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Geometry Trivia

Geometry Quiz

Don’t be a square, it’s time to shape up and test your Geometry knowledge.

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The Dorky Round

One

The interior angles of any triangle add up to what?
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180 Degrees

Two

Two lines that never intersect are called what?
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Parallel

Three

In a right triangle, what do you call the longest side?
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The hypotenuse

Four

What’s the geometric term for a 2-dimensional flat surface?
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A plane

Five

22/7 is a rough approximation for what geometric number?
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Pi (or 3.14)

Six

How many straight lines can be drawn through two points?
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One

Seven

A quadrilateral with one set of parallel lines is called what?
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A Trapezoid.

Eight

If we had two sets of parallel lines on a quadrilateral, we have what?
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A parallelogram

Nine

Now, let’s make that parallelogram have all four sides the same length. What do we have now?
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A rhombus

Ten

Let’s now take that rhombus and make all four corners have right angles, what shape do we have?
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A square

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The Geeky Round

One

What is the minimum number of sides to make a geometric solid?
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Four sides. That makes a tetrahedron (or a D4 for RPG players)

Two

The Cartesian Coordinate System is named after who?
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Rene Descartes

Three

If you’re using the formula A²+B²=C², what are you trying to figure out?
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The sides of a Right Triangle

Four

What would you call a 2-dimensional object with seven sides?
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A heptagon. Septa is the Latin prefix for Seven whereas hepta is Greek

Five

How many times can a line segment be bisected?
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One

Six

The sum of complementary angles is what?
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90 Degrees

Seven

How many sides would a nonagon have?
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Nine

Eight

What do you call a two-dimensional object with only one side?
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A mobius strip

Nine

What do you call a triangle with all three sides having different lengths?
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A scalene triangle

Ten

A straight line connecting two points on a circle is a what?
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A chord

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The Nerdy Round

One

What’s the formula for calculating the volume of a cylinder?
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Pi x R² x H or Pi times the radius of one end squared times the height.

Two

Euclid of Alexandria was born in what century?
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The 4th Century BCE

Three

What is the distance called between two points of a sphere along its surface?
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The Great-circle distance

Four

The interior angles of any hexagon add up to what?
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720 degrees

Five

A polygon with 20 sides would be called what?
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An icosagon

Six

The five-pointed star, like you would see on a US flag, is called what in geometry?
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A regular concave decagon

Seven

A slice of a circle that comes from the center point (like a piece of pizza) is called what?
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A sector

Eight

In three dimensional geometry, if you have two lines that do not intersect and are not parallel, what are they?
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Skew Lines

Nine

What Greek mathematician wrote the works, On the Sphere and the Cylinder and On Spirals?
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Archimedes

Ten

What is the type of geometry that is based on a curved plane, not a flat plane?
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Non-euclidean Geometry

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