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Einstein
Pi
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Ms. M History
100
City of the first American colonial meeting.
What is Boston?
100
The country of his birth.
What is Germany?
100
The reason Pi refuses to be accurately written as a fraction.
What is irrational?
100
The original creators of pie.
Who are the ancient Greeks?
100
The year she was born.
What is 1958?
200
The invention patented by Eli Whitney to speed the process of gathering a major southern crop.
What is the cotton gin?
200
His family's religious background?
What is Jewish?
200
The record for the most digits of Pi ever memorized.
What is 70,000? (2015)
200
The idiom meaning to gather in a tight arrangement with your westward movement transports.
What is "circle the wagons?"
200
The year she graduated from H.S.; it was a celebration for the ages that July 4th.
1976
300
The patent date for this navigable airship named after its inventor Frederich von ...
What is a zeppelin?
300
The musical instrument he played.
What is the violin?
300
A language created from Pi.

What is Pilish?

Now I fall, a tired suburbian in liquid under the trees,

Drifting alongside forests simmering red in the twilight over Europe.

("Now" has three letters, "I" has one letter, "fall" has four letters, and so on.)

300
A mean string of events that don't improve one's situation.
What is a vicious circle?
300
The university she attended for both her BA and MAE degrees; she's a Panther through and through.
What is the University of Northern Iowa?
400
After passing the Currency Act on this day in 1900, all U.S. money was backed by this standard.
What is the gold standard?
400
The difficulty he overcame as a young child; before the age of 4, he was a quiet tyke.
What is speech?
400
The number of digits of Pi found so far.
What is 22.4 trillion?
400
A circular ring-shaped island created by earth itself.
What is an atoll?
400
The number of grandchildren she has.
What is 4?
500
This player set the NBA playoff scoring record in 1960 with 53 points, and he didn't need a stilt to do it.
Who was Wilt Chamberlain?
500
Einstein's theory that the speed of light was constant directly contradicted this other scientific & mathematical genius's laws.
Who was Newton?
500
The earliest location and time where Pi was known to have been discovered.
Babylonia, 4000 B.C.E.
500

Most famous song from The Lion King.

What is "Circle of Life?"
500
Her status as of March 20, 2018.
What is re-retired? (or volunteer)