Geometry
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.
Don’t spill these if you want to keep a secret.
What are beans?
The study of family history and origins
What is genealogy?
The word comes from the Greek meaning “family science.”
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.
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.
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
Another expression for “use your brain” is use this.
What is your noodle?
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.
A four-sided, flat shape with only one set of parallel lines.
What is trapezoid?
The two non-parallel sides are called legs.
Two-four
What is a case of 24 beers?
The Obamas bought a home in this Massachusetts summer getaway.
What is Martha’s Vineyard?
They paid $14.85 million for the house.
Muscle cars were often described as this.
What is souped-up?
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.