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100

This Famous Italian mathematician whose real name is Leonardo Pisano Bigollo has a sequence named after him

Who is Fibonacci?

100

Solve for x:

(x-7)/3 = -12

What is -29?

100

This term is used to describe two straight lines that never intersect

What is parallel?


100

This river forms the eastern border of Iowa

What is the Mississippi?

100

The food that gets gutted and carved into a Jack-O-Lantern

What is a pumpkin?

200

This mathematician is famous for never eating beans because he believed they contained the spirits of dead people

Who is Pythagoras?

200

Solve the inequality:

2x - 3 > 5

What is x > 4?

200

This quadrilateral has four identical sides

What is a rhombus?

200

This is the number of states that border Iowa

What is 6?

200

This Tim Burton movie follows the "Pumpkin King" as he searches for adventure after getting bored with his life of scaring people

What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?

300

This mathematician's original works are currently housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University

Who is Euclid?

300

Simplify the expression: 

(2x2+3x) - (x2-5x)

What is x2 + 8x?

300

The interior angles of a hexagon add up to this number of degrees

What is 720?

300

This is the oldest city in the state of Iowa

What is Dubuque?

300

The movie titled by this holiday's name features this famous slasher whose first victim was his own sister

Who is Michael Myers?

400

This mathematician is credited with helping develop group theory, but he is more commonly known for dying in a duel

Who is Evariste Galois?

400

Factor the quadratic expression:

x+ 5x + 6

What is (x+2)(x+3)?

400

This type of geometry is based on a curved plane rather than a flat plane

What is non-Euclidean geometry?

400

This U.S. president is the only to be born in Iowa

Who is Herbert Hoover?

400

This candy is the most popular Halloween candy in the United States

What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

500

This German mathematician is most famously known for her contributions to abstract algebra

Who is Emmy Noether?

500

Solve the following system of equations:

3x + 2y = 14

x + y = 5

What is x = 4 and y = 1?

500

The Cartesian Coordinate System is named after this person

Who is Rene Descartes?

500

Iowa has a land area of 55,875 square miles, which has it ranked this number compared to the rest of the country in terms of total land area

What is 26th?

500

This U.S. state is said to be the leader in the country in producing pumpkins

What is Illinois?