Showing posts with label Shapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shapes. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

CIRCULAR REASONING

How many words can you think of that can precede CIRCLE? There are at least twelve.

Possible answers:

Half
Semi
Full
Sewing
Family
Crop
Arctic
Vicious
Winner's
Squared
Traffic
Inner

Saturday, November 5, 2011

STAYING IN SHAPE

Can you think of a common phrase using these geometrical terms?

1. Circle
2. Oval
3. Rectangle
4. Diamond
5. Square
6. Cone
7. Cylinder
8. Triangle
9. Pentagon

Possible Answers:

1. Arctic Circle
2. Oval Office
3. Golden Rectangle
4. Baseball Diamond
5. Times Square
6. Ice Cream Cone
7. Master Cylinder
8. Bermuda Triangle
9. Pentagon Papers

Friday, December 18, 2009

SQUARED AWAY

Each clue below can be answered with a phrase using the word SQUARE:

1. Type of ruler used in mechanical drawing
2. Do a do-si-do a a hoedown
3. New York City sports venue
4. Carpet unit
5. 8 to 64 or 13 to 169
6. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes
7. Ball-dropping spot on New Year's Eve
8. Boxing ring
9. Scrap a project and start from scratch
10. Old time sailing ships
11. To settle accounts or other matters
12. To take an aggresive position
13. You don't fit in.
14. You can tie one.
15. Honest, forthright person
16. Geographic measure
17. Invitation to the hip

Answers:

1. T-square
2. Square dance
3. Madison Square Garden
4. Square yard
5. Square root
6. square meal
7. Times Square
8. Squared circle
9. Back to square one
10. Square riggers
11. Square up
12. Square off
13. Square peg in a round hole
14. Square knot
15. Square shooter
16. quare mile
17. Be there or be square.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

SHAPING UP
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Nov. 2004
Jennifer Orehowsky

Each clue below leads to an answer containing the name of a two-dimensional geometric figure. Example: Perilous Atlantic area, according to lore: Bermuda Triangle

1. Situation in which one problem leads to another
2. Seat of executive power in the U.S.
3. Vietnam War study leaked to the NYT in 1971
4. Area adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow
5. Beatles classic song
6. Three-way romance

Answers:

1. Vicious circle
2. Oval Office
3. The Pentagon Papers
4. Red Square
5. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
6. Love triangle