Unusual Units of Measurement
This unit equals 1/8 of a mile and is often used in horse racing.
What is a furlong?
This tower in Paris was completed in 1889.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
"Hail to the Victors" starts the fight song often heard at sporting events played at this university.
What is Michigan?
This device was used to receive short messages before cell phones.
What is a pager?
This US state is home to the only royal palace on American soil.
What is Hawaii?
This unit of time is sometimes defined as 1/100th of a second.
What is a jiffy?
This massive wall stretches over 13,000 miles in China.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This university's football team won the College Football Playoff National Championship last year, beating Notre Dame.
What is Ohio State?
This video format lost the war to VHS.
What is Betamax?
In Morse code, this letter is represented by a single dot.
What is E?
This old nautical unit equals 3 miles.
What is a league?
This ancient structure in Peru was built by the Incas.
What is Machu Picchu?
This coach won 10 NCAA basketball championships with UCLA, including seven in a row from 1967 to 1973.
Who is John Wooden?
This thin magnetic storage medium was common in the 1990s.
What is a floppy disk?
This is the shared first name of co-founders of the following entities: Oracle, Google, BlackRock, and Wikipedia.
What is Larry? (Ellison, Page, Fink, and Sanger)
This British unit of weight equals 14 pounds.
What is a stone?
This sandstone monument in Jordan is carved into rock.
What is Petra?
Despite Caitlin Clark's best efforts, this school lost back-to-back national championship games in 2023 and 2024 to LSU and South Carolina.
What is the University of Iowa?
This analog tool was used for more complex mathematical calculations before calculators.
What is a slide rule?
In this 1805 battle off the coast of Spain, a British fleet led by one-armed Admiral Horatio Nelson defied conventional tactics by breaking the enemy line, securing a decisive victory over Napoleon’s forces, but costing Nelson his life.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
This astronomical unit equals about 3.26 light-years.
What is a parsec?
This cathedral in Russia is known for its colorful onion domes.
What is St. Basil’s Cathedral?
This university's hockey team has won the most championships in NCAA history, with the most recent victory coming in 2024.
What is the University of Denver?
Invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, this device revolutionized sound recording by capturing audio on tinfoil-covered cylinders.
What is a phonograph?
This term refers to a feudal military government that ruled Japan for centuries, with power concentrated in the hands of a warrior commander-in-chief.
What is a shogunate?