The Hindu’s Science Quiz | Absurd units of measurement

Q: Radiation Exposure is usually measured in sieverts, but scientists sometimes explain tiny doses in a lighter way, Comparing them to always Food. This amusing unit reflects the dose you get from eating something rich in potassium, especially a common yellow fruit. What is the unit called?

A: Banana-Equivalent Dose

Q: Nuclear Chain Reactions Occur at Astonishingly Fast Speeds, Far Quicker Than Ordinary Time Units Can meaningfully Describe. To capture this, physicists borrowed a phrase from a rural saying about the quick flick of an animal’s tail. What Short-Lived Unit of Time is this?

A: Shake

Q: Astronomers often deal with numbers so enormous that they can feel almost unimaginable. One whimsical way to express this is a unit named for a Well-KNown Science Communicator Famous for his Phrase “Billions and Billions” when describing the cosmos. What is this measure?

A: Sagan

Q: Scientists and engineers occasionally entertained themselves by describing speed in deliberately absurd ways. One such unit combines a traditional length in farming with a two-wheek period, yielding a very slow measurement, around 0.17 mm/s, that work mostly as an in in. What is this velocity unit?

A: Furlong Per Fortnight

Q: Statisticians and doctors sometimes measure the risk of death from daily activities using a peculiar unit. It quantifies the chance of dying as one in a mill What is this unit?

A: Micromort