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1. Page ten or thereabouts gave me a security warning from AVG. Perhaps one of your ad servers has been hijacked. I hope all turns out OK

   posted by Tom on 10-14-2009 at 12:44 pm

2. Ditto, although it came up on page four for me. I use AVG also.

   -”BB”-

   posted by Bicycle Bill on 10-14-2009 at 12:57 pm

3. You might want to re-check your answer for Question 1.

   It takes 2.47 acres to make 1 hectare, therefore “acre < (less than) hectare" should be the correct answer.

   posted by Steve D on 10-14-2009 at 1:00 pm

4. I got 9 out of 12, guessed incorrectly on jigger being less than a shot, however, was incorrectly marked wrong on acre less than hectare (1 hectare=2.4710 acres) and horsepower less than kilowatt (1 horsepower=746 watts).

   posted by Hawaiian on 10-14-2009 at 1:23 pm

5. came here to say the same about horsepower and acre

   posted by airy on 10-14-2009 at 2:14 pm

6. Scoring gave me 11 out of 12, only one “wrong” was the acre/hectare one. However:
   • 1 Hectare = 10000 meters² (107600 ft²)
   • 1 Acre = 4050 meters² (43560 ft²)
   ergo,
   • 1 Hectare = 2.47 acres
   • 1 Hectare > 1 Acre

   I’m now claiming perfection!!!
   (at least on this quiz!)

   posted by Bicycle Bill on 10-14-2009 at 2:17 pm

7. As for the HP/kilowatt question, I know by demonstration that I (a human) can pedal a bicycle-powered dynamo and light 10 100-watt light bulbs….and I know dambed well that I don’t produce one horsepower of work!!

   QED; 1 HP > 1 KWatt

   -”BB”-

   posted by Bicycle Bill on 10-14-2009 at 2:27 pm

8. Must have fixed the hectare question by now… perfection feels good (and I only had to guess on 3!)

   posted by Steven on 10-14-2009 at 2:50 pm

9. Good to know I am not crazy! I couldn’t figure out why I got acre/hectare wrong… but didn’t have time to double check it earlier.

   posted by Hyacinth on 10-14-2009 at 4:27 pm

10. oops, not from ‘guys and dolls’! It’s from ‘Oklahoma!’ Sure, THAT I know, but not the math part…

    posted by Kimberly on 10-14-2009 at 4:33 pm

11. There is a problem with the horsepower to kilowatt question. Is the horsepower applied to a boiler (1 HP = 9.8095 KW); to mechanical process or an electrical circuit. (1 HP = 0.746 KW) Either answer could be right.

    posted by Whitty Comeback on 10-14-2009 at 7:24 pm

12. What, no one complained (yet) that kilograms are units of mass while pounds are units of force?

    posted by Jeff on 10-14-2009 at 8:34 pm

13. Ok, now I got 12 out of 12, but to be honest it’s because I learned about the jigger from my 1st attempt. Regarding the bicycle driving 10-100 watt bulbs, congrats to you Bill, you were for whatever period of time you had all the bulbs brightly lit exceeding 1 horsepower. The key here is the time you were able to sustain that level of illumination. In the same class that I learned that 1 hp = 746 watts, I also learned about Instantaneous Peak Power. IPP can be extremely high, but as the name implies rather fleetling. Old time shady stero sellers used to brag about having amplifiers that put out 1000 watts-IPP making it sound like a power monster, when in fact over time (steady state) the amp was lucky to put out 10 watts.

    posted by Hawaiian on 10-14-2009 at 10:09 pm

14. Granted, you will find variations throughout the business, but generally speaking, a jigger is 1.25 ounces (so as to make the standard pour for a single liquor drink), while a shot is at least 1.5 ounces, if not more often a full 2 ounces. I worked as a bartender for years; I hope that I wasn’t cheating the house (or the customer… either way).

    posted by Will on 10-15-2009 at 1:21 pm

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