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WorksheetsPI DAY TRIVIA
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In September, 1999, the value of Pi was calculated to a record number of decimal places. How many?
a)
206 million
b)
zero
c)
206 billion
d)
206 trillion
2.
How is Pi defined?
a)
The ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference
b)
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
c)
The ratio of the radius of a circle to its circumference
d)
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius
3.
Pi is best described as what type of number?
a)
an irregular fraction
b)
irrational number
c)
an integer
d)
a rational number
4.
Pi rounded to 9 decimals is:
a)
3.141952654
b)
3.142592654
c)
3.141592654
d)
3.142952654
5.
True or false: there is a 'pi day'?
a)
True
b)
False
6.
Which of these fractions is closest to Pi?
a)
45 over 16
b)
5 over 3
c)
21 over 8
d)
22 over 7
7.
Pi is named after a letter of which alphabet?
a)
Egyptian
b)
Greek
c)
English
d)
Chineese
8.
Which of the following is FALSE?
a)
A early, crude calculation of Pi appears in the Bible
b)
The Babylonians found the first known value of Pi
c)
Pi has been memorized to more than 120,000 digits
d)
There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi
9.
If you multiply Pi by the square of the radius of a circle, what do you get?
a)
The circle's diameter
b)
The circle's area
c)
The circle's circumference
d)
The circle's radius
10.
Which number appears most in the first 6 billion decimal places of Pi?
a)
2
b)
1
c)
0
d)
5
11.
Roughly at what period was the discovery of a constant that we now call Pi ?
a)
prehistoric
b)
first civilisation (egyptian, babylonian)
c)
ancient greece and romans
d)
middle ages
12.
How did Archimedes die (Around 212 B.C.)?
a)
killed by a roman soldiers when syracuse was taken
b)
of old age
c)
he fell in the sea while defending his town against the romans
d)
of a long exotic illness
13.
What was Archimedes' famous method to approximate Pi?
a)
fins a square of the same area of a circle and deduce an approximation for Pi
b)
calculate the perimeters of n-sided polygons inscibed and circumscibed in a circle and make n tend to infinity
c)
calculate the diameter of a circle fixing it's circumference at 1
d)
bake pies and calculate it's circumference
14.
What numerical system did the chinese, so talented in the approximation of Pi, since the antiquity?
a)
Base 16
b)
Base 10
c)
Base 60 (like the egyptians)
d)
Base 2
15.
In the middle ages, who was one of the first to intoduce in Europe base 10 as a calculation reference and found an approximation of Pi ?
a)
Viete
b)
Cardan
c)
Ferrari
d)
Fibonacci
16.
A man stayed famous in Germany as he spend his life calculating 35 decimals of Pi, published in 1615. Was it:
a)
William Shanks
b)
John Machin
c)
Ludolph van Ceulen
d)
Leibniz
17.
A revolution in the calculation of the decimals was due to the introduction of the arctan formulae in 1706. To who do we have to thank for this brilliant discovery?
a)
John Machin
b)
Euler
c)
Huygens
d)
James Grégory
18.
The transcendance of Pi is linked to the famous ancient problem. Is it:
a)
The trissection of an angle
b)
the square egg
c)
the squaring of a circle
d)
the duplication of a cube
19.
What was the name of the English mathematician that went to meet this Indian genius and invite him to work with him from 1914 to 1919?
a)
Hardy
b)
Littlewood
c)
Hilbert
d)
James West
20.
Who designed for the first time the constant for the letter Pi in 1706?
a)
John Machin
b)
Euler
c)
William Jones
d)
James Grégory
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