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1. In what year was the battle anthem of Fetty Wap written?

1738

2. In a recent trend of popular vines, a young boy is affectionately told “You stupid” after answering
what to the question: “What’s 9 + 10”?

21

3. A pizza has 8 slices. Alibaba and his thief friends are hungry and would like to eat 5 slices each. With
the exception of Fat Sinbad, who eats a whole pizza by himself. How many pizzas must Alibaba order to
feed his friends?

26

Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.

Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.

Q: What's the top number of a fraction called?


A: The numerator.

Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in
530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.

Q: What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?


A: A quadrilateral.

Q: What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?


A: A hologram.

Q: What number does "giga" stand for?


A: One billion.

Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.

Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?


A: Binary.

Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?


A: Twenty.

Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?


A: An octagon.
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with
crossing it"?
A: Tangent.

Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.

Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?


A: One.

Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?


A: K and M.

Q: What's short for "binary digit"?


A: Bit.

Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.

Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in
1940?
A: Googol.

Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made
the scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rule's.

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