MATH TRIVIA
Calculate the quotient of 150 and 3. Answer
50
The value of 529g after rounding up to the nearest tenth of a gram. Answer
530
Apart from one, I am the first positive number that is both a square and a cube. Answer
64
How many years a septcentennial has? Answer
700
How many days are there in one leap year? Answer
86,400
if N equals 0.999, then 10N equals? Answer
9.99
What is the square root of a quarter? Answer
A half
The Most Notable Achievement Of Islamic Mathematics Was The Development Of What?
Algebra
What is the value of e?
Approximately 2.718
What three numbers have the same result when added or multiplied together? Answer
(1), (2), and (3)
What is the only number that does not have its Roman numeral? Answer
0
What is the name of this sequence
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55...? Answer: Fibonacci numbers
In decimal form, what is four-fifths? Answer
0.8
What is 20 to the power of 0? Answer
1
What is the significance of the Golden Ratio? Answer
1.618
As a real-time unit, what does a jiffy mean? Answer
1/100th of a second.
What Is The Meaning Of 'Crore'?
10 million
What is the net prime number following the number 7? Answer
11
When is Pi Day celebrated? Answer
14 March
Most Of The Mathematical Notation In Use Today Was Not Invented Until When?
16th century
. What Is The Only Number That Is Twice The Sum Of Its Digits?
18
What is the sum of all the interior angles of a triangle? Answer
180°
How Many Sides Does An "Enneadecagon" Have?
19
How many sides does an "enneadecagon" have? Answer
19
What is the only prime number that is even? Answer
2
What Is The Smallest Number That Can Be Exactly Divided By All The Numbers 1 To 10?
2520
What is the name of the number system that has a base of two? Answer
Binary
Which Ancient Mathematician Used The Value Of Zero For The First Time?
Brahmagupta
What Was Developed As A Tool Used To Investigate A Change In Natural Sciences?
Calculus
It is a technique of verifying arithmetic calculations such as +, -,x, ÷. Answer
Casting Out Nines
Who invented the use of negative numbers? Answer
Chinese
What Was The Number 0 Originally Called?
Cipher
What was the original name for the number 0? Answer
Cipher
What geometric form does not have any vertices? Answer
Circle or Sphere
What is the term used for the perimeter of a circle? Answer
Circumference
What do you call the circles with the same center? Answer
Concentric
The spiral shapes of sunflowers, snails and shells follow the , where the two previous numbers are added together to get the next. (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34...)
Fibonacci sequence
What is the only number that has letters in alphabetical order? Answer
Forty
In 1940, what number one followed by 100 zeros was used by Milton Sirotta for the first time? Answer
Googol.
What is the world's biggest known number? Answer
Googolplex
What is the foundation of our present numerical system? Answer
Hindu-Arabic Numeral System
Which flat picture may also be shown in three dimensions? Answer
Hologram
The use of Arabic Numerals is invented in what country?Answer
India
Where Were The Arabic Numerals Invented?
India
How many digits does the value of Pi have? Answer
Infinite
Lemniscate Is The Shape Of What Mathematical Symbol?
Infinity
What is the shape of the mathematical symbol lemniscate? Answer
Infinity
In Israel
Instead Of "+", They Use What?, inverted t
What Unit Of Time Is 1/100th Of A Second?
Jiffy
What is the fundamental metric unit of mass? Answer
Kilogram
Who developed number-based paint? Answer
Leonardo Da Vinci
What Did John Napier Invent In 1614?
Logarithms 50
When Is Pi Day Celebrated?
March 14
What is the definition of the DMAS rule? Answer
Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction
What is the number of sides on a nonagon? Answer
Nine
What Is The Symbol Of Division Called?
Obelus
What is the name of the symbol used in the division? Answer
Obelus
What is the name of an angle of more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees? Answer
Obtuse angle
What does the mathematical symbol for the pound sign (#) stand for? Answer
Octothorpe
What does the term "Giga" refer to? Answer
One Billion
Is the curve of a convex shape inside or outward curved? Answer
Outward.
What does the Ancient Greek term calculus mean? Answer
Pebbles
What Common Math Term Means "For Every One Hundred" In Latin?.
Percent
In 1882, Whiz Ferdinand Von Lindemann discovered which Mathematical Symbol? Answer
Pi
What Is The Other Name For The International Day Of Mathematics?
Pi Day
What Had A Simple Calculation Error That Went Unnoticed For 300 Years?
Principia Mathematica
What Mathematician Noticed That The Morning And Evening Star Were One And The Same?
Pythagoras
Who was the Greek father of mathematics, who represented equations and numbers using little rocks? Answer
Pythagoras of Samos
What comes after a trillion? Answer
Quadrillion
Who popularized the statement, "Cogito, ergo sum." Answer
Rene Descartes
Who Invented The Equals Sign?
Robert Recorde
Who created the equal sign? Answer
Robert Recorde (1557)
What Is The Name Given To A Triangle With All Sides Of A Different Length?
Scalene
He is considered the fastest human calculator. Answer
Scott Flansburg (Guinness World Record,2001)
How many times can a sheet of paper be folded in half? Answer
Seven
Our timekeeping is based on what number system? Answer
Sexagesimal Number System
Where Did Archimedes Hail From?
SyracuseGreece
What does the term 'crore' mean? Answer
Ten Million
Icosahedrons have how many equal sides? Answer
Twenty
What do you call the two consecutive primes that differ by two? Answer
Twin Primes
part of a circle between any two points.
arc
Who Were The First People To Ever Use Negative Numbers?
chinese
Every Odd Number Has What Letter In It?
e
greater than a semicircle which measures between 180° and 360°.
major arc
is less than a semicircle and its measure is between 0° and 180°
minor arc
What Is The First Number To Contain The Letter 'A'?
one thousand
an arc which is 𝑜𝑛𝑒-ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 of a circle. It measures exactly 180
semicircle
How Many Equal Sides Does An Icosahedron Have?
twenty
