Pi Day

Who did the first proof to find the number pi?

• Archimedes 
• Pythagorus
• Socrates
• Boyle

What shape did Archimedes use to find pi?

• square
• rectangle
• triangle
• pentagon

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

• Pi Bee
• Pie baking Contest
• Pie eating competition
• mails its acceptance letters

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

• No, pi is irrational
• Yes, every 6,000,000 decimal places
• Yes, every infinitely long number repeats
• Maybe, not enough digits of pi are known yet

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?

• 7
• 2
• 0
• 8

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

• Egyptians
• Babylonians 
• Romans
• Greeks

What is the "formal" definition of pi?

• 22/7
• 3.1415926
• the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
• the surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7

What is pi used to find? 

• the perimeter of a square
• the area of a rectangle
• radius of a circle
• circumference of a circle

How many digits are in pi?

• 10 trillion
• 5 billion 
• infinite 
• a lot 

Pi and pie are which type of word

• synonyms

• antonyms

• homophones

• homographs