The Five & Ten Trivia Quiz

Answer: a pentagon

A quadrilateral has four sides. A five-pointed star has ten sides. The Pentagon, a five-sided building in Washington, D.C., serves as the U.S. military headquarters. On 9/11/2001 terrorists attacked the Pentagon and partially destroyed it.

Answer: quintuplets

Quintuplets, sometimes called "quints," are very rare. Quintuplets who survive often become famous, as did the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets, born in 1936.

Answer: one dollar

To quintuple means to multiply by five. Five times 20 cents equals 100 cents, or one dollar.

Answer: cinq

CINQ is pronounced like the English word SANK. CINQUANTE (pronounced sang-KAWNT) means "fifty."

Answer: .

The decimal point separates the dollars from the cents. DECIMAL comes from the Latin root word DECEM, which means "ten." In a decimal number such as 1.1 (one and one-tenth), the decimal point separates the ones column and the tenths column.

Answer: decade

A millennium is a thousand-year period, a century lasts one hundred years, and a centennial is a 100-year anniversary. Each decade in the 1900s seemed to have a different character. For instance, the 1960s was a decade of youthful rebellion (in the fields of music, politics, and so on). Actually this rebellious period spilled into the 1970s, as well.

Answer: decathlon

An official decathlon consists of ten track-and-field events in the following order: 100-meter race, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter race, 110-meter hurdles, discus throwing, pole vault, javelin throwing and 1500-meter race. There are academic decathlons, too, in which students compete in ten different subject areas.

Answer: a decagon

A hexagon has six sides and an octagon has eight.

Answer: December

According to this calendar, September was the seventh month, October was the eighth, November was the ninth, and December was the tenth (and last). Somewhere along the line they added two extra months and the last four each got bumped up by two. Now September is the ninth month, October is the tenth, and so on.

Answer: a store where most items cost five or ten cents

Such a store was also called a "Five and Dime." To "nickel and dime" someone means to keep charging that person small amounts of money until the total adds up to a lot.