Math Lore
What Archimedes exclaimed when he discovered buoyancy.
What is "Eureka!"?
The sum of interior angles of a Hexagon.
What is 720 degrees or 4π radians?
The country where Dracula's Castle is located.
What is Romania?
The oldest Halloween candy still eaten today.
What is candy corn?
Ancient Mathematician whose teachings were the basis of a cult.
Who is Pythagoras?
Formula for the volume of a cone.
What is πr^2h/3?
The European Country where Halloween comes from.
What is Ireland?
Country that has over 300 flavors of KitKats sold in stores.
What is Japan?
A marvelous proof this question is too small to contain.
What is Fermat's Last theorem?
Regular polygon with the lowest number of sides, that cannot be constructed with compass and straightedge.
What is heptagon?
The Animal that some shelters will not let you adopt shortly for Halloween.
What are Black Cats?
To stop people from mistreating them for costumes and other festivities.
What are Reece's Peanut butter cups?
What is a slide rule?
Classical example of a shape with finite volume but infinite surface area.
What is Gabriel's horn?
The plant that used to be carved before pumpkins became more popular.
What are turnips?
Popular candy that was named after a horse.
What is snickers?
Today we define the trigonometry functions in terms of sine and cosine.
Historically the pairing was sine and ...
What is secant?
True or False
The sum of interior angles of a hexagon on 'on a sphere' is equal to the sum of interior angles of a hexagon on a flat plane.
False
The sum of angles of a hexagon 'on a sphere' is 720*(1 + A / 4π) where A is the surface area enclosed by the hexagon.
How often does Halloween fall on a full moon?
Every 18 to 19 years.
Halloween candy that used to be known as "chicken feed".
What is candy corn?