Rhyme Time
A Puzzle 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 ton .
2. A royal prince is a highness .
3. Rectangle length is the wide .
4. A skillet diameter is a griddle .
5. Four and nine are a pair .
6. A wrong total is a dumb .
7. A finger tapper is a fidget .
8. A college student majoring in mathematics is following a path
.
9. A figure with three curved sides is a newfangle .
10. Solving a definite integral is calculation .
11. A woman who can add forty numbers in her head is an magician
.
12. A pair of cows is moo .
13. After winning the championship for the seventh time in a row,
the coach said, "Next year will be straight ."
14. When you add 4 pigs to 5 pigs, you get swine .
15. When Noah painted his boat black, God said it was a dark .
16. A Ph.D. is a marquee .
17. There is a fine between genius and insanity.
18. One astronaut in space is solitude
.
19. The two delinquent boys were trouble .
20. The magician's concentration was a hokus pokus .
21. A chuckle is a laugh .
22. A converse is a reverse . (well, not really).