Saints
Inventions
Engineering and Math
Algebra
Algebra 2
100

Known as the patron saint of impossible causes, he is also the namesake of a famous children's hospital.

Saint Jude

100

Edward Jenner invented a successful preventative treatment for smallpox using spores from cowpox.

Vaccine or What is a Vaccine? 

100

The strongest basic shape and is heavily utilized in bridge construction and roof trusses to distribute weight.

Triangle or What is a triangle? 

100

This is the standard term for the point where a line crosses the vertical y-axis.

What is the y-intercept?

100

This is the value of any non-zero base raised to the power of zero.

What is 1

200

You would pray to this patron saint of lost and stolen articles if you can't find your car keys.

Saint Anthony

200

Inventor who patented the induction motor in 1888 which ran on a power grid that distributes alternating current (AC) whose last name is synonymous with electric cars today.

Nikola Tesla or Tesla

200

In terms of 3D geometry, what is the ration of a cone is to a cylinder, or what a pyramid is to a prism.  The answer is a fraction between 0 and 1. 

 1/3 or What is 1/3? 

200

This type of line has a slope equal to zero.

What is a horizontal line?

200

This is the special irrational base "e" used in natural logarithms, roughly equal to 2.718.

What is Euler's number?

300

This founder of the Franciscan order is the patron saint of animals and the environment.

Saint Francis of Assisi

300

Garrett Morgan is an African American inventor who received a patent in 1923 for this system we still rely on today when we travel the roads safely.

The "three-light" traffic [light] system.

300

If a circle's area is exactly 16 x pi what is the length of its diameter.

8 or What is 8? 

300

This four-letter acronym is a mnemonic tool used to multiply two binomials.

What is FOIL. 

300

This type of sequence changes by multiplying or dividing by a constant ratio to get the next term.

What is a geometric sequence?

400

Known as the patron saint of musicians, she is said to have heard heavenly music in her heart at her wedding.

Saint Cecilia

400

Invented the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879. 

Thomas Edison

400

This theorem states that in a right-angled triangle, the sum of the squares of the two legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

Pythagorean Theorem or What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

400

Factoring x² - y² results in this specific algebraic pattern name.

What is the difference of squares?

400

This conic section is formed when a plane cuts through a cone parallel to the cone's base.

What is a circle?

500

This Dominican friar and philosopher wrote the Summa Theologiae and was called the "Angelic Doctor".

Saint Thomas Aquinas

500

Fictional invention invented by Hill Valley scientist Doc Brown in the 1981 classic movie, Back to the Future. 

The flux capacitor used for time travel or a time machine. 

500

The three primary trigonometric ratios. 

Sine, Cosine and Tangent. or What are Sine, Cosine and Tangent. 

500

If a system of linear equations has no solution, its lines are described as this.

What are parallel? 

500

This type of sequence changes by adding or subtracting a constant difference to get the next term.

What is an arithmetic sequence?