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Postby Мастер » Sun Jan 05, 2014 3:27 am

What three countries have not adopted the metric system?
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Lance » Sun Jan 05, 2014 3:54 am

Uhhhhh

Da US?
Texas?
The place with penguins?
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Мастер » Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:36 am

For sure, the US has not yet invented the metric system.

I do not believe there are penguins in the other two countries I came across, except possibly in the zoo.
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Arneb » Sun Jan 05, 2014 2:03 pm

USA
Burma
Liberia
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Lance » Sun Jan 05, 2014 3:16 pm

I'd have really thought Texas was one of them...
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Мастер » Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:24 pm

Arneb wrote:USA
Burma
Liberia


Those are the three I came across.

So Arneb gets to ask the next metric system question.
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Arneb » Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:31 pm

Мастер wrote:So Arneb gets to ask the next metric system question.


How many cL in a dram?
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Мастер » Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:17 pm

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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Lance » Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:42 am

"A dram is a measure of whisky, the size of which depends on the generosity of the pourer"
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby tubeswell » Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:43 pm

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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Мастер » Sun May 24, 2015 3:50 pm

Arneb wrote:How many cL in a dram?


A US dram, or a British imperial dram?
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Lance » Sun May 24, 2015 4:10 pm

Мастер wrote:
Arneb wrote:How many cL in a dram?


A US dram, or a British imperial dram?

0.003697?
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Heid the Ba » Sun May 24, 2015 4:17 pm

In our house a dram is about "that much" but we are effete southerners, I'm sure in Lianachanshire it is at least twice that.
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Мастер » Sun May 24, 2015 4:19 pm

Lance wrote:
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Arneb wrote:How many cL in a dram?


A US dram, or a British imperial dram?

0.003697?


I think that you are using US rather than British units (which is acceptable, I would think, but I guess Arneb has to judge), but I think maybe you failed to notice the "c" in front of the "L".
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Lance » Sun May 24, 2015 6:58 pm

Мастер wrote:but I think maybe you failed to notice the "c" in front of the "L".

No, I noticed it. But perhaps I just did it wrong.
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Re: Quick Quiz

Postby Arneb » Sun May 24, 2015 7:21 pm

I'll give it to Heid, simply for stating that a dram can mean different things to different people at different times in different moods. Mactep was too exact for this kind ofquestion; Lance was off by several orders of magnitude, but got the numbers right, I'd have accepted anything between 2 and 4.
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