Math trivia questions will put your knowledge to the test.
You learned all about numbers when you were young, but how much do you remember?
Trivia Question:Who invented paint by number?Answer:Leonardo Da Vinci invented paint by number.
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Trivia Question:Which Indian Astronomer discovered zero around 600 A.D?Answer:Brahmagupta discovered zero.
It lasted 89 days.
Trivia Question:Hundred was derived from what Norse number?Answer:Hundrath, which means 120.
Trivia Question:Who developed the cartesian axes?Answer:Rene Descartes developed the cartesian axes.
Trivia Question:How many seconds are in one day?Answer:86,400 seconds.
Trivia Question:Is Pi a rational or irrational number?Answer:Pi is irrational.
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It cannot be written as a fraction.
Trivia Question:What is the smallest perfect number?Answer:Six is the smallest perfect number.
Trivia Question:What is our current numerical system based on?Answer:The Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
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Trivia Question:Which number is considered a magic number?Answer:Nine is a magic number.
Trivia Question:What is the most popular lucky number?Answer:Seven is a popular lucky number.
Trivia Question:What is the most popular two-digit number?Answer:Thirteen is a popular two-digit number.
Trivia Question:How many lives are cats said to have?Answer:Nine.
Trivia Question:How many cupcakes are in a bakers dozen?Answer:Thirteen.
Trivia Question:How do you laugh in Thai text lingo?Answer:555.
Trivia Question:How many different combinations does a Rubix cube have?Answer:43 quintillion combinations are possible.
Trivia Question:What is the perimeter of a circle called?Answer:The circumference.
Trivia Question:What is an angle called if its greater than 90 degrees?Answer:Obtuse.
Trivia Question:What is the top number of a fraction called?Answer:Numerator.
Trivia Question:An improper fraction is always greater than what number?Answer:One.
Trivia Question:Which prime number comes after 3?Answer:Five.
Trivia Question:What is a whole number?Answer:Any number without a decimal point.
Trivia Question:What does a century represent?Answer:100 years.
Trivia Question:What is the basic metric unit of mass?Answer:Kilogram.
Trivia Question:What is the first digit of Pi?Answer:Three.
Trivia Question:What common math term means for every one hundred in Latin?Answer:Percent.
Trivia Question:What may be mixed, complex, or vulgar?Answer:Fractions.
Trivia Question:The most notable achievement in Islamic Mathematics was the development of what?Answer:Algebra.
Trivia Question:What unit of time is 1/1000 of a second?Answer:A jiffy.
Trivia Question:What is 64 divided by 8?Answer:Eight.
Trivia Question:What is five squared?Answer:Twenty-five.
Trivia Question:What is three squared?Answer:Nine.
Trivia Question:What is 16 minus 8?Answer:Eight.
Trivia Question:What is 91 divided by 7?Answer:Thirteen.
Trivia Question:What is five to the power of zeroAnswer:One.
Trivia Question:What is 24 plus 11?Answer:Thirty-five.
Trivia Question:What is the square root of 81?Answer:Nine.
Trivia Question:Which number is greater, a googol, or a quadrillion?Answer:A googol.
Trivia Question:Is negative four a natural number?Answer:No.
Trivia Question:What is bigger, 100, or 10 squared?Answer:Theyre the same!
Trivia Question:Does a convex shape curve inward or outward?Answer:Outward.
Trivia Question:How many equal sides do Icosahedrons have?Answer:Twenty.
Trivia Question:What is a shape with eight sides called?Answer:An octagon.
Trivia Question:How many sides does a dodecahedron have?Answer:Twelve.
Trivia Question:How many sides does a hexagon have?Answer:Six.
Trivia Question:Whats a polygon with four unequal sides called?Answer:Quadrilateral.
Trivia Question:How many sides does an enneadecagon have?Answer:Nineteen.
Trivia Question:What is a polygon with eight sides?Answer:An octagon.
Trivia Question:What is the name for the longest side of a right triangle?Answer:Hypotenuse.
Trivia Question:How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?Answer:Twenty.
Trivia Question:What is the name for a three-sided polygon?Answer:Triangle.
Trivia Question:What number does a giga stand for?Answer:A billion.
Trivia Question:What is the prefix meaning 10?Answer:Deka.
Trivia Question:A composite number has what?Answer:One factor.
Trivia Question:What number is twice the sum of its digits?Answer:Eighteen.
Trivia Question:The lemniscate is the shape of what mathematical symbol?Answer:The infinity symbol.
Trivia Question:What was the number zero originally called?Answer:Cipher.
Trivia Question:What is the study of quantity, structure, space and change?Answer:Mathematics!
Trivia Question:The Fields Medal is the mathematical equivalent to what?Answer:The Nobel Prize.
Trivia Question:Where did Archimedes come from?Answer:Syracuse, Greece.
Trivia Question:When is Pi Day celebrated?Answer:March 14.
Trivia Question:What number is represented in Roman numerals by the letter D?Answer:500.
Trivia Question:Where were the Arabic Numerals invented?Answer:India.
Trivia Question:Whats the first number to contain the letter A?Answer:One thousand.
Trivia Question:What number comes first when arranged alphabetically?Answer:Eight.
Trivia Question:How many digits of pi are there?Answer:Infinity.
Trivia Question:What is the symbol of division called?Answer:Obelus.
Trivia Question:Who invented the equal sign?Answer:Robert Recorde.
Trivia Question:What is the only even prime number?Answer:Two.
Trivia Question:Markings on animal bones indicate humans have been doing math since when?Answer:30,000 BC.
Trivia Question:What did John Napier invent in 1614?Answer:Logarithms 50.
Trivia Question:What is the meaning of crore?Answer:Ten million.
Trivia Question:Jamie reads 14 pages in her 38-page book.
How many pages are left?Answer:Twenty-four pages.
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