March Mathness
Women's History Month
Space
March Madness (Sports in general though)
St. Patty's
100

The derivative of x3 equals this expression.

What is 3x2?

100

These three colors—first popularized by the UK suffrage movement—are now strongly associated with International Women’s Day.

What are purple, green, and white?

100

On July 20, 1969, this mission achieved the first crewed landing on the Moon—“one giant leap for mankind.

What Apollo 11?

100

In 1992, the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, given this famous nickname, was the first to feature active NBA players.

What is the "Dream Team"?

100

While the shamrock is a popular unofficial emblem, this stringed instrument is the official national symbol of Ireland.

What is the harp?

200

Kinetic energy is the energy of an object relative to its motion and mass can be expressed by this equation.

KE = (1/2)mv2

200

In 1932, this pilot landed unexpectedly in a Northern Irish cow pasture after a 15‑hour flight from Newfoundland, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross; five years later, radio messages ended with “running north and south.

Who is Amelia Earhart?

200

This space mission failed as it was being broadcasted live due to a failure in the O-ring seals.

What is Space Shuttle Challenger?

200

In 2022, this Asian capital city hosted the Winter Olympics, becoming the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

What is Beijing?

200

Dating back to 1198, Dublin’s "The Brazen Head" holds the title for the oldest one of these establishments in the country.

What is pub?

300
Iconic movie Mean Girls came out in 2004 where at the end of the movie Cady Heron participates in a Math Bowl competition. She ultimately wins the competition by solving a complex limit problem with this solution.

What is the limit does not exist?

300

This Lemhi Shoshone woman served as an interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, traveling thousands of miles across the American West while carrying her infant son.

Who is Sacagawea?

300

This is the first animal to fly in space.

Who is Laika, a Soviet space dog?

300

With 11 national championships, this university's men's basketball program holds the record for the most NCAA tournament titles.

What is UCLA?

300

Legend says St. Patrick chased these reptiles into the sea, but science says they never actually lived in Ireland.

What is snakes?

400

If a function’s second derivative is positive on an interval, the graph has this type of concavity/

What is concave up?

400

For every $1 earned by men in the U.S., women earn only this amount in cents.
(Hint: it’s not 100, it’s not “close enough,” and it explains why Equal Pay Day exists. - Vidish)

What is about 82 cents?

400

Deployed from Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990 (STS-31), this observatory changed astronomy with ultra-sharp images from orbit.

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

400

This Brazilian legend is the only male footballer to have won three FIFA World Cups.

Who is Pelé?

400

According to legend, St. Patrick used the three leaves of a shamrock to illustrate this complex theological concept.

What is the holy trinity?

500

This is the determinant of this 2x2 matrix.

[ 5  7 ]

[ 3  2 ]

What is -11?

500

This American investigative journalist used data, firsthand reporting, and fearless writing to expose the truth behind lynching in the 1890s—so effectively that a mob destroyed her newspaper and forced her to leave Memphis.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

500

Launched December 25, 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket, this telescope was built to study the early universe and distant worlds in infrared.

What is the James Webb Space Telescope?

500

In which sport would you encounter terms like "skip," "house," "hog line," and "bonspiel"?

What is Curling?

500

Though he is the patron saint of Ireland, he was actually born in Roman Britain under this original birth name.

What is Maewyn Succat?