Math Trivial
This greek mathematician who lived circa 300 BC is often credited with making the first axiomatic math system
Who is Euclid?
What is d/dx(e6+3)
0
The speed of light (to 3 places, assumed in m/s)
What is 2.99*108 m/s
Alexander Hamiton’s death and the musical Hamilton premiering on Broadway?
210 years (July 1804 and Feb 2015)
The number of stomach chambers a cow has
What are 4 chambers?
Out of the following functions, which one grows the fastest approaching infinity, x5, ex, x!, ln(x)
x!
In Set the Table with 4 players, each player plays either fork or spoon simultaneously. The players win if there are exactly 2 forks and 2 spoons. Assuming every player picks randomly, what are the odds the players win?
⅜ or 0.375
The ratio between the frequencies of the pitches in a perfect fifth
What is 3:2 (or 2:3)
Columbus’s first arrival in the Americas and the fall of the Technochtitlan (capital of the Aztec Empire)?
28 years (Oct 1492 and Aug 1521)
The number of eyes a black widow spider has
What are 8 eyes?
The conjecture that posits every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers
What is the Goldberg conjecture?
I am a 3 digit number. The product of my first 2 digits is 2 more than the product of my last 2 digits and my first and last digit add to 11. What number am I?
625
The charge of a top quark (if the charge of an electron is -1)
What is +⅔
Martin Luther posting the 95 theses and King Henry VIII breaking from the catholic church?
17 years (Oct 1517 and Nov 1534)
The number of hearts an earthworm has
What are 5 hearts?
The number of three crossing knots there are (A knot is a closed loop of string, a three crossing knot is a knot where the string crosses itself 3 times that can not be untangled further.)
What is 1, the trifold knot?
Which of the following knots can be untangled into the unknot (a simple loop of string)
c
The atomic number of the lightest radioactive element?
What is 43, the atomic number of technetium
The invention of the Aeolopile and the invention of the commercial steam engine?
~1732 years (~20 BC and 1712)
The number of bones in an adult human
What are 206 bones?
The most number of colors needed to color any map so that no two countries that share a border are the same color (diagonals don’t count as sharing a border)
What is 4 colors?
If N is a 3-digit integer, and given that the result of reversing the digits of N is the number M, what is the maximum value of N-M?
[Note: Integers written with 1 or more leading zeros can also be written with every leading zero removed.]
891
The index value that represents no change in value over time
What is 100
The establishment of the Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca), and King Mansa Musa’s Hajj?
692 years (632 and 1324)
The number of brains an octopus has
What are 9 brains?