Mathematicians Jeopardy Template

Famous stories

Who is known for it?

Who discovered the value of it?

Female Mathematicians

"Father of"

100

An apple fell on his head, which led him to discovering gravity.

a. Pythagorus

b. Isaac Newton

c. Tycho Brahe

d. George Dantzing

e. Carl Gauss

b. Isaac Newton

100

This sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987...

a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b. Hipparchus

c. Martin Gardner

d. Fibonacci

e. Alan Turing

f. Issac Newton

d. Fibonacci

100

pi (π)

a. Archimedes

b. Michael Mästlin

c. Aryabhata

d. Euler

e. William Rowan Hamilton

a. Archimedes

100

She is regarded as the first computer programmer.

a. Emmy Noether

b. Hypatia

c. Dorothy Vaughn

d. Sophie Germain

e. Ada Lovelace

100

"Father of Computer Science"

a. Pythagorus

b. Archimedes

c. Alan Turing

d. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

e. Euclid

f. Diophantus

c. Alan Turing

200

This mathematician was afraid of beans, believing they were an omen of death.

a. Pythagorus

b. Isaac Newton

c. Tycho Brahe

d. George Dantzing

e. Carl Gauss

a. Pythagorus

200

Inventing calculus

a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b. Hipparchus

c. Martin Gardner

d. Fibonacci

e. Alan Turing

f. Issac Newton

a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

f. Isaac Newton

200

zero (0)

a. Archimedes

b. Michael Mästlin

c. Aryabhata

d. Euler

e. William Rowan Hamilton

c. Aryabhata

200

She is a main character in the hit film Hidden Figures and was the first African American female supervisor at NASA.

a. Emmy Noether

b. Hypatia

c. Dorothy Vaughn

d. Sophie Germain

e. Ada Lovelace

c. Dorothy Vaughn

200

"Father of Mathematics"

a. Pythagorus

b. Archimedes

c. Alan Turing

d. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

e. Euclid

f. Diophantus

b. Archimedes

300

As punishment for being rowdy and to keep him busy, he was told to add up all the integers between 1 and 100. He almost immediately produced an answer, which was 5,050.

a. Pythagorus

b. Isaac Newton

c. Tycho Brahe

d. George Dantzing

e. Carl Gauss

300

Decrypting the German Enigma machine during WWII

a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b. Hipparchus

c. Martin Gardner

d. Fibonacci

e. Alan Turing

f. Issac Newton

e. Alan Turing

300

i (imaginary numbers) (or at least one of the people)

a. Archimedes

b. Michael Mästlin

c. Aryabhata

d. Euler

e. William Rowan Hamilton

300

Albert Einstein dubbed her as “the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”

a. Emmy Noether

b. Hypatia

c. Dorothy Vaughn

d. Sophie Germain

e. Ada Lovelace

a. Emmy Noether

300

"Father of Numbers"

a. Pythagorus

b. Archimedes

c. Alan Turing

d. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

e. Euclid

f. Diophantus

a. Pythagorus

400

This mathematician arrived to his statistics class late, where the professor had written two unsolved problems on the board; he mistook them for homework and solved both.

a. Pythagorus

b. Isaac Newton

c. Tycho Brahe

d. George Dantzing

e. Carl Gauss

d. George Dantzing

400

Inventing Geometry

a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b. Hipparchus

c. Martin Gardner

d. Fibonacci

e. Alan Turing

f. Issac Newton

b. Hipparchus

400

e (approximately 2.718)

a. Archimedes

b. Michael Mästlin

c. Aryabhata

d. Euler

e. William Rowan Hamilton

d. Euler

400

She is the first woman honored by the Paris Academy of Sciences.

a. Emmy Noether

b. Hypatia

c. Dorothy Vaughn

d. Sophie Germain

e. Ada Lovelace

d. Sophie Germain

400

"Father of Geometry"

a. Pythagorus

b. Archimedes

c. Alan Turing

d. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

e. Euclid

f. Diophantus

e. Euclid

500

This astronomer lost part of his nose in a sword duel with a fellow Danish nobleman and replaced it with what he thought was gold (it was actually just brass).

a. Pythagorus

b. Isaac Newton

c. Tycho Brahe

d. George Dantzing

e. Carl Gauss

c. Tycho Brahe

500

Creating the field of recreational mathematics, ie. hexaflexagons

a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b. Hipparchus

c. Martin Gardner

d. Fibonacci

e. Alan Turing

f. Issac Newton

c. Martin Gardner

500

phi ()

a. Archimedes

b. Michael Mästlin

c. Aryabhata

d. Euler

e. William Rowan Hamilton

b. Michael Mästlin

500

She is considered the greatest mathematician and astronomer of her time.

a. Emmy Noether

b. Hypatia

c. Dorothy Vaughn

d. Sophie Germain

e. Ada Lovelace

b. Hypatia

500

"Father of Algebra"

a. Pythagorus

b. Archimedes

c. Alan Turing

d. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

e. Euclid

f. Diophantus

d. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

f. Diophantus