Math Movie Trivia

In the movie A Beautiful Mind, which famous mathematician's life is depicted?

• Alan Turing

• John Nash

• Isaac Newton

• Carl Gauss

In The Imitation Game, what was Alan Turing trying to break?

• The Caesar cipher

• The Enigma code

• The Vigenere cipher

• The Morse code

In Good Will Hunting, what subject is Will particularly gifted in?

• Chemistry

• Literature

• Mathematics

• Physics

Which of these movies is based on the true story of African-American women mathematicians working at NASA?

• Hidden Figures

• The Theory of Everything

• Contact

• October Sky

In Moneyball, what type of math is used to build a winning baseball team?

• Probability

• Game Theory

• Statistics

• Calculus

In the movie Pi, the main character is obsessed with finding what?

• The largest prime number

• A numerical pattern in the stock market

• The value of Pi to infinite digits

• A new mathematical formula

In The Man Who Knew Infinity, who plays the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan?

• Dev Patel

• Rami Malek

• Irrfan Khan

• Naveen Andrews

In The Theory of Everything, what scientific and mathematical subject does Stephen Hawking primarily work on?

• Algebraic geomtry

• Quantum mechanics and cosmlogy

• Number theory

• Topology

In 21, what mathematical strategy is used by students to win at blackjack?

• Counitng cards

• Probability distributions

• Game theory

• Differential equations

Which of the following movies involves a math competition between students?

• Stand and Deliver

• Searching for Bobby Fischer

• Mean Girls

• The Great Debaters