Name the famous person who has their birthday on pi day in 1879.
Who is Albert Einstein
100
What character of Star Trek destroys an evil computer by ordering it to "compute to the last digit of the value of pi?"
Who is Spock.
100
Name pi to 15 digits.
What is 3.14159265358979
100
If you were to print 1 billion decimal values of pi in ordinary font it would stretch from New York City to where?
What is Kansas.
100
What famous pyramid seems to approximate the value of pi?
What is the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.
200
Who made it popular to use the greek letter "pi"?
Who is William Jones.
200
What famous trial against a football player was their an argument between the lawyers about the value of pi?
What is the OJ Simpson trial.
200
What is the official time of the celebration of pi day?
What is March 14th at 1:59pm.
200
The Bible talks about pi. What is the phrase from 1 Kings 7:23?
What is "And he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim...and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
200
What famous artist used pi in their drawing of a man to show proportional relationships?
Who was Leonardo da Vinci.
300
What group of people first discovered the number pi?
Who are the Babylonians.
300
Name the current movie that has pi in the title.
What is Life of Pi.
300
The number pi is called what kind of a number because it goes on forever and does not repeat?
What is irrational.
300
Name 3 measurement formulas that use pi.
What is area of a circle, circumference of a circle, volume of a sphere, cylinder, cone, and surface area of a sphere, cylinder, and cone.
300
About how many years ago did humans start studying pi?
What is about 4000 years ago.
400
Who set a world record when they memorized the first 67,890 digits of pi?
Who is Chao Lu.
400
What book by Carl Sagan do humans study pi to gain awareness about the universe?
What is Contact.
400
What is a fraction that is a good estimate of pi?
What is 22/7.
400
Pi has been calculated by a computer to about how many digits?
What is over 12 trillion.
400
What letter is pi in the greek alphabet?
What is the 16th, the same as p in the English alphabet.
500
What group of people had the first written record of the number pi?
Who are the Egyptians.
500
Pi is the secret code in what Alfred Hitchcock's movie?
What is "Torn Curtain."
500
The symbol pi represents a constant ratio. What is the ratio of?
What is the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
500
If you add up the first 144 digits of pi, what is the sum?
What is 666.
500
Pi was first rigorously calculated by this person around 200 BC. He was so engrossed in his work that he did not notice that Roman soldiers had taken the Greek city of Syracuse. When a Roman soldier approached him, he yelled, "Do not touch my circles!"