Formulas
The area of a square (side length=s)
The probability of tossing heads with a fair coin
What is 1/2?
Background: The Millennium Prize Problems were a set of 7 complex math problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 with a reward of $1 million USD for the first correct solution to be submitted for each problem.
Question: How many of the Millennium Prize Problems have been solved?
What is 1?
The molar mass of hydrogen to the nearest integer
What is 1?
The prime factorization of 50
What is 2x52?
The equation of a line
What is y=mx+b?
The mode of the set {0,1,1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7,7,8,8,8,9}
What is 8?
Who is Isaac Newton?
What the T in STEM stands for
What is technology?
The number of teams per division in the NFL
What is 4?
The denominator of the quadratic formula (assume the quadratic is y=ax2+bx+c)
What is 2a?
The percentage of female employees at Google in 2021
A) 25.6% B) 33.7% C) 38.4% D) 42.2%
What is 33.7%?
Background: Centuries ago, the mathematician Fermat stated that there are no natural numbers a, b, c that satisfy the equation an+bn=cn where n is greater than 2. This formula puzzled many gifted mathematicians in the last few centuries, and the first proof was not published until 1995.
Question: The name of the formula (Hint: this formula was the last of Fermat's to be proved or disproved)
A) Fermat's Little Theorem B) Fermat's Final Theorem
C) Fermat's Last Theorem D) Fermat's Cool Theorem
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
What GDP stands for.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
The number of studio albums recorded and released by Taylor Swift as of October 21, 2022.
A) 9 B) 10 C) 11 D) 12
What is 12?
The formula Gauss derived to add up all the numbers from 1 to n
A) n(n+1)/2 B) (n+1)(n+2)/2 C) n(n+1) D) (n+1)(n+2)
What is n(n+1)/2?
The average amount of times Zoom was downloaded and installed per day in April 2020
A) 0.5 million times B) 1.5 million times C) 2.5 million times D) 3.5 million times
What is 3.5 million times?
The "father of geometry"
A) Euclid B) Euler C) Gauss D) Archimedes
Who is Euclid?
The units of acceleration (hint: acceleration = absolute value of speed / time)
What is m/s2?
The number of countries in the world
A) 205 B) 195 C) 185 D) 175
What is 195?
The number 1729 expressed in Roman numerals.
What is MDCCXXIX?
Background: Earned Run Average (ERA) is a standard measure of how "good" a baseball pitcher is. If a pitcher has a lower ERA, they are considered "better" pitchers in many aspects. In 2022, the average ERA across the MLB was 3.96.
Question: The ERA of Alek Manoah (Blue Jays pitcher) in 2022 (within 0.2)
What is 2.24?
The mathematician who came up with the volume of a sphere
Who is Archimedes?
The value of Planck's constant (physical constant in quantum mechanics)
Irena's favourite number
What is 23?