Minnesota
Spirals
German Mathematicians
Elections & Voting
Arnd Scheel
100
This charming city on the Mississippi River is the capital of Minnesota.
What is St. Paul?
100
These two numbers can be found counting the spirals on a pineapple.
What are 8 and 13?
100
This mathematician appears on an old German bank note.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
100
100 years ago the 19th amendment gave this group the right to vote.
Who are white women?
100
Arnd earned his PhD at this university.
What is Freie Universitaet Berlin?
200
This burly lumberjack and his blue ox Babe greet visitors on the shores of Lake Bemidji.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
200
The distance from a point on a logarithmic spiral to the center along the arc is finite or infinite.
What is finite?
200
This mathematician shares a name with a German butter cookie.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
200
The date the next Presidential term begins.
What is January 20, 2021?
200
This famous peak is the last mountain Arnd climbed.
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
This beloved Minnesota senator died in a plane crash during his reelection campaign.
Who was Paul Wellstone?
300
A spiral sculpture by Robert Smithson is found here. 
What is the Great Salt Lake?
300
He less known for wanting to prove what could not be proved in three volumes.
Who is David Hilbert?
300
The number of votes it takes to win the Electoral College.
What is 270?
300
Arnd's mathematical ancestor who shares a last name with this inventor famous for having 57 varieties.
Who is Heinz?
400
These popular toys toys were created by a garden-implement business named after a Minnesota Lake.
What is Tonka trucks?
400
Name of this triple Greek spiral.
What is a triskelion?
400
She discovered why energy and momentum are conserved.
Who is Emmy Noether?
400
This president signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
400
The number of continents Arnd has visited.
What is 3?
500
This native American tribe formed the first nation in Minnesota.
Who are the Dakota?
500
What may well be the largest spiral.
What is the galaxy?
500
This German mathematician is known for creating American applied mathematics.
Who is Richard Courant?
500
He was the most recent third-party candidate to get votes in the Electoral College.
Who is George Wallace?
500
Aaron says that his father Arnd is most like this character from Peanuts.
Who is ?