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Pie!
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*image 1 This is the type of bond shown on the right-hand side of the arrow.
What is a pi or covalent bond?
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A circle with area 49*pi has this number for a radius
What is a radius of 7?
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The value of pi plugged into the sine function, i.e. sin(pi), equates to this numerical value
What is 0?
100
This woman, referred to as a "computer in a skirt" was awarded the National Medal of Freedom for the 2015 year and was one of the few African Americans that worked in the "predecessor of NASA" performing calculations for the trajectory of the first American to arrive in space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
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This type of pie, sometimes pronounced a "cheese pie", was very important to colonial America and is considered by some as Virginia's unofficial dessert. Characteristic of Southern cuisine, this pie's main ingredients are eggs, sugar, butter, and lemon juice.
What is a chess pie?
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Molecular Oxygen (O2) has this number of pi bonds
What is 1?
200
40*pi is the circumference of a circle with this radius
What is a radius of 20?
200
The value of pi plugged into the cosine function, i.e. cos(pi), equates to this numerical value
What is -1?
200
On February 5th this year, she became the first African American ever to be awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the natural sciences at William and Mary.
Who is Professor/Dr. Shanta D. Hinton?
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In a 2011 study, approximately 47% of Americans considered this type of pie to be their favorite.
What is apple pie?
300
This type of electron resides in a pi bond.
What is a pi electron?
300
*Image 4 This is the formula for the volume of this geometric shape
What is (1/3)pi*r^2*h
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This great mathematician of the ancient world is known for computing the first calculation of pi, estimating a number between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71.
Who is Archimedes of Syracuse?
300
Denied entry into aviation schools because she was not white, this woman of Native American and African American descent became the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
300
*Image 6 This dessert is a close relative of pie, but tends to have a thicker top crust and no bottom crust.
What is (peach) cobbler?
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*image 2 In the formula shown, what does "v" calculate?
What is wave speed?
400
*image 5 This is the formula for the volume of this geometric shape.
What is pi*r^2*h?
400
Pi/2 is undefined when plugged into this trigonometric function
What is tangent or cosecant?
400
This person is a biology professor at the College of William and Mary. She specializes in molecular genetics and developmental biology and heads the Phage Lab sponsored by HHMI.
Who is Dr. Saha?
400
*Image 7 Indigenous to Pittsburg, this pie is the official treat of Maine and often referred to as a BFO: Big, Fat Oreo
What is a Whoopie Pie?
500
*image 3 In the physics equation for the magnetic field of a straight wire, this variable represents the current in the wire.
What is "I"?
500
This geometric shape has the volume formula (4/3)pi*r^3
What is a sphere?
500
3*(pi/4) radians equals this number when converted into degrees.
What is 135 degrees?
500
This woman is a mathematics professor at Stanford who became the first woman to win the Fields Medal in 2014. She won this medal, often regarded the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," for her groundbreaking work in dynamics and the geometry of Riemann surfaces.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
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In 2006, Florida adopted this type of pie as its official state pie.
What is Key Lime Pie?
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