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Quiz about This Sums It Up  Math Puns
Quiz about This Sums It Up  Math Puns

This Sums It Up - Math Puns Trivia Quiz


See if you can differentiate between the right and wrong answers to these somewhat cringeworthy math puns. I've also tried to integrate some more punny stuff in the interesting information.

A multiple-choice quiz by eburge. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
eburge
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
323,148
Updated
Jul 16 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
2824
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Aph1976 (6/10), lethisen250582 (10/10), gibbysgab (2/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. It was a very sad day for the mathematician. I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to a dead bird in a cage and said what? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. I had just left the house to go for a walk when it started raining. Rather than get completely drenched, I decided to cancel my walk and do what? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. I saw a small purple piece of fruit commuting the other day. What might it be? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. I saw a kettle suspended above a fire boiling some water. What might it have been described as? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. So two straight lines are having a chat. One says to the other, "Hey, that 30° angle over there looks quite nice." The other replies, "Yeah, she's..." what? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. A good mathematician friend of mine (I have a lot of them, by the way) retired the other week, to a nice house out in the country. I went and visited him, and saw a sign out the front displaying the name of the house. What was it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. It was a hot day, so I drove down to the beach. There was a sunburned man there. What would that make him? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. A friend's daughter brought home a plant that she had been growing during math classes. It looked fine, but then she took it out of the pot, and the bottom part of it was quite strange. What made the plant odd? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. I heard that there was a student who had problems in math class, so the teacher gave him a pair of special glasses to improve what? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. I was asked if I thought Newton could transform into an umbrella. I replied with what? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. It was a very sad day for the mathematician. I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to a dead bird in a cage and said what?

Answer: "Polygon."

I asked the mathematician what killed the bird. He said, "Polynomial."
2. I had just left the house to go for a walk when it started raining. Rather than get completely drenched, I decided to cancel my walk and do what?

Answer: Coincide

Two lines that cross each other are said to coincide at the point of intersection.

Sitting inside while it was raining, I thought I might expand (a+b)^n just for my own amusement. Here's what I did:
(a+b)^n
( a + b ) ^ n
( a + b ) ^ n
( a + b ) ^ n
3. I saw a small purple piece of fruit commuting the other day. What might it be?

Answer: An Abelian grape

I've thought to myself many times about group theory. I wondered why Newton hadn't discovered it. I realised he wasn't Abel.

(By the way, an Abelian group is one which displays commutativity.)
4. I saw a kettle suspended above a fire boiling some water. What might it have been described as?

Answer: Hypotenuse

My mother made cookies in the shape of plus signs, and asked if I wanted some, but I declined - there were too many additives.
5. So two straight lines are having a chat. One says to the other, "Hey, that 30° angle over there looks quite nice." The other replies, "Yeah, she's..." what?

Answer: Acute angle

I like angles...to a degree.
6. A good mathematician friend of mine (I have a lot of them, by the way) retired the other week, to a nice house out in the country. I went and visited him, and saw a sign out the front displaying the name of the house. What was it?

Answer: Aftermath

He was also planning a trip to a little cabin that his family owned. It started me thinking - if you were to integrate 1/cabin, you'd get log cabin. But that of course is not the full answer. You need to add the arbitrary constant, making it log cabin + c. And what is a log cabin + c? A houseboat.
7. It was a hot day, so I drove down to the beach. There was a sunburned man there. What would that make him?

Answer: A tangent

The man said he was a lumberjack. I asked if he was a good musician. He said no and asked why. I said that lumberjacks make good musicians because of their natural logarithms.
8. A friend's daughter brought home a plant that she had been growing during math classes. It looked fine, but then she took it out of the pot, and the bottom part of it was quite strange. What made the plant odd?

Answer: Square roots

I suppose growing a plant is easy. Maybe as easy as dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter. Yes, I'd say it's as easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433...
9. I heard that there was a student who had problems in math class, so the teacher gave him a pair of special glasses to improve what?

Answer: Division

e^x wanted to be friends with the others at school more than anything, but it just wouldn't work. He tried again and again to integrate himself, but it made no difference.
10. I was asked if I thought Newton could transform into an umbrella. I replied with what?

Answer: Cosecant

Little known fact: Newton had a small farm, where he kept swine and cowswine.
Source: Author eburge

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