History
While research shows Romans to originate sweet pies, this ancient culture is credited with meat pies.
Who are the Greeks?
Pi is most commonly defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its what.
What is the diameter.
Pie can easily be broken into 4 main categories, fruit, meat, cream and this.
What is custard?
This famous scientist was born on pi day in 1879.
Who is Albert Einstein?
In this popular Stephen Sondheim musical a barber and his inn keeper accomplice serve human meat pies to unsuspecting customers.
What is Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
In what year did pi day become a national event?
What is 2009?
The US House of Representatives created it with the passing of resolution 224 to help encourage pi education.
Rajveer Meena holds the Guinness world record for reciting digits of pi. How many decimal places did he have memorized?
A.) 31,415
B.) 52,400
C.) 70,000
D.) 81,000
What is 70,000?
Meena set the record of 70,000 on March 21, 2015.
Which of the following delicious fats is thought to maximize a pie crust's flakiness?
A. Leaf lard
B. Duck fat
C. Beef tallow
D. Butter
E. Vegetable shortening
What is D. Butter
It's believed that that this ancient wonder of the world was built on the principles of pi.
What are the pyramids?
The catch phrase "No soggy bottoms!" references pie and comes from this hit TV show.
What is The Great British Bake Of or The Great British Baking Show.
This ancient civilization is the first on record to have calculated pi.
Who are the Babylonians.
Pi is also known as this. Named after an ancient Greek mathematician.
What is Archimedes' Constant?
Suet, the fat from the kidney and loins of cattle, sheep and other ruminants, is a primary ingredient in this traditional pie.
What is mincemeat pie?
Literary nerds invented a dialect known as this, in which the numbers of letters in successive words match the digits of pi.
What is Pilish?
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!
This 1971 song by Don McLean was really about a plane crash.
What is American Pie?
English tradition credits the first cherry pie to which British monarch?
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
There are no 0s in the first how many digits of pi?
A) 22
B) 31
C) 43
D) 50
B) 31
Victorian era street food pies were most popular with this filling.
What is eel?
Pi is the secret code in this movie starring Sandra Bullock.
What is The Net.
The earliest mention of pie occurs in Robert Green's Arcadia in what year?
A.)1458
B.)1590
C.)1605
D.)1679
What is B.)1590
“Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.”
Mathematicians began using the greek letter π for pi in this century.
What is the 18th century?
(1700s)
The longest sequence of repeating single digits in pi is known as Feynman's point and contains this many 9s.
What is 6?
Pies were not originally made with crust or this as it was originally called.
What is coffyn?
In the original Star Trek Spock is able to foil an evil computer by telling it to do this.
What is calculate the last digit of pi.
The world's largest pumpkin pie was made in New Breman, OH weighing 3,699 pounds with a diameter of this?
What is 20 feet?