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ASMEPPS REVIEWER TRIVIA

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Taj Mahal located in ___ is 73 Meters in height

a)

Greece

b)

China

c)

India

d)

Pakistan

2.

Who is the Father of Mathematics?

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Archimedes

c)

Euclid

d)

Plato

3.

Googol is 1 with 100 zeros, it was used in ___

a)

1935

b)

1940

c)

1934

d)

1937

4.

Who invented Algebra?

a)

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

b)

René Descartes

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Isaac Newton

5.

The mathematician Pythagoras was born around 569 BC. Where did Pythagoras live?

a)

Greece

b)

Samos

c)

Cyrene

d)

Alexandria

6.

Eratosthenes of ___ was a Greek mathematician who worked on prime numbers and geometry.

a)

Pisa

b)

Alexandria

c)

Cyrene

d)

Syracuse

7.

This is the smallest perfect number

(a)  

8.

He is best known for the widely used formula known as the Pythagorean Theorem.

a)

Pythagoream

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Euclid

d)

Blaise Pascal

9.

Which famous mathematician was born in Sicily around 287 BC?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Hypatia

c)

Al-Khwarizmi

d)

Eratosthenes

10.

__ is known for Fibonacci Numbers

a)

Leonardo Fibonacci

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Archimedes

11.

Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal __.

a)

Algebra

b)

Trigonometry

c)

Science

d)

Calculus

12.

Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book ‘__’ after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.

a)

Fibonacci Numbers

b)

Liber Abaci

c)

Fibonacci Sequence

d)

Abaci

13.

Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the ‘Father of __’ for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called ‘Elements’ that he wrote around the year 300 BC.

a)

Mathematics

b)

Algebra

c)

Geometry

d)

Science

14.

Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for __ Last Theorem.

a)

Pierre de Fermat's

b)

Fermat’s

c)

Pierre's

d)

The

15.

In __, French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.

a)

1642

b)

1640

c)

1641

d)

1645

16.

Born in 1953, British mathematician __ is most famous for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem.

a)

Alan Turing

b)

George Boole

c)

Andrew Wiles

d)

Arthur Cayley

17.

Galileo Galilei was a famous mathematician and astronomer. Where was he born?

a)

Pisa

b)

Cyrene

c)

Switzerland

d)

Alexandria

18.

Descartes, the philosopher, scientist and mathematician, is known for his work on analytic geometry. What was his nationality?

a)

British

b)

German

c)

Greek

d)

French

19.

What was the nationality of the eighteenth century mathematician Leonhard Euler?

a)

German

b)

Swiss

c)

French

d)

British

20.

The __ sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ....

a)

Arithmetic

b)

Fibonacci

c)

Geometric

d)

Einstein

21.

In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes __ made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.

a)

Kepler

b)

Gutenberg

c)

Brahms

d)

John

22.

Archimedes of __ lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.

a)

Syracuse

b)

Cyrene

c)

Alexandria

d)

Pisa

23.

__ theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a² + b² = c²

a)

Trigonometry

b)

Pythagorean

c)

Einstein

d)

Pythagoran

24.

Described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.

a)

Emmy Noether

b)

Hypatia of Alexandria

c)

Sophie Germain

d)

Ada Lovelace

25.

Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today’s measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.__).

a)

.14

b)

.15

c)

.20

d)

.16

26.

The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named .

a)

Thomas Harriot

b)

William Oughtred

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Robert Recorde

27.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is located in __

a)

China

b)

Pisa

c)

France

d)

India

28.

Burj Khalifa is located in __

a)

Pakistan

b)

India

c)

Dubai

d)

Malaysia

29.

Pantheon is located in __

a)

China

b)

Rome

c)

Greece

d)

Belgium

30.

Parthenon is located in __

a)

Egypt

b)

Greece

c)

London

d)

Rome

31.

Who were the first to use negative numbers?

a)

Indian

b)

British

c)

Chinese

d)

Italian

32.

Arithmetica is a series of books by __

a)

Pierre de Fermat

b)

Euclid

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Diophantus

33.

Who invented the Infinity Symbol?

a)

John Wallis

b)

Johann Heinrich Rahn

c)

Descartes

d)

Isaac Newton

34.

Among the many mathematical problems Plato posed for his students’ investigation were the so-called __ Classical Problems

a)

Five

b)

Four

c)

Three

d)

Ten

35.

__ most famous work is the Republic, which details a wise society run by a philosopher.

a)

Euclid's

b)

Einstein's

c)

Thale's

d)

Plato's

36.

Pythagoras of __ was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.

a)

Cyrene

b)

Samos

c)

Pisa

d)

Alexandria

37.

Euclid, sometimes called Euclid of __ to distinguish him from Euclid of Megara, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry".

a)

Alexandria

b)

Megara

c)

Cyrene

d)

India

38.

Eratosthenes may have been the first to use the word __.

a)

Trigonometry

b)

Mathematics

c)

Geography

d)

Science

39.

The radical symbol first appeared in 1525 in Die Coss by __

a)

Christoff Rudolff

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Isaac Newton

40.

__ thus proposed that things change from one form to another.

a)

Plato

b)

Thales

c)

Descartes

d)

Newton

41.

The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool which has been used since ancient times. Where is it from?

a)

India

b)

China

c)

Russia

d)

Europe

42.

The first computer that resembled the modern machines we see today was invented by Charles Babbage between 1833 and __.

a)

1871

b)

1870

c)

1873

d)

1869

43.

Leonhard Euler is well known for his contributions to mathematical vocabulary and notation.  In particular, he is considered the founder of function __.

a)

geometry

b)

mathematics

c)

vocabulary

d)

notation

44.

A __ has twelve pentagonal sides

a)

Dodecahedron

b)

Pentagon

c)

Octahedron

d)

Square

45.

Pi was invented by?

a)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

William Jones

d)

Blaise Pascal

46.

What is a curved line that is a part of the circumference of a circle?

a)

Tangent

b)

Arc

c)

Point

d)

Radius

47.

What is the sum of the first 200 counting numbers?

a)

20100

b)

5100

c)

20050

d)

5050

48.

What is another term for the hashtag sign or the no. sign (#)?

a)

Asterisk

b)

Interrogation Mark

c)

Vinculum

d)

Octothorpe

49.

Who stated that any floating object displaces its own weight of fluid?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Euclid

c)

Newton

d)

Einstein

50.

The + and - symbols first appeared in print in a book called ___ by ___

a)

Elements by Euclid

b)

Mercantile by Johannes Widmann

c)

Liber Abaci by Fibonacci

d)

The Republic by Plato