Fun Quiz: Metric Awareness

A bathing suit made of 1 dm² would be ...

• decent.

• indecent.

A person who is 2.2m tall would be better suited to be ...

• a. a school patrol hall monitor

• b. a center for the Atlanta Hawks

• c. one of the kids in the movie, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"

A sphere with a mass of 100 mg would be ...

• an English pea

• Cinderella's carriage

• Babe Ruth's baseball

A distance of 0.1 km would be a little longer than...

• the distance from Atlanta to Macon

• the length of a football field

• the length of a balance beam in gymnastics

If your nose is 20 cm long, you are probably ...

• UGa, the University of Georgia bulldog mascot

• Pinocchio

The month is January, and the temperature is 32 °C. The place is ...

• Boston

• Atlanta

• Tahiti

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The temperature is 2° C and you are swimming. You are probably ...

• a. a penguin

• b. a goldfish

• c. an Amazon water snake

A rug of 200 m² would best cover

• a living room floor

• Turner field in Atlanta

• a tennis court

In a 40 L aquarium you would most likely put ...

• Moby Dick

• the shark in "Jaws"

• a pregnant guppy

If you were driving at a speed of 89 km/h you would probably be ...

• racing at Atlanta International Speedway

• plowing a cornfield

• pulled over for speeding on an expressway

• driving at the speed limit on a country road

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