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