Maths Trivia
A quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides, no equal sides, or equal angles.
What is a trapezium?
Animals that eat both plants and meat.
What are omnivores?
The sum of whole numbers from 1 to 100.
What is 5050?
The national sport of Australia.
What is cricket?
The colour of Ms Quek's earrings
What is black?
The value of a googol.
What is 10100? (1 followed by 100 zeros)
The fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
The name of this chemical process: carbon dioxide + water -> glucose + water
What is photosynthesis?
The name of this symbol ~.
What is tilde?
Is Ms Quek either a morning person or night person?
Night person
2024 in Roman numerals.
What is MMXXIV?
The largest internal organ in the human body by weight.
What is the liver?
One of the three main rock types that is known as a "fire-born".
What are igneous rocks?
The only fruit with seeds on the outside.
What is a strawberry?
The mobile game Ms Quek plays.
What is Honkai: Star Rail?
Metres are a measure of distance. Seconds are a measure of time.
The variable that a light year measures.
What is a measure of distance?
The chemical symbol for silver.
What is Ag?
In the late 18th century, a decimal clock was proposed, in which there were 100 'minutes' in one 'hour' and 10 'hours' in one day.
Assuming that such a clock started from 0:00 at midnight, what time would it show when an ordinary clock showed 6am?
2.5 "hours" = 2 "hours" and 50 "minutes"
The year Roblox was released.
When was 2006?
The age of Ms Quek's daughter in years.
Who is 1 years old?
A Cartesian coordinate system describes two distances, this coordinate system dscribes a distance and an angle.
What is the polar coordinate system?
The part of the human body that serves the purpose of maintaining physical balance.
What are ears?
The driving force of evolution that leads to offspring with desirable traits.
What is selective breeding?
The number of legs/limbs a lobster has. This includes the claws.
What has 10 limbs?
The university Ms Quek studied at.
Where is the University of Sydney?
Pi (π) to five decimal places.
What is 3.14159?
The organelle that makes plants green.
What is chloroplast?
The largest number of internal right angles an octagon can have.
6
Australians faught a war against this animal in 1932.
What is the Emu War?
Ms Quek's height in centimeters.
What is 160-ish cm?
The name of the dividing line in a fraction.
What is a viniculum?
The transition of a substance directly from a solid state to a gas state.
What is sublimation?
My fruit basket contains apples and oranges.
The ratio of apples to oranges in the basket is 3 : 8.
When I remove one apple the ratio changes to 1 : 3.
How many oranges are in the basket?
24
A fear of holes, typically characterized by an aversion towards clusters of small holes.
What us trypophobia?
The name of Ms Quek's cat.
Who is Sheep?
The name of the famous number sequence that goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
Galapogas island's wildlife inspired this theory.
What is the Theory of Evolution?
The balanced equation of C2H4O2 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
What is C2H4O2 + 2O2 -> 2CO2 + 2H2O?
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "The ABC Song" share the same tune with another nursery song.
What is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"?
The previous schools Ms Quek worked at. (Name one)
Where is Killara High School and Strathfield Girls High School?
A number that is spelled in alphabetical order.
What is forty?
The only two egg lay mammals in the world. Name one.
What is an echidna and platypus?
A palm tree that was 16 metres tall has snapped in a storm, so that the top of the palm tree has landed 8 metres from the base.
What is the height of the piece of the trunk that is still standing (vertically)?
6 metres
In Minecraft, a creature was created due to a coding error.
What is a creeper?
Ms Quek's hobbies (name two).
What are gaming, art, anime/manga, tidying/organising/cleaning, solving puzzles?
The name of the mathematical study of change.
What is calculus?
The term used to describe the process of making a conclusion based on observation and reasoning.
What is inference?
The four fundemental forces of nature. (Name three)
What are gravitational force, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force?
The release year for Mariah Carey's All I want for Christmas is You.
When is 1994?
Ms Quek's hot beverage of choice.
What is a cup of milk tea or matcha latte?