Quiz about Maths fun facts

Question 1

How many 1s are in the first million decimal places of pi?

Accepted Answer

99758

Answer

98578

Answer

97857

Answer

96875

Question 2

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14.  (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14)  What time does the official celebration begin?

Accepted Answer

1:59 PM

Answer

3:14 PM

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7:22 PM

Answer

5:18 PM

Question 3

What famous scientist was born on Pi Day in 1879?

Accepted Answer

Einstein

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Archimedes

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Galileo

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Newton

Question 4

What letter is pi of the Greek alphabet?

Accepted Answer

16

Answer

10

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12

Answer

14

Question 5

Lu Chao of China set a world record by memorizing the most digits of pi.  How many digits did he memorize?

Accepted Answer

67,890

Answer

68,980

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69,760

Answer

60,967

Question 6

Who did the first proof to find the number pi?

Accepted Answer

Archimedes

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Pythagorus

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Socrates

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Boyle

Question 7

What shape did Archimedes use to find pi?

Accepted Answer

pentagon

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square

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rectangle

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triangle

Question 8

What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?

Accepted Answer

mails its acceptance letters

Answer

Pi Bee

Answer

Pie baking Contest

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Pie eating competition

Question 9

Are pi's digits periodic? In other words, do the digits ever repeat themselves in any pattern?

Accepted Answer

No, pi is irrational

Answer

Yes, every 6,000,000 decimal places

Answer

Yes, every infinitely long number repeats

Answer

Maybe, not enough digits of pi are known yet

Question 10

Among the digits of pi currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?

Accepted Answer

0

Answer

7

Answer

2

Answer

8

Question 11

Who was the first group to find a value for pi?

Accepted Answer

Babylonians

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Egyptians

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Romans

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Greeks

Question 12

How many hours did it take a supercomputer to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits, in 1997?

Accepted Answer

29

Answer

78

Answer

3

Answer

124

Question 13

What do you get when you divide the circumference of a Jack-o-Lantern by its diameter?

Accepted Answer

Pumpkin Pi

Answer

Pumpkin

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Jack-o-Lantern

Answer

Pi in the Sky

Question 14

Th distance around the circular cake is 9.42 inches. The distance across the cake is 3 inches. What happens when you divide 9.42 by 3?

Accepted Answer

You get pi

Answer

You get the area of the circle

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You get the diameter of the circle

Question 15

The only way to get exactly pi is...

Accepted Answer

circumference / diameter

Answer

3.141592...

Answer

22/7

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go to a store and buy it

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bake it

Question 16

Find the AREA of this figure.

Accepted Answer

160 square feet

Answer

160 feet

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160

Answer

1600 feet

Question 17

Farmer Bob's son built a track to walk his pet pig.  The track goes around the pig pen.  The pig pen is 15 feet long and 21 feet wide.  If the pig walks all the way around the track, how many feet did he walk?

Accepted Answer

72 feet

Answer

36 feet

Answer

36 square feet

Question 18

_{Find the perimeter.}

Accepted Answer

26 units

Answer

30 units

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33 units

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40 units

Question 19

Is surface area.......

Accepted Answer

wrapping the outside of a 3 dimensional shape

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Filling in a 3 dimensional shape

Question 20

What is the surface area of this figure?

Accepted Answer

800 cm 2

Answer

200 cm 2

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400 cm 2

Answer

100 cm 2

Question 21

Find the surface area of the rectangular prism.

Accepted Answer

94 cm. squared

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60 cm. squared

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12 cm. squared

Answer

19 cm. squared

Question 22

Find the total surface . ?

Accepted Answer

130cm2

Answer

10.30cm2

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130cm3

Answer

144cm2

Question 23

What is surface area?

Accepted Answer

The sum of all the areas of all the shapes that cover the object

Answer

The measure of the amount of space inside of a solid figure

Question 24

A rectangular brick has a length of 5 centimeters, a width of  9 centimeters and a height of 20 centimeters. What is the surface area of that brick?

Accepted Answer

650 cm2

Answer

600 cm2

Answer

525 cm2

Answer

450 cm2

Question 25

How many faces does this shape have?

Accepted Answer

6

Answer

3

Answer

9

Answer

5

Question 26

Find the AREA of this figure.

Accepted Answer

160 square feet

Answer

161 feet

Answer

106

Answer

1600 feet

Question 27

What is the area of the rectangle?

Accepted Answer

15 sq cm

Answer

15 cm

Answer

2

Answer

16 cm

Question 28

What is the area of this figure?

Accepted Answer

40 square units

Answer

41 units

Answer

26

Question 29

What is the area?

Accepted Answer

12 cm2

Answer

14

Answer

14 cm2

Answer

24 cm2

Question 30

Find the area:

Accepted Answer

40 in2

Answer

13 in2

Answer

20 in2

Answer

26 in2

Question 31

Area of triangle?

Accepted Answer

10 units2

Answer

17 units2

Answer

20 units2

Answer

16 units2

Question 32

Find the area of the figure.

Accepted Answer

24 cm2

Answer

10 cm2

Answer

12 cm2

Answer

20 cm2

Question 33

What is the area?

Accepted Answer

12 cm2

Answer

14

Answer

14 cm2

Answer

24 cm2

Question 34

Find the area of the parallelogram.

Accepted Answer

12 units2

Answer

10 units2

Answer

13 units2

Answer

6 units

Question 35

What is the area of this figure?

Accepted Answer

40 square units

Answer

45 units

Answer

13

Question 36

What is the surface area of this figure?

Accepted Answer

800 cm 2

Answer

200 cm 2

Answer

400 cm 2

Answer

100 cm 2

Question 37

What is the height of this figure?

Accepted Answer

14 cm

Answer

6 cm

Answer

4 cm

Answer

24 cm

Maths fun facts

41 questions

How many 1s are in the first million decimal places of pi?

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14) What time does the official celebration begin?

What famous scientist was born on Pi Day in 1879?

What letter is pi of the Greek alphabet?

Lu Chao of China set a world record by memorizing the most digits of pi. How many digits did he memorize?

Who did the first proof to find the number pi?

What shape did Archimedes use to find pi?

What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?

Are pi's digits periodic? In other words, do the digits ever repeat themselves in any pattern?

Among the digits of pi currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?

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