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Even if you don’t know an icosagon from a scalene triangle, you’ll recognize some of the shapes in today’s Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match nine of them with their proper names?
100% Easier than I expected. I guess I just had to slow down and think about the answers, then everything sort of fell into place. The shapes at the top helped a lot - I would never have been able to conjure the shape of Utah in my head.
posted by Bill T. on 3-12-2008 at 10:53 am
I’ve never bothered to post my score on a quiz before, but I had to do this one. I was amazed that I remembered enough 8th grade geometry to get all 9 right!
posted by Dee on 3-12-2008 at 10:54 am
100% - finally! First time I’ve done that (and not for lack of trying)!
posted by Betsy on 3-12-2008 at 10:55 am
9/9. This is the first quiz I’ve aced. To celebrate, I’m going to go eat lunch.
posted by Ira on 3-12-2008 at 10:59 am
100% as well, though I must say my brain was tempted to put 5 next to Pentagon, 6 next to hexagon, etc. Chalk it up to a grade school flashback.
posted by Mean Joe on 3-12-2008 at 10:59 am
100% also! Not bad for this old English major.
posted by kate on 3-12-2008 at 11:23 am
I got 7/9. But to be fair I was mostly guessing. I knew like 4 of them. So 4/9 should be my real number.
posted by Scott on 3-12-2008 at 11:25 am
100% … was it OK to use the internet? Because I didnt get to use it when I was in the 8th grade…some 30 years ago.
posted by Don Stakes on 3-12-2008 at 11:55 am
100%, with bonus shame for knowing so many corporate logos off the top of my head.
posted by Mary Sue on 3-12-2008 at 12:20 pm
100%. This is the first test I’ve scored perfect on, but apparently so has everyone else.
So much for being special…
posted by Florida on 3-12-2008 at 12:33 pm
7/9 for me. Even though I should have got them all of right.
posted by MikeTrig on 3-12-2008 at 12:48 pm
woo hoo!! 9/9! i think i may have cheated though…i didnt know what some of the shapes were called so i used goodle to look up the shapes. but i knew what their matches were once i knew what they looked like!
posted by nicole on 3-12-2008 at 12:52 pm
Trust me, Florida, that’s a good score. I just checked, and the quiz has an average score of 69 percent, with 1000 plays thus far.
People are just more apt to comment to a quiz that they just aced… like you!
posted by Sandy on 3-12-2008 at 1:05 pm
aced it…
posted by ann on 3-12-2008 at 1:16 pm
The shapes at the top definitely helped. I would have had no idea what the Orkin logo looked like. 9/9!
posted by BeckyJ on 3-12-2008 at 1:43 pm
9/9. But, as a Geometry teacher, I feel compelled to note that the Orkin logo looks the most like what we call a rhombus (an quadrilateral with four congruent sides). I’ve never heard the term “lozenge” used for this shape. Inneresting! And I love the latin name for the Venn diagram (the MasterCard logo). I may throw that out during class one day.
posted by Shawna on 3-12-2008 at 1:53 pm
Yikes, I’m almost embarrassed to say mine - 4/9.
I’m not surprised though - I failed geometry…twice.
posted by Melodye on 3-12-2008 at 2:21 pm
100%, but the shapes at the top certainly helped. I wouldn’t have remembered the Orkin logo without them.
posted by Tiffany on 3-12-2008 at 5:11 pm
I’m so ashamed… 5/9. Looks like I need to go back to school and learn my shapes!
posted by Tricia on 3-12-2008 at 5:25 pm
Tiffany: “I wouldn’t have remembered the Orkin logo without them.”
At least you have heard of them! Makes it rather difficult for us Brits when there are several companies that are not international enough to be known outside the US.
posted by Pushler on 3-13-2008 at 7:06 am
Aced it. but I am in geometry now so…..
posted by Allen on 3-13-2008 at 9:37 am