Math 4U
Named For A Place
Silent "K"
All In A Day's Work
Flowers
100

It's the distance from a circle's center to its perimeter

a radius

100

Homer's "Iliad" takes its name from Ilium, Latin for this city

Troy

100

A small hill, grassy or not

a knoll

100

First thing, this daily trip to the ol' salt mine, averaging about 30 minutes each way in the L.A. area

a commute

100

 Every May the city of Holland, Michigan has a weeklong festival devoted to these flowers 

tulips

200

The three sides of this kind of triangle are all of different lengths

scalene

200

Any place that attracts a lot of visitors can be called this, even if it's not in Saudi Arabia

a mecca

200

Type of pine paneling seen  

knot

200

Midmorning, a break for this beverage said to have been discovered by a 9th century goat herder

coffee

200

Most roses at florist shops are the type that get their name from smelling like this beverage

   

Tea rose

300

It's the "useful" term for a relation that pairs members of one set with unique members of another set

a function

300

We're talking Turkey & this long-haired breed of rabbit

Angora

300

Anatomical adjective for an immediate & not carefully considered reaction

knee jerk

300

Uh oh! A visit from HR, this department

human resources

300

The genus Tagetes is made up of this flower with "gold" in its name

marigold

400

AKA Napier's constant, this lowercase vowel is used to represent the base of a natural logarithm

e

400

The word palace comes from the name of this hill where many Roman emperors resided

The Palatine

400

Bell sound to announce a passing

a knell

400

Let's get out of here before the boss asks us to work this, exemptions from which are listed in the FLSA

overtime

400

The Greek goddess of the rainbow gave her name to this flower that comes in a rainbow of colors

Iris

500

The intersection of two equal & opposite cones with a plane generates this 2-part curve, from Greek for "extravagance" or "excess"

hyperbola

500

For contributions from Oak Ridge Lab & Vanderbilt Univ., element No. 117, a superheavy halogen, has been named this

tennessine

500

It's what high octane gas is meant to prevent

  

knocking

500

An 8-hour day & I made 40 buttons, so divide output by input to get this measure, 5 per hour

productivity

500

April's birth month flower is this "sweet" climbing one, a member of the legume family

a pea