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Quiz about Geometry Who Am I
Quiz about Geometry Who Am I

Geometry Who Am I? Trivia Quiz

Here are a list of people and objects I met during my high school geometry class. How many of them do you know?

A multiple-choice quiz by tralfaz. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
tralfaz
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
192,288
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
3755
Last 3 plays: PurpleComet (7/10), Guest 209 (6/10), knethen222 (9/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. I am the best known geometry teacher of all time. In fact, the most common form of geometry is named after me because I'm the best, baby. I wrote a book that you may have heard of; it's called "Elements". It's ONLY the best selling textbook of all time. Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. Talk about having an identity crisis. Most people define me as an angle of 90 degrees. That's not exactly a definition though; 90 degrees is my size. My definition is "the angle formed when two lines meet such that adjacent angles are congruent". Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. I am one of the instruments used in classical geometry. My brother thinks he is SOOOOOO great. He has lines on him and can be used to measure things. All I can do is draw lines. Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. I hate my sister, Circle. She was always the "pretty" one while I was the "fat" one. She even got credit for being the path of the planets! Heavenly spheres my . . . ummm never mind. Thankfully my friend Kepler set everything right and now everyone knows me. Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. Hi. I'm Hyperbola. I'm really shy. There is this cute lady at work that I want to ask out. Every day I get closer and closer to her, but I never seem to meet her. I don't even know her name. Can you help me and tell me who she is? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. I'm Sgt. Honeybee! This shape is one of the only three regular polygons that can tessellate a plane. The one I use has the largest area for a given perimeter. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME SIX! Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. People can't tell if I look more like my mommy or my daddy. Mama is a rhombus and Dad is a rectangle and I am a . . . Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. Most people talk to themselves, but I get answers. I have multiple personalities, but my psychologist says I'm getting better. OK! Stop shouting! I'll introduce you all! This is Isosceles, that's Acute, there's Obtuse, Scalene is over there, Equilateral stepped out for a bite, and Right is in the back. It's strange but we all have this same last name. Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Are you my contact? I'm Secret Agent Diamond and I'm a student at a correspondence school for spies. They suggest that I come up with alias but I don't really have a good memory. Can you help me find a name that means the same as "diamond"? That way I'll be sure to remember it. Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. Hey there, everybody! I decided that geometry wasn't mathematical enough so I invented analytical geometry. Now everyone can use the coordinate system named after me and have fun finding slopes of lines, plotting y-intercepts, and graphing circles using the easy to remember formula (x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=r^2. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. I am the best known geometry teacher of all time. In fact, the most common form of geometry is named after me because I'm the best, baby. I wrote a book that you may have heard of; it's called "Elements". It's ONLY the best selling textbook of all time.

Answer: Euclid

 "Elements" was the standard book used in geometry classes for close to 2000 years. The standard type of geometry studied is Euclidean geometry, although there are non-Euclidean geometries too.
2. Talk about having an identity crisis. Most people define me as an angle of 90 degrees. That's not exactly a definition though; 90 degrees is my size. My definition is "the angle formed when two lines meet such that adjacent angles are congruent".

Answer: Right Angle

 Another definition for a right angle is a quarter of a circle. Right angles are very important in the geometry of triangles - also known as trigonometry.
3. I am one of the instruments used in classical geometry. My brother thinks he is SOOOOOO great. He has lines on him and can be used to measure things. All I can do is draw lines.

Answer: Straightedge

 In classical geometry, only straightedges and compasses can be used for constructions. Even though you can't measure things, these two instruments are very powerful. However, there are three things they can't do alone: square a circle, trisect an angle, and duplicate a cube.
4. I hate my sister, Circle. She was always the "pretty" one while I was the "fat" one. She even got credit for being the path of the planets! Heavenly spheres my . . . ummm never mind. Thankfully my friend Kepler set everything right and now everyone knows me.

Answer: Ellipse

 Even the original Copernican Theory used circles (known as epicycles) to describe the orbit of the planets. The advantage over the Ptolemaic Theory was that the Copernican system used a lot fewer epicycles.
5. Hi. I'm Hyperbola. I'm really shy. There is this cute lady at work that I want to ask out. Every day I get closer and closer to her, but I never seem to meet her. I don't even know her name. Can you help me and tell me who she is?

Answer: Asymptote

 A hyperbola approaches but never reaches two intersecting lines called asymptotes. A focus is the point in the plane that determines where the conic (circle, ellipse, hyperbola, parabola) lies. A directrix is a line that is only involved with parabolas.
6. I'm Sgt. Honeybee! This shape is one of the only three regular polygons that can tessellate a plane. The one I use has the largest area for a given perimeter. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME SIX!

Answer: Hexagon

 The only three regular polygons that can fill a plane without leaving spaces are the equilateral triangle, square, and regular hexagon. The hexagon holds the most honey for a given amount of wax, so this is the shape of the cells in a honeycomb.
7. People can't tell if I look more like my mommy or my daddy. Mama is a rhombus and Dad is a rectangle and I am a . . .

Answer: Square

 A rhombus and a rectangle both have four sides. A rhombus has all of its sides the same size and a rectangle has right angles for corners. A square is the only object that is both a rhombus and a rectangle.
8. Most people talk to themselves, but I get answers. I have multiple personalities, but my psychologist says I'm getting better. OK! Stop shouting! I'll introduce you all! This is Isosceles, that's Acute, there's Obtuse, Scalene is over there, Equilateral stepped out for a bite, and Right is in the back. It's strange but we all have this same last name.

Answer: Triangle

 Triangles can be described by their largest angle: acute, right, or obtuse. They can also be described by their sides. A scalene had no equal sides. An isosceles has at least (some say exactly) two equal sides. An equilateral has all three sides the same size.
9. Are you my contact? I'm Secret Agent Diamond and I'm a student at a correspondence school for spies. They suggest that I come up with alias but I don't really have a good memory. Can you help me find a name that means the same as "diamond"? That way I'll be sure to remember it.

Answer: lozenge

 A diamond is the same thing as a rhombus (a quadrilateral with all four sides the same). A diamond is a parallelogram but they are not the same thing since a parallelogram only has to have *opposite* sides the same size. A kite has two adjacent side the same length and the other two side equal to each other but different than the first two sides. A trapezoid is nothing like a diamond.

A lozenge is a true synonym for a diamond. Do you know why cough drops are called lozenges? The first ones made were diamond-shaped.
10. Hey there, everybody! I decided that geometry wasn't mathematical enough so I invented analytical geometry. Now everyone can use the coordinate system named after me and have fun finding slopes of lines, plotting y-intercepts, and graphing circles using the easy to remember formula (x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=r^2.

Answer: Rene Descartes

 Legend has it that Descartes was inspired by a fly walking across the shadow of a window lattice. Although analytical geometry has led to major advances in mathematics and is very common (remember all of the Cartesian planes you used in school), classical geometry has a certain elegance and still has a place today.
Source: Author tralfaz

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