Pi Day Trivia

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* 1. Where are you located?

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* 2. Enter your name.

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* 3. Enter your SID.

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* 4. True or False. Pi is a never-ending number.

True

False

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* 5. Which of these is the formal definition of Pi?

The ratio of a circle's circumference

The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter

A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry

The surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7

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* 6. Who is known as the Prince of Pi?

Mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse

Physicist Larry Shaw

Mathematician William Jones

Sir Isaac Newton

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* 7. When and where did the first celebration of Pi Day take place?

1933 in Maine

1955 in Texas

1977 in Florida

1988 in California

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* 8. How was the first official Pi Day celebrated?

Running a 5K

Solving mathematical equations involving Pi

Marching in circles and snacking on different kinds of pie

Throwing pies at the physicist who founded the holiday

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* 9. There is an entire language made from the number Pi. What is the dialect called?

Pi-nese

Pi-linguonym

Pi-lish

Pi-3.14

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* 10. What famous scientist was born on Pi Day in 1879?

Marie Curie

Charles Darwin

Albert Einstein

Isaac Newton

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* 11. The symbol for Pi is a letter of which alphabet?

English

Greek

Latin

Spanish

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* 12. Lu Chao of China set a world record by memorizing the most digits of Pi. How many digits did he memorize?

12,580

47,500

67,890

70,150

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* 13. Among the digits of π currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?

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* 14. Who was the first group to find a value for π?

Babylonians

Egyptians

Greeks

Romans

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* 15. Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?

William Jones in 1706, and later popularized by Leonhard Euler

Albert Einstein in 1706, and later popularized by Leonhard Euler

Descartes in 1706, and later popularized by Albert Einstein

Fibonacci in 1706, and later popularized by Albert Einstein

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* 16. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. What time does the official celebration begin?

3:14am

12:00pm

1:59pm

3:14pm

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* 17. On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?

Apple pie

Donut pie

Floor pie

Pumpkin pie

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* 18. What portion of Americans admit to having eaten an entire pie by themselves?

1 in 2

1 in 5

1 in 10

1 in 19