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A quiz about math history for math day.
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1
Which famous female mathematician did the movie Hidden Figures base the main character on?
Grace Hopper
Charlotte Scott
Julia Robinson
Katherine Johnson
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Who published a book about geometry titled, "The Elements?"
Hippocrates
Ms. Simpson
Plato
Euclid
3
What is the name for the study of triangles?
Derivatives
Calculus
Trigonometry
Non-Euclidean Geometry
4
Where was Leonhard Euler born?
Germany
Russia
Switzerland
Prussia
5
Which mathematician was said to have ran around yelling "Eureka!" in the nude?
Archimedes
Aristotle
Mr. West
Euclid
6
Who is responsible for the general and special theories of relativity?
Stephen Hawking
Mr. Kezmarsky
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
7
Where was Pythagoras born?
Mauritius
Samos
Crete
Rhodes
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0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . . Who found it?
Blaise Pascal
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Leonardo Fibonacci
Ptolemy
9
Who created the coordinate plane?
Bonaventura Cavalieri
René Descartes
Leonhard Euler
Colonel Sanders
10
Which mathematician is pictured?
Emmy Noether
Ada Lovelace
Julia Robinson
Hypatia of Alexandria
11
True/false: Newton actually discovered gravity when he witnessed an apple falling from a tree.
False
Who cares?!
True
I don't know. . .
12
In elementary school, who amazed a teacher by adding all the numbers from 1 to 100 in seconds?
Daniel Bernoulli
Gerald Boarman
Friedrich Gauss
Albert Einstein
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Who is your favorite mathematician?
Isaac Newton
Mrs. Smith
Sophie Germain
Albert Einstein
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Which language does the word "algebra" come from?
Llogoori
Greek
Arabic
Latin
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Who is responsible for the famous equation, "a
2
+ b
2
= c
2
?"
Pierre de Fermat
Pythagorean
David Hilbert
Pythagoras