Monday, May 23, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #135 - Math Trivia Questions and Answers

Math trivia questions and answers.
  1. What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann
    determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
     
  2. What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than
    180 degrees?
     
  3. What's the top number of a fraction called?
     
  4. What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening
    star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
     
  5. What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?
     
  6. What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
     
  7. What number does "giga" stand for?
     
  8. What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the
    West around 800 B/B.?
     
  9. What word describes a number system with a base of two?
     
  10. How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
     
  11. What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight
    sides?
     
  12. What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line
    that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?
     
  13. What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen
    wrench?
     
  14. What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
     
  15. What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
     
  16. What's short for "binary digit"?
     
  17. What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus
    signs?
     
  18. What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by
    nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
     
  19. What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when
    the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 135 - Math
Trivia Answers


  1. Pi.
  2. Obtuse.
  3. The numerator.
  4. Pythagoras.
  5. A quadrilateral.
  6. A hologram.
  7. One billion.
  8. Zero.
  9. Binary.
  10. Twenty.
  11. An octagon.
  12. Tangent.
  13. The hexagon. 
  14. One.
  15. K and M.
  16. Bit.
  17. The sixteenth.
  18. Googol.
  19. The Slide rule's.