Home Court Advantage
EF 1
Riddles
EF 2
Untold Math History
100
Although most people would probably associate this city with Beyonce instead, it is also home to another royal: a statue known as the Cactus King.
Houston, TX
100
Containing no mistakes, faultless
Error Free
100
87
100
The cost you have to pay to join a society, club, gym, etc
Entry Fee
100
This Graph Theory pioneer and developer of the famous Konigsberg Bridge problem was able to make many of his most significant contributions after becoming fully blind due to access to extensive disability support systems.
Leonhard Euler
200
This city’s name comes from Algonquin words, meaning “wild garlic” or “onion field” because of the plants by its now backwards flowing river.
Chicago, IL
200
In folklore and fantasy, the term for a wooded area under or containing spells and magic
Enchanted Forest
200
A duck was given $9, a spider was given $36, a bee was given $27. How much would be given to a cat?
$18
200
Designed in a way that does not harm the climate
Environmentally Friendly
200
This American sociologist, historian, and Pan-African civil rights activist is often attributed with the following quote, “When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.”
WEB DuBois
300
Home to activist Cornel West and recreational mathematician, Martin Gardner, this city has the largest collection of art deco architecture in America.
Tulsa, OK
300
In math, describing an equation whose value is a constant raised to the power of the argument
Exponential Function
300
6713
300
American Jazz singer, sometimes referred to as “The First Lady of Song,” or “Queen of Jazz"
Ella Fitzgerald
300
The field of hyperbolic geometry owes itself largely to women entering the math field who used this art form to dramatically advance understanding of the subject.
Crochet
400
Although it was originally housed in a different city, in 2015, the first Taco Bell building was uprooted and driven to this city, where it has stayed locked and empty ever since.
Irvine, CA
400
Slang used in the 2010s to describe a notable, obvious, and usually public mistake
Epic Fail
400
What is the sum of the numbers on the 137th row?
(137)^3 = 2571353
400
A region surrounding a charged particle or object, within which a force would be exerted on other charged particles objects
Electric Field
(for game purposes, also accept: Electromagnetic field)
400
This Nigerian writer often makes allusions to math, including characters based on her mathematician father who studied with game theory pioneer David Blackwell, the first African American member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
500
This city is home to a highway monument depicting a sack of potatoes with an engraving that reads “potato” “potatoes” “potato” several times.
Boston, MA
500
An international education company that specializes in language training, educational travel, academic degree programs, and cultural exchange
Education First
500
It takes 1629 digits to number the pages of a book. How many pages does the book have?
579 Pages
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Pages [1, 9] = 9 * (1 digit) = 9 digits
Pages [10, 99] = 90 * (2 digits) = 180 digits
1629 - 189 = 1440 digits left. All that's left are 3-digit numbers so:
1440/3 = 480 pages. So there were a total of 9 + 90 + 480 = 579 pages
500
In the medical field, a measurement, expressed as a percentage, of how much blood the left ventricle pumps out with each contraction
Ejection Fraction
500
Bob Moses’ The Algebra Project was created “in the spirit of” this Civil Rights activist with the goal of borrowing from her practices in community organizing.
Ella Baker