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1
The Rhind papyrus was written in the
Hieratic script
Demotic script
Hieroglyphic script
Aramaic script
2
Which of the following is NOT a place name associated to an ancient Greek we have talked about in class?
Miletus
Alexandria
Crete
Samos
3
Who was the author of “On Floating Bodies”
Archimedes
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Apollonius
4
Which of the following is NOT a postulate from Book I of Euclid’s Elements?
To draw point to point on a straight line with equal space between.
To describe a circle with any center and radius.
To produce a finite straight line continuously in a straight line.
To draw a straight line from any point to any point.
5
The greatest common divisor of 330 and 156 is
6
12
4
2
6
The third character besides Socrates and the boy in Plato’s dialogue about doubling the square is
Mino
Mono
Mano
Meno
7
The "second noncube [place]" appears in the Aryabhatiya in the context of what kind of problem?
Finding square roots
Finding the greatest common divisor
Finding cube roots
Computing pi
8
The landing site of the Mars Perseverance rover has been named after the sci-fi author
Douglas Adams
John Scalzi
NK Jemisin
Octavia E Butler
9
When is our current best estimate of when the Rhind papyrus dates back to?
1650 BCE
1550 BCE
1700 BCE
1750 BCE
10
Which is NOT a platonic solid
dodecahedron
icosahedron
octahedron
heptahedron
11
The primary technique by which gerrymanders are created is known as
packing and cracking
edging and hedging
shaking and baking
grouping and looping
12
According to YBC 7289, the ancient Babylonians used the following as an approximation to the square root of 2
1;51,24,10
1.414
1;24,51,10
7/5
13
Who was born earliest (as far as we know)?
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Euclid
14
The Egyptian technique for solving for an unknown in a problem by first guessing an answer is known as
The Method of Iteration
Newton’s Algorithm
Ahmeses’ Algorithm
The Method of False Position
15
How many sides does a chiliagon have?
500
100
1000
It’s a made-up word.
16
Which of the following is from ancient Greece?
Tablet YBC 4652
Euclid’s Elements
The Rhind Papyrus
The Ishango bone
17
The technique of anthyphairesis appears in the Elements in the context of
Actually, it doesn’t appear in the Elements.
Multiplying ratios
Bisecting an angle
Finding commons measures
18
Euclid’s Elements contains which of the following?
variables
decimals
a symbol for 0
proofs
19
What is depicted on Plimpton 322?
Multiplication tables
Geometry problems
Division problems using unit fractions
Pythagorean triples
20
The third Vice President of the United States was
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Adams
Aaron Burr
21
The maximum depth of Lake Champlain in feet is approximately
300
200
100
400
22
What decimal numbers does the base-60 number (1,2,3) correspond to?
219660
360
3723
10921
23
The word “peristeronic” means
Suggestive of pigeons
Fragile
Hard to hear
Stingy
