Rhyme Time — Answers
by David Pleacher
In each of the definitions or clues listed below, there are two rhyming words — and at least one of them is a math term.
The missing word in each of the following pairs is a math term.
Example: 5 o'clock is prime time .
1. 2000 pounds is one ton .
2. A royal prince is a highness minus .
3. Rectangle length is the wide side .
4. A skillet diameter is a griddle middle .
5. Four and nine are a square pair .
6. A wrong total is a dumb sum .
7. A finger tapper is a digit fidget .
8. A college student majoring in mathematics is following a math path
.
9. A figure with three curved sides is a newfangle triangle .
10. Solving a definite integral is integration calculation .
11. A woman who can add forty numbers in her head is an addition magician
.
12. A pair of cows is two moo .
13. After winning the championship for the seventh time in a row,
the coach said, "Next year will be eight straight ."
14. When you add 4 pigs to 5 pigs, you get nine swine .
15. When Noah painted his boat black, God said it was a dark arc .
16. A Ph.D. is a marquee degree .
17. There is a fine line between genius and insanity.
18. One astronaut in space is solitude altitude.
19. The two delinquent boys were double trouble.
20. The magician's concentration was a hokus pokus focus .
21. A chuckle is a half laugh .
22. A converse is a reverse inverse . (well, not really).