Pi(e)
Use and History
So you think you can do math...
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Bonus Round
100
This type of pie is often related to Thanksgiving
What is pumpkin
100
The first group to attempt to calculate and use the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter
Who were the Babylonians?
100
f'(e^(6π^4 ))
What is 0
100
Placed in surprise pies for wealthy englishmen in the past
What are 5 somehow alive blackbirds that were stuffed unceremoniously into a pie crust and somehow still alive (I'd really like to know just how big these pies were)
100
40 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit
what is exactly negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit
200
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What is pineapple?
200
This person gave pi its current numerical value
What is Julius Caesar
200
If I have a pie, and you have a pie And she has a couple pies too And all of our pies are eaten by flies Then what’s a tan pie over two?
What is undefined?
200
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Who was Archimedes?
200
The number that can be found in the back of the US five dollar bill, at the base of the lincoln memorial, hidden in the bushes.
What is 172. Someone pull out a five dollar bill right now I really want to verify this but I was too lazy to get out my wallet.
300
Most popular desert pie in America
What is Apple pie
300
The area of a quadrilateral made up of four quarter circle arcs, each of radius 6in. (diagrama disponibles bajo petición)
What is 31 in^2?
300
The pie flavor of choice of the current British monarch.
What is Chocolate Perfection?
300
Among the digits of pi currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?
What is zero. wow poor zero late bloomer
300
By September 1985 "A.M. Chicago" had been expanded to an hour & became this show.
What is the Oprah Winfrey show
400
Two radii of a circle with radius 14cm form a 150º angle. Calculate the area of the segment formed by a chord stretching from the end point of one radii to the endpoint of the other. Round answer to the nearest square centimeter.
208 cm^2
400
Pi is a ratio of
What is circumference to diameter
400
Before the equation for the area of a circle was found, people tried to
What is 'square the circle' (trying to make squares that had the same area as a circle and then getting Morbus Cyclometricus because that's kind of dumb)
400
McDonald's apple pie is actually this
What is apple turnover
400
In January 1999 this author issued a public statement reminding the world the third millennium really begins Jan. 1, 2001
What is Arthur C. Clarke (does it really?)
500
The world record for pi digit memorization
What is 42000 places, by Hiroyuki Goto. Because. you know. what else would you do in your free time??
500
The entomology of the word pie
What is the magpie bird
500
A tripartite scrutiny used to ascertain the veracity of an assertion
What is the PIE test?
500
'Pi' is the first letter of these greek words
What is periphery and perimeter
500
Swahili word for circle
What is mduara
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