Mathematics
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Easy Questions
8How many sides does a heptagon have?
The correct answer is C. 7
What is the symbol for Displacement?
The correct answer is D. Ξr
What is the correct order of operations for solving equations?
The correct answer is C. Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction
How many sides does a trapezium have?
The correct answer is B. 4
What's the square root of 49?
The correct answer is C. 7
In Roman Numerals, what does XL equate to?
The correct answer is B. 40
What prime number comes next after 19?
The correct answer is B. 23
The metric prefix "atto-" makes a measurement how much smaller than the base unit?
The correct answer is C. One Quintillionth
Medium Questions
16What is the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 inches if Ο= 3.1415?
The correct answer is B. 314.15 Inches
How many books are in Euclid's Elements of Geometry?
The correct answer is B. 13
In the hexadecimal system, what number comes after 9?
The correct answer is C. The Letter A
What are the first 6 digits of the number "Pi"?
The correct answer is B. 3.14159
What type of function is xΒ²+2x+1?
The correct answer is C. Quadratic
To the nearest whole number, how many radians are in a whole circle?
The correct answer is D. 6
What is the alphanumeric representation of the imaginary number?
The correct answer is B. i
What shape does sin(x) or cos(x) make on a graph?
The correct answer is C. Waves
Which mathematician refused the Fields Medal?
The correct answer is C. Grigori Perelman
What is the first Mersenne prime exponent over 1000?
The correct answer is C. 1279
Which greek mathematician ran through the streets of Syracuse naked while shouting "Eureka" after discovering the principle of displacement?
The correct answer is A. Archimedes
Which of the following dice is not a platonic solid?
The correct answer is A. 10-sided die
What is the Roman numeral for 500?
The correct answer is B. D
What Greek letter is used to signify summation?
The correct answer is D. Sigma
In the complex plane, multiplying a given function by i rotates it anti-clockwise by how many degrees?
The correct answer is D. 90
How many zeros are there in a googol?
The correct answer is D. 100
Hard Questions
13How many zeptometres are inside one femtometre?
The correct answer is A. 1,000,000
How many Millibars (mbar) to 1 Inch of Mercury (inHg)
The correct answer is D. 33.9
Which of the following mathematicians made major contributions to game theory?
The correct answer is B. John Von Neumann
The notion of a "set that contains all sets which do not contain themselves" is a paradoxical idea attributed to which English philospher?
The correct answer is B. Bertrand Russel
What is the approximate value of mathematical constant e?
The correct answer is C. 2.72
Which of the following famous mathematicians died in a duel at the age of 20?
The correct answer is C. Galois
What is the fourth digit of Ο?
The correct answer is A. 1
The French mathematician Γvariste Galois is primarily known for his work in which?
The correct answer is B. Galois Theory
Which of these numbers is closest to the total number of possible states for an army standard Enigma Machine?
The correct answer is B. 1.58 x 10^20
What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways?
The correct answer is A. 1729
What is the plane curve proposed by Descartes to challenge Fermat's extremum-finding techniques called?
The correct answer is D. Folium of Descartes
What is the derivative of Acceleration with respect to time?
The correct answer is B. Jerk
The decimal number 31 in hexadecimal would be what?
The correct answer is B. 1F
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