Math Team Jeopardy

Combinatorics

100

Amma wants to arrange her model cars in rows with exactly 6 cars in each row. She now has 23 model cars. What is the smallest number of additional cars she must buy in order to be able to arrange all her cars this way?

1

200

Lance, Sally, Joy, and Fred are chosen for the team. In how many ways can the three starters be chosen?

4

300

A singles tournament had six players. Each player played every other player only once, with no ties. If Helen won 4 games, Ines won 3 games, Janet won 2 games, Kendra won 2 games and Lara won 2 games, how many games did Monica win?

2

400

Bridget, Cassie, and Hannah are discussing the results of their last math test. Hannah shows Bridget and Cassie her test, but Bridget and Cassie don't show theirs to anyone. Cassie says, 'I didn't get the lowest score in our class,' and Bridget adds, 'I didn't get the highest score.' What is the ranking of the three girls from highest to lowest?

Cassie, Hannah, Bridget

500

A set of tiles numbered 1 through 100 is modified repeatedly by the following operation: remove all tiles numbered with a perfect square, and renumber the remaining tiles consecutively starting with 1. How many times must the operation be performed to reduce the number of tiles in the set to one?

18

Man These Questions are Hard!

100

What musical term indicates a chord where the notes are played one after another rather than all together?

Arpeggio

200

Where in the human body would you find the medulla oblongata?

The Brain

300

What is the legislature of the Netherlands called?

The States General

400

 In which sport are barani, rudolph and randolph all techniques?

Trampolining

500

Yellow + Blue =

Green (Smiley Face)

Wacky Bonus Questions

100

Who collaborated with Karl Marx to produce “The Communist Manifesto”?

Friedrich Engels

200

 What is the capital city of Paraguay?

Asuncion

300

The Cassegranian, Schmidt and Gregorian are all types of what scientific instrument?

Telescopes

400

Sharks have keen olfactory senses and some species are able to detect as little as one part per million of what in seawater?

Blood

500

Which African country used to be called Abyssinia?

Ethiopia

Math But Not

100

Which gas is formed when a hydrogen bomb is detonated?

Helium

200

How many legs does a lobster have?

10

300

What species of shark is the smallest with a length of less than 7 inches?

Dwarf Lantern Shark

400

Mackerel shark teeth fossils date back to what period?

Early Cretaceous. 

500

The giant shark C. megalodon may have reached a total length of more than how long?

67 ft

Probability

100

A fair coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of at least two consecutive heads?

3/8

200

A board game spinner is divided into three regions labeled A, B and C. The probability of the arrow stopping on region A is 1/3 and on region B is 1/2. The probability of the arrow stopping on region C is ?

1/6

300

Harold tosses a nickel four times. The probability that he gets at least as many heads as tails is?

11/16

400

Two fair coins are to be tossed once. For each head that results, one fair die is to be rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the die rolls is odd? (Note that if no die is rolled, the sum is 0.)

3/8

500

Six distinct positive integers are randomly chosen between 1 and 2006, inclusive. What is the probability that some pair of these integers has a difference that is a multiple of 5?

1