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Math in Pop Culture (2000’s Edition)
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100: What is the only even prime number?

2

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100: Who is considered the “Father of Geometry”?

Euclid

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100: How many sides does a dodecagon have?

12 sides

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100: What is the largest number with a name kids often learn in school (ends in “-illion”)?

Answer: A googol (10^100) or sometimes “trillion,” depending on context (accept both)

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100: In the movie Frozen, Olaf sings about being a snowman “in summer.” What solid figure(s) is he mostly shaped like?

Sphere(s)

200

200: What famous irrational number starts 3.14159…?

Pi

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200: Which ancient civilization used base 60 for their number system?

The Babylonians

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200: What 3D shape has exactly one curved surface and one flat surface (circle)?

Answer: A cone

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200: How many digits of pi have been calculated with computers — millions, billions, or trillions?

Trillions

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200: In Minecraft, how many blocks tall is the average player character (Steve or Alex)?

Answer: 2 blocks

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300: What is special about the number 0 in multiplication?

Any number multiplied by 0 equals 0.

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300: Who was the first woman to earn a Fields Medal (the “Nobel Prize” of math)?

Maryam Mirzakhani (in 2014)

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300: What is the name for a 20-sided polygon?

Answer: An icosagon

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300: What’s the name of the largest known prime number category: “Mersenne primes” or “Perfect primes”?

Answer: Mersenne primes

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300: In Among Us, players often call out “sus.” If there are 10 crewmates and 2 impostors, what fraction of the group are impostors?


Answer: 2/10 or 1/5

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400: What is the next number after 1 in the Fibonacci sequence?

Answer: 1 (the Fibonacci sequence starts 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, …).

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400: Which famous Greek mathematician ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!”?

Answer: Archimedes

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400: The ancient Greeks thought this solid was the shape of the universe — name one of the Platonic solids.

Answer: (Accept any: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron)

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400: True or False — infinity is a number.

Answer: False (it’s a concept, not a number)

400

In the movie Oppenheimer, scientists work on the Manhattan Project. The power of an atomic explosion is measured with very large numbers. What math concept do scientists use to make writing such huge numbers easier — like writing 3×1083 \times 10^83×108 instead of 300,000,000?

Scientific notation

500

Why was six afraid of seven?

A: Because seven ate nine!

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500: What 17th-century mathematician and physicist independently developed calculus at the same time as Newton?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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500: Which shape has the property that the sum of its interior angles is 900°?

Answer: A heptagon (7-sided polygon)

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500: What is the largest known prime number (as of 2018) — over how many million digits long?

Answer: Over 23 million digits

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500: What set of consecutive numbers drives math teachers crazy?

SIX SEVEN