A famous theorem that postulates that the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equivalent to the square root of the sum of the squares of the triangle's legs.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
100
Favorite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
What is Pizza
100
The force of acceleration that draws objects towards an objects center of mass, resulting from the alterations a body of mass propagates upon the plane of space. (Hint: the story of the discovery involves a falling apple)
What is gravity?
100
This word, meaning an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something, is used to 'blow the minds' of juniors in a certain fourth block IB Global Studies class. This intriguing phenomena was instigated by the junior class president, Mike Brown.
What is DUALITY
200
Largest state
What is Alaska
200
This basic method of checking for primes, derived by an ancient Greek mathematician, allows one to ascertain whether or not a number is prime. (Hint: it is a sieve)
What is the Sieve of Eratosthenes?
200
Name of Richard Castle's daughter in the TV show Castle
What is Alexis Castle
200
This element was named after Einstein.
What is Einsteinium?
200
On Tuesday, this business-related club at BHS had a field trip.
What is DECA?
300
Name 10 out of the 13 colonies
What is Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
300
This formula allows one to find the roots of a quadratic function. It goes as follows:
For ax^2 + bx + c = 0, the value of x is given by: x = [ -b ± sqrt(b^2 - 4ac) ] / 2a
What is the quadratic formula?
300
The first and middle names of Harry Potter's three children
What is James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna
300
This experiment resulted in the conclusion that atoms are made up of mostly empty space.
What is the Geiger–Marsden experiment (also called the Rutherford gold foil experiment)?
300
This Buddhist math teacher used to teach at BHS, two years ago. No one has heard from him since, however, rumors indicate that he has achieved spiritual enlightenment.
Who is Dale Hollocher (DHolls)?
400
The Sioux State
What is North Dakota
400
This famous theorem, published in the 3rd century by Sun Tzu, determines a number n that when divided by some given divisors leaves given remainders.
What is the Chinese Remainder Theorem?
400
Nick's first Avatar in R.I.P.D
What is Grandpa Chen
400
This term means the contraction of the left ventricle.
What is systole?
400
This language is the hardest language in BHS, and arguably, the world.
What is Chinese :(
500
Name of the 39th President of the United States of America
What is James "Jimmy" Carter
500
This conjecture, yet to be proved, goes as follows: For every ε > 0, there are only finitely many triples of coprime positive integers a + b = c such that c > d^(1+ε), where d denotes the product of the distinct prime factors of abc.
What is the ABC Conjecture?
500
Popular children's show debuted on PBS in 1969
What is Sesame Street
500
This paradoxical thought experiment points out the issue with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics; it involves a cat that is both dead and alive (or neither?)
What is Schrödinger's Cat?
500
This is the order of the coloring on the floors (from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor).