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1
Which English mathematician joined a team that cracked German codes during World War II?
Ada Lovelace
Ruth Lawrence
Joan Clarke
Frances Kirwan
2
Rajveer Meena holds the record for most digits of π memorized. How many did he memorize?
1,000,000
70,000
500
3,000
3
The numerals we commonly use (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) are called "________ numerals."
Latin
Roman
Arabic
Greek
4
Which of the following numbers is perfect (mathematically speaking)?
0
42
28
1
5
Which number was named by a 9 year old in 1920?
googol
zillion
zero
π
6
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi helped develop what branch of mathematics in the 9th century?
calculus
algebra
geometry
trigonometry
7
If you were to spell all the numbers 1 through 1000, how many times would the letter
A
appear?
1
99
0
19
8
In 1557 Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented what important mathematical symbol?
>
÷
=
+
9
Which English mathematician led a team that cracked the German codes during World War II?
Charles Babbage
Isaac Newton
Alan Turing
Stephen Hawking
10
Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer, was the daughter of what British poet?
Samuel Coleridge
Lord Byron
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
11
What is the result of adding all of the whole numbers from 1 to 100?
5,050
112,200
1,000
1,234,560
12
What is the smallest number that can be divided by every whole number from 1 to 10?
300
3,670
2,520
1,427
13
The Ishango bone, the oldest evidence of humans doing advanced math, was found in what country?
Egypt
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Greece
Turkey
14
What is the probability that two students in a class of 23 share the same birthday?
18.63%
0.04%
1.07%
50.05%