Engineering Conversions

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter?
Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup?
Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash?
1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement?
1 bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God?
1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour?
Knot furlong

7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone?
1 Rod Serling

8. Half of a large intestine?
1 semicolon

9. 1,000,000 aches?
1 megahurtz

10. Basic unit of laryngitis?
1 hoarsepower

11. Shortest distance between two jokes?
A straight line

12. 453.6 graham crackers?
1 pound cake

13. 1 million-million microphones?
1 megaphone

14. 1 million bicycles?
2 megacycles

15. 365.25 days?
1 unicycle

16. 2000 mockingbirds?
2 kilomockingbirds

17. 10 cards?
1 decacards

18. 1 kilogram of falling figs?
1 Fig Newton

19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks?
1 literhosen

20. 1 millionth of a fish?
1 microfiche

21. 1 trillion pins?
1 terrapin

22. 10 rations?
1 decoration

23. 100 rations?
1 C-ration

24. 2 monograms?
1 diagram

25. 8 nickels?
2 paradigms

26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital?
1 I.V. League

Posted February 24, 2005 6:25 PM

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