Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14) What time does the official celebration begin?
3:14 PM
7:22 PM
1:59 PM
5:18 PM
2. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Who did the first proof to find the number pi?
Archimedes
Pythagorus
Socrates
Boyle
3. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?
Pi Bee
Pie baking Contest
Pie eating competition
Mails its acceptance letters
4. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
The symbol for pi was introduced in the last _____ years.
100
200
300
400
5. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
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?
7
2
0
8
6. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter "π" its current mathematical definition?
Isaac Newton
William Jones
Napoleon Bonaparte
Archimedes
7. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Who was the first group to find a value for π?
Egyptians
Babylonians
Romans
Greeks
8. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
How many hours did it take a supercomputer to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits, in 1997?
78
3
29
124
9. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
Euler
Einstein
Descartes
Fibonacci
10. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
People tried for centuries to "square the circle". What were they trying to do?
Construct a square to perfectly circumscribe a circle
Construct a square of equal area to a given circle
Multiply a circle by itself
fit a round peg in square hole
11. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What is the "formal" definition of pi?
22/7
3.1415926
the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
the surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7
12. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
3.1415926
3.1426870
3.1301269
3.2045761
13. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
How many digits are in pi?
10 trillion
5 billion
infinite
a lot
14. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
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
15. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?