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