August 2017
Problem of the Month
Cinematic Conversions
We’ve changed 15 movie titles by replacing units of measure (not always used in a measurement context) with equivalent quantities of a different unit.
For example,
One Hundred Twelve Ounces represents the movie title Seven Pounds. Can you convert the units to restore the original titles?
1. One Week in May
2. Sixty Thousand Miles Under the Sea
3. Seventy-Two Hours of the Condor
4. The Longest Three Feet
5. A Most Violent Twelve Months
6. Three-Quarters of a Year
7. Rush Sixty Minutes
8. My Left Twelve Inches
9. Four Million Eight Hundred Forty Thousand Square Feet
10. Hot One-Fortieth of a Furlong
11. A Little Eighth of a Byte of Heaven
12. The Three-Thousand-Forty-Eight-Centimeter Journey
13. Tin Half Pint
14. The Hundred-Thousand-Dynes Boys
15. Almost Three-Quarters of an Ounce
Solution to the Problem:
Credit was given if you could answer ten of the movies correctly. The number of correct answers that each person submitted is in parentheses below.
1. Seven Days in May
2. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
3. Three Days of the Condor
4. The Longest Yard
5. A Most Violent Year
6. nine Months
7. Rush Hour
8. My Left Foot
9. A Thousand Acres
10. Hot Rod
11. A Little Bit of Heaven
12. The Hundred-Foot Journey
13. Tin Cup
14. The Newton Boys
15. 21 Grams