This Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture patented the Rubik's Cube.
Who is Erno Rubik?
100
The 3-D geometric shape of the Rubik's Cube.
What is a cube?
100
The approximate number of permutations (real-bound) that is found on a Rubik's Cube.
What is 43 quintillion?
100
This organization is the official Rubik's Cube's international governing body, responsible for international competitions and keeper of the official world records.
What is the World Cube Association?
100
The exact name of this class.
What is "The Spark Rubik's Cube Olympics?"
200
This was the original name of the Rubik's Cube.
What is the Magic Cube?
200
The number of cubies a Rubik's Cube contains.
What is 26?
200
The approximate number of permutations (imaginary-bound) seen on a Rubik's Cube, ignoring limitations on mechanics.
What is 519 quintillion?
200
The fastest time the Rubik's Cube has ever been solved.
What is 5.55 seconds?
200
The cheating method used to solve the Rubik's Cube.
What is the "Screwdriver Method?"
300
This is the first company that was granted rights to sell the Rubik's Cube in 1980.
What is Ideal Toy Corporation?
300
The sidelength of a Rubik's Cube.
What is 5.7 centimeters (2.25 inches)?
300
The number of times that we can cover Earth's surface if we had the same number of Rubik's Cubes as there are actual permutations.
What is 275?
300
The cuber who achieved the fastest Rubik's Cube solved in the world; he is a citizen of the Netherlands.
Who is Mats Valk?
300
The basic algorithm.
What is "R' D' R D"?
400
This is how many Rubik's Cubes have been sold worldwide as of January 2009.
What is 350 million?
400
The number of center-pieces, wedge-pieces, and corner-pieces the Rubik's Cube contains, respectively.
What is 6, 12, and 8?
400
The approximate number of permutations found when ignoring mechanical limitations and counting the center-pieces (insanity-bound) on a Rubik's Cube.
What is 8.9x10^22?
400
The fewest number of moves the Rubik's Cube has ever been solved; achieved by Tomoaki Okayama from Japan.
What is 20 moves?
400
The different names for the possible final layer orientations when using the following algorithm: "F R U R' U' F'."
What is the "Dot," the "L", the "Horizontal Line," and the "Cross?"
500
The first award the Rubik's Cube ever received, which was in the year 1980.
What is the German Game of the Year Award?
500
The pairs of opposite colors that appear on the Rubik's Cube.
What is green and blue, red and orange, and white and yellow (any order)?
500
The mathematical expression that calculates the number of possible permutations (real-bound) on a Rubik's Cube.
What is (8! x 3^8 x 12! x 2^12)/(3 x 2 x 2)?
500
The fastest time the Megaminx (dodecahedron) has ever been solved; achieved by Simon Westlund of Sweden.
What is 42.28 seconds?
500
The exact number of permutations on a Rubik's Cube (real-bound).