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TRIVIA

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand Von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?

a)

Pi

b)

Angle

c)

Plus sign

d)

Square root

2.

What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?

a)

Obtuse

b)

Right

c)

Straight

d)

Acute

3.

What’s the top number of a fraction called?

a)

Denominator

b)

Numerator

c)

Mixed Number

d)

Whole Number

4.

What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Aristotle

c)

Euclid

d)

Pythagoras

5.

What’s a polygon with four unequal sides called?

a)

Triangle

b)

Rectangle

c)

Quadrilateral

d)

Pentagon

6.

What’s a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?

a)

Triangle

b)

Hologram

c)

Pentagon

d)

Rectangle

7.

What number does “giga” stand for?

a)

One Hundred

b)

One Thousand

c)

One Million

d)

One Billion

8.

What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?

a)

Five

b)

Three

c)

One

d)

Zero

9.

What word describes a number system with a base of two?

a)

Decimal

b)

Binary

c)

Octal

d)

Hexadecimal

10.

How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?

a)

Ten

b)

Twenty

c)

Thirty

d)

Forty

11.

What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?

a)

Pentagon

b)

Hexagon

c)

Heptagon

d)

Octagon

12.

What T-word is defined in geometry as “a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it”?

a)

Tangent

b)

Tangerine

c)

Trigonometry

d)

Terms

13.

What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?

a)

Hexagon

b)

Heptagon

c)

Octagon

d)

Nonagon

14.

What number is an improper fraction always greater than?

a)

Zero

b)

1

c)

1/2

d)

1/4

15.

What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?

a)

X and K

b)

K and M

c)

K and L

d)

X and M

16.

What’s short for “binary digit”?

a)

Bit

b)

Lit

c)

Kit

d)

Pit

17.

What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?

a)

Fifteenth

b)

Sixteenth

c)

Seventeenth

d)

Eighteenth

18.

What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?

a)

Google

b)

Googol

c)

Goose

d)

Goggle

19.

What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with seven sides?

a)

Pentagon

b)

Heptagon

c)

Hexagon

d)

Octagon

20.

What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with ten sides?

a)

Decagon

b)

Nonagon

c)

Octagon

d)

Heptagon