Marvelous Mathematics
A pizza is divided into eight slices. There are 50 people coming to a party. How many pizzas need to be ordered to feed everybody?
What is 6 pizzas?
This mountain, named for the explorer who discovered it, was sighted more than two hundred miles away from its base.
What is Pike's Peak?
This creature isn't so little, but is the largest living creature on the planet!
What is a blue whale?
This Greek hero of famed strength was named in a vain attempt to placate the goddess Hera
What is Heracles?
One to have and one to hold.
To grant me was the right of kings.
Of the nine-seven-three and the one the Elves sing.
What is a ring?
A meteor is falling to the earth at a rate of 25 miles a minute. A superhero is racing to catch it at 40 miles a minute. The meteor is currently 200 miles away from the ground, and the superhero is 160 miles away from the meteor. Will they get there in time?
Yes, because the superhero will reach the meteor in 4 minutes, and the meteor will not reach the ground for 8 minutes.
This northern Colorado town was named for a famous newspaper editor and abolitionist.
What is Greeley?
This family of insects is the largest in the world, with thousands of distinct species within it.
What is beetles?
This famous Chinese troublemaking monkey became the basis for many famous modern characters in eastern media, and is known in Japan as Son Goku
Rolling fields of verdant green
On emerald isle above the sea.
A most common trinity.
In mutation, fortune's boon.
Born in spring
Goon too soon
What is a Clover?
Light leaves the sun traveling at one billion two hundred million miles a minute. The earth is nine billion six hundred million miles from the sun. How long will it take light from the sun to reach earth?
Eight minutes.
This stretch of land by the mountains is home to the majority of Colorado's population, and is run through by interstate 25.
What is the Front Range?
What is a Platypus?
This norse mythological figure was blessed with immunity to all harm, save for mistletoe.
Who is Baldur?
The New Moon's Filly
Who rides behind the blind eyes
Turning rest into restlessness
Dreams into Terror
What is Nightmare?
Sarah has four chickens, each of whom lay an egg every day. If a chicken hatches from every egg and grows up to start laying their own eggs in 20 days, how long will it be until she has more than a hundred chickens?
100 Days.
This place in Colorado, while visited by millions of people every year, is also the home to many conspiracy theories about secret tunnels and hidden alien bases.
What is Denver International Airport?
This now extinct family of reptiles previously held the distinction of being the largest animals on the planet, and is still the largest land animal ever discovered.
What are Sauropods?
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
Winding lines of Silver-White
Drawn by Jack in dead of night.
The spiral vines of faerie-play
Shall vanish in the light of day.
What is Frost?
A blacksmith can make three swords every hour. His three sons can each make a sword every three hours. The king has given them an order for 100 swords. How many hours will it take them to make all 100?
What is 25 hours?
This sandstone rock formation located off of Highway 34 is a popular tourist destination and place for day trips, despite its diabolical name.
What is the Devil's Backbone?
This peculiar African bird preys on serpents, killing them with power kicks and stomps, and lives in mated pairs that stick together for life.
What is a secretary bird?
This philistine deity of storms and good harvests appears regularly in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament as a villainous figure.
Who is Baal?
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt.
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills.
The empty holes and voids it fills.
It comes first and follows after.
Swallows faces, kills laughter.
What is Darkness?