Units and Measurements

What this quiz asks

• How many ounces are there in one pound?
• Beer in British pubs is still served by law in which traditional measure?
• Which country created the metric system in the 1790s?
• A standard ream of printer paper today contains 500 sheets.
• The height of this animal is traditionally measured in which unit?
• Exactly how many centimetres are there in one inch?
• How many feet are there in one mile?
• Is a knot a unit of speed?
• Select ALL of these that are units of weight (mass).
• How many square metres make up one hectare?
• Order these units of length from shortest to longest.
• A US gallon holds less liquid than a British imperial gallon.
• A cricket pitch is 22 yards long. Which old unit of length is exactly that distance?
• Select ALL of these that are units of volume or capacity.
• Which engineer coined the term 'horsepower' to help sell his steam engines?
• When the metre was first defined in 1791, it was meant to be one ten-millionth of the distance from where to where?
• Roughly how many grams are there in one pound?
• Until which year was the kilogram officially defined by a metal cylinder kept near Paris?
• NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 because one team used metric units and the other used which?
• Which two astronomers spent the 1790s surveying the meridian from Dunkirk to Barcelona to fix the length of the metre?