On the Shoulders of Giants
This is the only US President to write and submit a mathematical proof.
Who is James A. Garfield?
The derivative of sin(x) with respect to x equals:
What is cos(x)?
If the probability of raining tomorrow is 3/10, what is the probability that it will not rain?
What is 7/10 ?
This is the most popular major at Wartburg according to wartburg.edu
What is Business Administration?
This item is most often put on top of a building by college students to prank the administration?
What is a car (vehicle)?
The earliest formula for the area of a circle came from this group of people.
Who are The Egyptians?
The integral of (1/x) dx equals:
What is ln |x| + C ?
In a normal distribution, approximately what percentage of data falls within one standard deviation of the mean?
What is 68% (empirical rule) ?
Wartburg is the only private college in Iowa to offer this major
What is Music Therapy?
The University of Wisconsin Pail and Shovel Party decorated the campus lawn with these now-famous lawn decorations in 1979?
What are Pink Flamingos?
This man created the greater than and less than signs and is also believed to have first brought potatoes to Britain.
Who is Thomas Harriot?
The derivative of y = 5x3 – 2x2 + 6x with respect to x equals:
What is 15x2 - 4x + 6 ?
If the standard deviation of a dataset is 15, what is the variance?
What is 225 ?
This Midwest state was the first location of Wartburg College in the US; it also borders 4 great lakes.
What is Michigan?
The Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College was decorated as this fictional character in 2010?
What is R2-D2 ?
This Central American civilization used a shell as their placeholder for zero.
Who were the Maya?
Find the area under the curve of f(x) = x² from x = 0 to x = 2.
What is 8/3 ?
You have a bag with 5 red balls and 7 blue balls. If you draw two balls without replacement, what is the probability that both balls are red?
What is 20/132 or 5/33 ?
This college has historically been Wartburg’s rival since the 1950s.
What is Luther College?
This item was placed by MIT students at the 50-yard line on the Harvard football field all summer long, whereupon the students would blow whistles.
What is bird seed?
This Greek mathematician discovered ways to solve problems similar to algebra and integral calculus using his “method of exhaustion”.
Who is Eudoxus?
Evaluate the limit of z as it approaches 8, if it exists.
(2z2 - 17z + 8) / (8-z)
What is –15 ?
A deck of 52 cards is shuffled. What is the probability of drawing at least one ace in two consecutive draws without replacement?
What is 0.154 ?
This is a student-initiated, one-day holiday where its date is only known by the student body president and the college president.
What is Outfly?
This vehicle was used by Wartburg college students in 1996 to distribute anti-Luther leaflets on campus.
What is a plane?