ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS

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          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