Mathematical Matters
A tennis ball is an example of this circular shape.
What is a sphere?
This traditional Greek pie, made with layers of phyllo dough and filled with spinach and feta is a popular dish in Greek cuisine.
What is spanakopita?
This flavor of pie is part of the classic expression, "as American as "______."
What is apple pie?
This song by Don McLean, released in 1971, is a tribute to the late Buddy Holly and contains the famous line "drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry."
What is American Pie?
This letter represents the beginning and is often used to denote something of primary importance.
What is alpha?
This is the formula for the circumference of a circle.
What is 2πr?
This famous German mathematician's birthday happens to fall on Pi Day.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This gourdgeous flavor of pie is typically associated with Thanksgiving.
What is pumpkin pie?
In this popular book which later became a hit film, a young boy and a tiger share a lifeboat.
What is Life of Pi?
This highly infectious COVID-19 variant was identified in late 2021.
What is the omicron variant?
The first seven numbers of pi.
What is 3.141592?
These hand-held savory "pies" are popular across South America.
What are empanadas?
This pie filling is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and often beef suet.
What is mincemeat?
You may have heard this expression meaning dumped, ditched, or abandoned, on the reality TV competition Love Island UK.
What is pied off?
The number of letters in the Greek Alphabet.
According to many mathematicians, this shape has infinite corners.
What is a circle?
The first known calculation of the area of a circle occurred circa 2000 CE in this ancient society, located in present-day Iraq.
What is Babylonia?
This Thanksgiving pie became very popular in the Southern US due to the main ingredient's disposition for growing in warmer climates.
What is sweet potato pie?
In this play, Shakespeare's first tragedy, the titular character bakes his enemy Queen Tamora's sons into a pie and serves it to her.
What is Titus Andronicus?
In the film Legally Blonde, Elle Woods is the president of this sorority.
What is Delta Nu?
This formula for volume might be useful at an ice cream parlor or for a traffic guard.
What is V=13πr2h?
75% of the population of this island nation eats at least one pie a month.
What is the United Kingdom?
This depression-era treat was primarily made up of a substance that covers 71% of our planet.
What is water pie?
In the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." four and twenty of these creatures are baked into a pie.
What are blackbirds?
These forms of radiation have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are gamma rays?