What's my Name?
From Least to Greatest
Kids in Lit
Games
Problems
100

I came up with a theorem for relating the side lengths of right triangles.

Who is Pythagoras?
100

Pi,  11/3,  Maximum number of acute angles in a rhombus


Acute angles, Pi, 11/3


100

"I beg your pardon, sir!" This orphan "has asked for more!", 'cause that gruel was awesome

Who is Oliver Twist?

100

Did anybody see the play? It is the role playing game  featured there.

What is Dungeons & Dragons?

100

How many subsets of {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} contain at least 1 prime number?

240

200

Forget about Leipniz, I was the one who created calculus and have 3 laws of motion named after me. No big deal, right?

Who is Newton?

200

sin(45) 

Minimum number of real roots of a cubic function

Y-intercept of y = (x+2)2

sin(45), roots, y-intercept


200

In 2007 Greg Heffley's adventures began in "A Novel of Cartoons", book 1 of this series

What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
200

In the app called Plants vs. these, you have an army of vegetables at your disposal to defeat the undead

What is Zombies?

200

A 3 dimensional rectangular box with dimensions X, Y, and Z has faces whose surface areas are 24, 24, 48, 48, 72, and 72 square units.  What is X+Y+Z?

22

300

I've got a sequence named after me that starts:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...


Who is Fibonacci?

300

x-value of the vertex of y = x2+16x-1

7 choose 5

log381

log381, vertex, 7 choose 5


300

First name of young Master Fowl, the 12-year-old millionaire/genius who kidnaps a fairy

What is Artemis?

300

When you are down to 1 card, you need to say the name of this game

What is UNO?

300

Positive integers A and B are each less than 6. What is the smallest possible value for 2A - AB?

-15

400

The type of Geometry you first study is named after me.

Who is Euclid?

400

Interior angle of a regular pentagon

The largest prime under 80

The degree measure of 5pi/12 radians

pentagon, degree, prime

400

This 19th century character asked, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"

Who is Tom Sawyer?

400

To play this pool game named for an Italian, try to determine where people are by homing in on their voices

What is Marco Polo?

400

Six points are equally spaced around a circle of radius 1. Three of these points are the vertices of a triangle that is neither equilateral nor isosceles. What is the area of this triangle?

squareroot(3) / 2

500

The xy-grid we use for plotting graphs is named after me.

Who is Rene Decartes?  

(the Cartesian plane)

500

Ways to rearrange the letters in ALPHA

Possible pairs from a standard deck of cards

Total matches played in a 64 team, single elimination tournament.

ALPHA (60) , matches (63), Pairs (78)

500

Atticus Finch's 6-year-old daughter Jean Louise is better known by this nickname

What is Scout?

500

Build roads & cities in the Mayfair board game called "Settlers of" this place

What is Catan?
500

Real numbers X and Y satisfy the equation X2+Y2=10X-6Y-34. What is X+Y?

2