History
This month on the 14th is known and celebrated as pi day.
A. January
B. February
C. March
D. April
What is march?
This Greek mathematician is credited with being the first to accurately calculate pi using a geometric method around 250 BC.
A. Pythagoras
B. Hypatia
C. Archimedes
D. Aryabhatta
Who is Archimedes?
By 1665, Isaac Newton calculated pi to this many decimal places.
A. 12
B. 16
C. 24
D. 32
What is 16?
Pi has been used to hide secret messages in the past. In World War II, this alliance used pi to encode messages sent between the US and the UK. They would use the digits of pi to represent letters, numbers, and other characters.
A. Axis
B. Allies
C. Dual Alliance
D. Triple Entente
What is Allies?
The exact value of pi can _______ be calculated, we can ______ find the circumference of a circle.
A. Always
B. Sometimes
C. Never
D. Rarely
What is never?
The first recorded approximation of pi was done by this ancient people around 1650 BC. They estimated the value of pi to be around 3.16.
A. Roman
B. Persian
C. Egyptian
D. Sumerian
What is Egypt?
This man introduced the symbol π in 1706.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. William Jones
C. Archimedes
D. Pythagoras
Who is William Jones?
In the early 1700s Thomas Lagney calculated this many decimal places of pi.
A. 70
B. 107
C. 117
D. 127
What is 127?
This brand sells a men’s cologne with the name ‘Pi’. The company markets this product as capable of enhancing the attractiveness of intelligent and visionary men.
A. Dior
B. Givenchy
C. Chanel
D. Gucci
What is Givenchy?
William Jones was a good friend of this famous physicist.
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Michael Faraday
D. Henry Cavendish
This ancient people also had a similar approximation of pi, as did the ancient Greeks.
A. Babylonian
B. Persian
C. Macedonian
D. Olmec
What is Babylonian?
The symbol π was popularized by this man.
A. William Jones
B. Alan Turing
C. Albert Einstein
D. Leonhard Euler
Who is Leonhard Euler?
A record was broken again in this year when a Swiss scientist computed more than 22 trillion digits of pi. The calculation took over a hundred days.
A. 2010
B. 2015
C. 2017
D. 2019
What is 2017?
In this famous trial, the defense attorney and FBI agent’s argument revolved around the value of pi. The FBI agent’s findings in the case weren’t accurate because he used pi inaccurately.
A. Jeffery Dahmer
B. Charles Manson
C. Ted Bundy
D. O.J. Simpson
Who is O.J. Simpson?
Some believe that this (which amounts to 2π) is a better suited to circle calculations. It represents the angle of a quarter of a circle.
A. Omega
B. Tau
C. Phi - Golden Ratio
D. Silver Ratio
What is Tau?
This ancient marvel was built using the formula for pi.
A. Hanging Gardens
B. Pyramids of Giza
C. Colosseum
D. Temple of Artemis
What are the Pyramids of Giza?
The record for reciting the most number of decimal places of Pi was achieved by this man at VIT University in 2015. He was able to recite 70,000 decimal places. To maintain the sanctity of the record, he wore a blindfold throughout the duration of his recall, which took an astonishing 10 hours
A. Raj Chandra Bose
B. D.R. Kaprekar
C. Ganesh Prasad
D. Rajveer Meena
Who is Rajveer Meena?
In this year, Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee, broke the world record for the most accurate calculation of pi by computing it to 31.4 trillion decimal places using Google Cloud technology.
A. 2017
B. 2019
C. 2021
D. 2023
What is 2019?
In ancient times, mathematicians used a unique method to calculate pi. They would add more and more sides to a polygon so that its area approached the area of a circle. Archimedes used a polygon with this many sides.
A. 67
B. 77
C. 86
D. 96
What is 96?
The calculation of pi is a this kind of test for a computer. It works just like a digital cardiogram since it indicates the level of activity within the computer’s processor.
A. Stress Test
B. Operations Test
C. Computer Competency Test
D. Software Test
What is a stress test?
This place is where the Prince of Pi started celebrating Pi day in San Francisco.
A. Museum of Modern Art
B. Legion of Honor
C. Exploratorium Science Museum
D. California Academy of Sciences
What is the Exploratorium Science Museum?
This physicist is known as the Prince of Pi
A. Larry Shaw
B. Albert Einstein
C. Niels Bohr
D. Isaac Newton
Who is Larry Shaw?
William Shanks, a British mathematician, worked manually to find the digits of pi in this year. He spent many years trying to calculate the pi digits by hand and found the first 707 digits. Unfortunately, the 527th digit he found was wrong, which made all the following digits wrong as well
A. 1803
B. 1853
C. 1873
D. 1883
D.
What is 1873?
This famous scientist was born on pi day in 1879
A. Michael Faraday
B. Marie Curie
C. Albert Einstein
D. Steven Hawking
Who is Albert Einstein?
The pi symbol was chosen because it is the first letter of the Greek word for this.
A. Position
B. Parietal
C. Pinnacle
D. Perimeter
What is perimeter?