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Modern mathematics has advanced greatly thanks to the incredible computing power of
Computers
Cellular phones
Adding machines
2
Ten percent of photos ever were taken in the last.....
1 and a half years
2 months
2 years
year
3
In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the
weighing scale
clock
mechanical calculator.
4
What were this lot doing in 1980?
Doing their homework
Space Raiders championship
super mario brothers championship
pacman championship
5
Is a strawberry a berry?
nopey dopey
yes
no
of course it is why would it be called strawBERRY
6
How many americans think that global warming is a hoax?
29%
37%
100%
12%
7
Who is this mathematician
Newton
Fibonacci
Leibniz
8
The maximum distance through the sphere is called the diameter, it is ______the size of the radius.
four times
three times
twice
9
Who is this mathematician
Haggard
Descartes
Fibonacci
10
This is the earliest known team photo, but what sport did they play?
American football
Cricket
Football
Baseball
11
Who used algebra, arithmetic & geometry in 3000 BC? Example: equations to approx the area of circles.
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Europeans
Ancient Chinese
12
Mathematics is important to jobs, related to engineering, business, science, medicine and more.
True
False
13
When a penguin falls in love, the search the beach for a pebble to present the other penguin
False
True
14
The distance from the center of a sphere to its surface is called the
Diameter
midpoint
Radius
15
There was a family in kentucky that had blue skin
True
False
16
What did Leonardo Da Vinci invent
parachute
machine gun
scissors
Beats headphones
17
Some tumors can grow hair teeth and bones
true
false
18
in 1945 a rooster named Mike lived
18 months
without a head
True
False
19
How many hearts does an octopus have
3
1
7
8
20
What famous quote (s) were made by Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
All of the above
"Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
21
A cube has how many square faces?
4 faces
5 faces
6 faces
22
What is the national animal of scotland
buffalo
highland cow
yam
fabulous unicorn
23
are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes??????
White with black stripes
Black with white stripes
24
Who is this great mathematician
Fibonnaci
Euclid
Isaac Newton
25
Who is this mathematician
Euclid
Descartes
Fibonacci
26
When you blush, your toes turn red too!
False
True
27
What is Humpty Dumpty?
We don't know, it doesn't say.
An Egg
A kid
A Horse
28
France was still executing people using a guillitine when Star Wars: A New Hope came out
true
false
29
Who is this mathematician
Isaac Newton
Fibonacci
Euclid
30
a man in omaha started to eat his tv "Because he was hungry"
true
false
31
Who measured the circle circumference as 3 times the diameter, as today, the value of Pi 3.14?
Europeans
Babylonians
Chinese
32
A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun
True
False
33
a
CAT
has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years!!!!!
False
True
What is a cat?
It was a lady with a bunch of cats
34
Who said: "No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without Geometry."
Ben Franklin
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
35
what is anatidaephobia?
the fear that a duck is watching you
The fear that a bear will strike
the fear of toilets
the fear of your siblings eating you
36
For every human there are 1.5 million ants
true
false
37
what name did William Shakespeare invent?
Jessica
Emily
Alice
Catherine
38
A cube has 12 edges?
False
True
39
Until when in the USA could kids legally be sent by post?
1845
1913
1943
You're still allowed now
40
In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood what was the ending?
Everyone even the wolf eat the picnic together
The wood cutter uses grandmas house as wood for his business
The wolf and grandma fall in love and live happily everafter
the wolf and little red riding hood eat grandma together
41
Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to
Creating the Pythagorean theorem
Father of Geometry
Fibonacci sequence
42
The word ‘geometry’ comes from the Greek words ‘geo’, meaning ___________ and ‘metria’, meaning measure.
Grand
Circle
Earth
43
What TV Show is Jimmy Parsons famous for being in?
The Big Bang Theory
Saved By The Bell
Friends
The Game
44
The basic arithmetic operations used in mathematics are
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Addition, subtraction, multiplication , decimals
Addition, fractions, subtractions division
45
Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of
Trigonometry
Algebra
Infinitesimal Calculus
