Today’s Xrefer Friday Brainteaset is mostly straightforward.


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Welcome to the Friday Brainteaser from Xrefer, provider of the Xreferplus online reference service.

Shapes

Things can be a lot of different shapes: squares, circles, rectangles, etc. Test your knowledge of geometric shapes by trying to answer these questions.

Questions:

  1. What is the normal word for one half of a circle?
  2. Which word is used to describe a triangle that has all its sides of equal length?
  3. How many sides does a quadrilateral have?
  4. A rectangle is the same as an oblong: true or false?
  5. What is the word to describe a triangle that has two sides of the same length?
  6. How many sides does a pentagon have?
  7. What is the two-letter word for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter? Its value is about 3.14.
  8. How many sides does a dodecagon have - six, eight or twelve?
  9. What is a wet nurse?
  10. How many sides does a rhombus have?

The answer to Q9, in case you’re not sure, is given as:

One that has sides of unequal length

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