kilderkin is how many gallons?"
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("5" "18" "20" "25")
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1
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"")
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("How many magnums in a rehoboam?"
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("3" "4" "5" "10")
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0
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"Wine bottles, in order of size, are: bottle, magnum, jeroboam,
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rehoboam, methuselah, salmanazar, balthazar, and nebuchadnezzar, which
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holds 5 gallons.")
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("How many scruples in a Troy ounce?"
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("8" "24" "48" "196")
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1
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"20 grains in a scruple, 24 scruples in a Troy ounce. The scruple is an apothecary measurement.")
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("How many cups are in a quart?"
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("2" "2.5" "3" "4")
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3
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"Two cups in a pint, two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon.")
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("How many cups in a pint?"
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("2" "2.5" "3" "4")
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0
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"Two cups in a pint, two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon.")
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("How many pecks in a bushel?"
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("4" "5" "8" "10")
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0
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"Note: The Winchester bushel, formerly used in England,
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contained 2150.42 cubic inches, being the volume of a cylinder 181/2
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inches in internal diameter and eight inches in depth. The standard
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bushel measures, prepared by the United States Government and
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distributed to the States, hold each 77.6274 pounds of distilled
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water, at 39.8[deg] Fahr. and 30 inches atmospheric pressure, being
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the equivalent of the Winchester bushel. The imperial bushel now in
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use in England is larger than the Winchester bushel, containing 2218.2
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cubic inches, or 80 pounds of water at 62[deg] Fahr.")
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("A jigger is:"
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("1/3 of a tablespoon" "2 tablespoons" "3 tablespoons" "4 tablespoons")
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2
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"A jigger is the amount a shot glass contains. The pony is
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another drink volume measure, equalling half a jigger. There's also
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the English beer gallon.")
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("How many grains in a pound:"
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("400" "500" "512" "7000")
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3
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"According to Webster's: \"The unit of the English system of
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weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of
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grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains
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constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A
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grain is equal to .0648 gram.\"")
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("How many tablespoons in a fluid ounce:"
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("0.5" "1" "2" "4")
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2
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"Recipes in the US most often use tablespoons, teaspoons, and
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cups.")
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("At standard temperature and pressure, one fluid ounce of water
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weighs:"
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("1.04158 ounces avoirdupois" "1 ounce avoirdupois" "1 troy ounce" "none of the above")
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0
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"Good question.")
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("A person who weighs 10 stone weighs how many pounds:"
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("90" "100" "120" "140")
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3
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"One stone for human weight is 14 pounds. Note: The stone of
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butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of
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hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs. (Webster's). Time to go metric.")
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("How many cord foot are in a cord?"
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("2" "4" "8" "9")
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2
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"According to Webster's, a cord is \"A solid measure,
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equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse
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material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; --
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originally measured with a cord or line.\"")
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("A teacup is how many fluid ounces?"
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("4" "5" "6" "8")
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0
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"")
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("A mile is how many feet?"
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("4,000" "5,120" "5,280" "6,000")
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2
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"5,280 feet, 1,760 yards.")
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("How many acres in a square mile?"
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("320" "400" "500" "640")
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3
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"")
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("How many fluid ounces in a gallon?"
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("32" "64" "128" "256")
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2
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"")
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("In the US we refer to oil quantities in barrels. How many
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gallons in an oil barrel (also known as petroleum barrel)?"
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("42" "120" "128" "150")
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0
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"Alternatively, one oil barrel equals 896 tea cups.")
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("How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?"
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("2" "2.5" "3" "4")
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2
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"")
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("One fluid dram equals how many fluid ounces:"
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("0.1" "0.125" "0.5" "0.75")
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1
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"As with the ounce, there is a fluid dram and a weight dram. A
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weight dram is 0.0625 of an ounce. What's worse, there is a Troy
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ounce as well as an avoirdupois ounce.")
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("One Troy carat is equal to:"
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("3.2 grains Troy" "5 grains Troy" "7.5 grains Troy" "10 grains Troy")
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0
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"\"Note: The carat equals three and one fifth grains Troy, and is
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divided into four grains, sometimes called carat grains. Diamonds and
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other precious stones are estimated by carats and fractions of carats,
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and pearls, usually, by carat grains. --Tiffany\" (As quoted from
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Webster's). Additionally, carat can mean 24th part; 22 carat gold is
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22/24's gold.")
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("How many Troy ounces are in a pound?"
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("8" "10" "12" "16")
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2
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"According to Webster's: \"Troy weight, the weight which gold and
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silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from
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Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy
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ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the
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crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the
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ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence,
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the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760
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grains. The avoirdupois pound contains 7000 troy grains; so that 175
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pounds troy equal 144 pounds avoirdupois, or 1 pound troy = 0.82286 of
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a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 117/175 or 1.09714 ounce
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avoirdupois. Troy weight when divided, the pound into 12 ounces, the
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ounce into 8 drams, the dram into 3 scruples, and the scruple into 20
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grains, is called apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines,
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etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is
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divided decimally down to the 1/10000 part.\"")
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))
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