Geometry Quiz
This is the number of sides an octagon has.
What is eight?
An octagon is a polygon, a closed, two-dimensional shape with three or more straight sides.
Loonie
What is (Canadian) dollar?
It’s also called a toonie. The one-dollar coin sports a loon on one side.
Massachusetts’ cape
What is Cod?
Cape Cod is close enough to Boston that many Bostonians spend their summer weekends on Cape Cod. It is made up of 15 towns.
From soup to these
What are nuts?
It means “from beginning to end.”
The study of family history and origin
What is genealogy?
The word comes from the Greek meaning “family science.”
Squeeze in that last grilled meal on the patio, otherwise known as this.
What is barbecue?
While grilling and barbecuing are used interchangeably, barbecuing is grilling slowly at a low temperature.
SUBJECT:
This figure has four equal sides and four 90-degree angles.
What is a square?
A figure with four unequal sides but with four 90-degree angles is a rectangle. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
When Canadians don’t understand something, they might say, “eh,” but it’s pronounced like this.
What is ay?
Shakespeare’s dream
What is a Midsummer Night’s?
The play is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Apple of one’s [body part]
What is eye?
When someone says, “You’re the apple of my eye,” it means they adore you.
The first step in tracing your family history is to talk with these people
Who are family members?
Collect records and memories from your family and start with the oldest people in your family. Take time to pass along what you know and what you’ve heard to your relatives. You can record it on your phone and email it to them.
This is an outdoor sale at someone’s home.
What is garage (or yard) sale?
While you can pick up someone else’s discarded items, you can also find treasures for a song.
He invented the rabies vaccine for humans.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
It was difficult to come up with the vaccine because rabies is not a bacterial infection; it’s a virus. The rabies vaccination used to be 21 doses given in the stomach. Today, it’s four intramuscular shots in the upper arm.
A concave shape bends inward or outward.
What is inward?
A convex shape bends outward.
When someone suggests a trip to Timmies for a cup of coffee, they mean this restaurant.
What is Tim Hortons?
It’s spelled without an apostrophe. Timmies has migrated south to the United States and is currently in 12 states.
This U.S. state experiences the midnight sun during summer.
What is Alaska?
In its northernmost town of Barrow, the sun doesn’t set from May 10 to August 2.
When you can’t figure out something, it’s a tough one of these to crack.
What is nut?
Some families keep records of births, deaths, christenings or baptisms, and marriages in this.
What is a Bible?
You might be able to build a family tree several generations back by going through old Bibles.
Take a drive in one of these cars and let your hair fly in the wind.
What is convertible?
Alternatively, you could wear a scarf and sunglasses for that glam touch.
An equilateral triangle has this number of equal sides.
What is three?
Each angle is 60 degrees. Angles in all triangles add up to 180 degrees.
Double-double
What is a (Timmies) coffee with double cream and double sugar?
This is a weekend destination for New York City glitterati during the summer.
What are the Hamptons (or any of the individual Hamptons)?
The Hamptons lie near the end of Long Island on the South Shore.
Don’t spill these if you want to keep a secret.
What are beans?
If you don’t know how your ancestors made their way to North America, you can start your online search of passengers at this port of entry and then expand your search to other ports of entry.
What is Ellis Island?
Other ports of entry for ancestors included Philadelphia, Baltimore, Galveston, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Boston. If you have no idea where your ancestors landed, you can check by name at ancestry.com.
If you feel your balance isn’t up to a bicycle ride, you could pedal one of these adult three-wheelers.
What is tricycle?
They offer more stability than a bicycle
A four-sided, flat shape with only one set of parallel lines.
What is trapezoid?
The two non-parallel sides are called legs.
The 6ix (six written with the numeral 6 instead of an S).
What is the six-city area that makes up greater Toronto?
As a hashtag, it’s written #TheSix or #The6.
The Obamas bought a home in this Massachusetts summer getaway.
What is Martha’s Vineyard?
They paid $14.85 million for the house.
Another expression for “use your brain” is use this
What is your noodle?
This religion keeps detailed information on family trees.
What is Mormon, Latter Day Saints, LDS, etc.?
They maintain the largest database in the world, and their genealogy records are open to all. You can search online at www.familysearch.org.
Get your fill of wonderfully bad food at one of these end-of-summer, state or county functions.
What is fair?
You can find a fried version of many types of food at the fair.
The number of equal sides in an isosceles triangle.
What is two?
Two-four
What is a case of 24 beers?
This is Eddie Cochran’s 1958 hit tune.
What is “Summertime Blues”?
He co-wrote as well as recorded the song, which hit No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
Muscle cars were often described as this.
What is souped-up?
This government database can be helpful in finding ancestors.
What is census?
The public can search the census after 72 years; however, heirs can search records from 1950 to 2010.
Many parks feature outdoor plays by this British playwright.
Who is Shakespeare?
It’s usually called Shakespeare in the Park.