Numeric Homophones
Merkels “No”
What is nein?
A skinny person from Helsinki
What is a thin finn?
Nine-ball is a standard pro variant of pocket these
What is billiards?
At the tequila bar, lick the salt off your hand, drink the shot, then suck on this
What is a lemone/lime?
Mathematicians have used calculus to prove that this ratio is less than 22/7, its common approximation
What is pi?
Idiomatically, this verb links the cat to the canary & the dog to your homework
What is ate?
Surrounded by a river, such as Gezira in Cairo
What is a Nile Isle?
Ether, time, space, soul & mind team up with these better-known 4 as the 9 substances of the universe in Hinduism
What is earth, wind, water and fire?
A 1897 novel featuring a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise. It has no single protagonist, but opens with a solicitor taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble.
What is Dracula?
The process of differentiation lets you find the slope of one of these lines that touches a curve at just one point
What is a tangent?
A golfer's "look out!"
What is fore?
Confections from the world's longest mountain chain
What are Andes candies?
There are nine of these in Greek Mythology, including Calliope, Thalia, Urania, Polyhymnia
What are muses?
The Amer. Academy of Pediatrics says this habit fulfills a need of all infants but around age 5, maybe worry a bit
What is thumb-sucking?
"Calculus" is Latin for a small one of these, used by the ancients on counting boards
What is a stone?
It can mean furthermore or very
What is too?
Scary Japanese theater
What is a spooky kabuki?
These mythological warrior women served as the 9 handmaidens of Odin
What is a valkyrie?
Annoyingly loud but necessary for cleaning
What is a vacuum?
The rate of change of a function with respect to a variable is denoted by this term that can also mean "unoriginal"
What is a derivative?
Prevailed in a contest
What is won?
A Spanish house in Kenya's second-largest city
What is casa mombasa?
The ninth of his name, this French king led the seventh crusade, but was captured in 1250 & had to be ransomed
Who is Louis?
The ultimate hitchhikers, these are also known as suckerfish because they attach themselves to other fish
What is a remora?
It all comes together with this calculus operation that lets you find the precise area under a curve
What is Integration?