Definitions & Formulas
Pi
What is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter of the circle?
Theoretical physicist whose birthday is on the same date as Pi Day
Who is Albert Einstein? (born March 14, 1879)
This is why you should never start talking to Pi at a party
What is because it just goes on and on forever...
If the diameter of a circle is 4, this is the radius
What is 2?
This is Oregon's official state pie
What is marionberry pie?
A number that can not be accurately written as a simple ratio and whose decimals go on forever
What is an irrational number?
The person credited with first calculating pi, around 250 BC
Who is Archimedes of Syracuse? (He calculated the first 3 digits)
What you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter
What is pumpkin pi(e)?
Rounded to two decimal places, the circumference of a circle if the diameter is 1
What is 3.14?
"I prefer pi" is this type of phrase
What is a palindrome
The formula for the circumference of a circle
What is C = 2*(pi)*radius? Or C = (pi)*diameter
First is Alpha. Second is Beta. Third is Gamma. Pi comes at this point in the Greek alphabet
What is 16th?
What you get when you divide the circumference of the sun by its diameter
What is Pi in the sky?
The number of digits in Pi that represent whole numbers
What is one? (The 3 in 3.14...)
On The Simpsons, the type of pie that lures Homer into a trap
What is floor pie?
This is the formula for the area of a circle
What is A = (pi) * r2?
In 1706, Welsh mathetmatician William Jones was the first person to do this
What is use the Greek letter pi as a symbol for the ratio of the Circumference to the diameter? (though Leonhard Euler is the one who popularized its use)
This is why Pi failed their driver's test
What is because they didn't know when to stop
For a circle with a radius of 10, the area of that circle, rounded to the nearest whole number
What is 314?
Another date to celebrate Pi Day--this would be the 314th day of the year
What is November 10? (or November 9 in leap years)
The surface area of a sphere with radius r
What is 4 π r2 ?
The year or the person who first celebrated Pi Day
What is 1988? (or Who is Larry Shaw?)
What you get when a bunch of sheep stand around in a circle
What is shepherd's pie?
The circumference of a circle with diameter of pi
What is pi squared? (Or 9.86960440109 ....)
Famous TV character who once used Pi to destroy a disembodied evil alien consciousness taking over a computer
Who is Spock? (in the episode "Wolf in the Fold")