"How many centimeters are a poodle?"

This was my favorite reference question tonight, asked by a six-year-old boy.

And yes, the answer is in the World Book. (Almost everything's in the World Book.)

Toy poodle = 25 cm
Miniature poodle = 25 to 38 cm
Standard poodle = 45+ cm

By the way, that wasn't really what he needed to know. His homework asked, "If a poodle is 1 meter long, how many centimeters is the poodle?" We looked up centimeters. When it dawned on him that the poodle would be 100 centimeters, he exclaimed, "Man! That's big! I'm glad I don't have a poodle!"

Hee.