Math Trivia
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100
The net prime number that follows 7.
What is 11
100
Popular Holiday decoration that is used to crack nuts.
What is A Nutcracker
100
Using only addition, this sum of combinations of the number eight equals exactly 1,000.
What is 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8
100
The other name for Chinese New Year
What is Spring Festival
100
Jack Skellington's dog's name.
Who is Zero (Nightmare before Christmas)
100
The number of days Hanukkah lasts.
What is 8
200
The Greek father of mathematics, who represented equations and numbers using rocks
Who is Pythagoras
200
A house that is edible.
What is a Gingerbread house
200
One brother says of his younger brother: “Two years ago, I was three times as old as my brother was. In three years, I will be twice as old as my brother.” This is how old they are now.
What is 17 and 7
200
The two most popular Holiday colors after red and green are these
what are Gold and Silver
200
The movie with a young boy, trying to escape robbers.
What is Home Alone
200
The name Santa Claus comes from this person.
Who is Saint Nicholas
300
Apart from one, I am the first positive number that is both a square and a cube.
What is 64
300
Kids leave this meal out for Santa on Christmas Eve
What are Milk and Cookies
300
If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?
What is 24
300
Where people use the greeting "Mele Kalikimaka"
what is Hawaii
300
Animated film about a train that carries kids to the North Pole.
What is the polar Express
300
The location of the largest Hanukkah candelabra
What is New York City
400
The name of this sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…
What is Fibonacci sequence
400
The name for the candelabra used to celebrate Hanukkah.
What is Menorah
400
My twin lives at the reverse of my house number. The difference between our house numbers ends in two. What are the lowest possible numbers of our house numbers?
What is 19 and 91.
400
The color of the envelops exchanged for Chinese New Year
What is red
400
"Miracle on 34th Street" centers on this department store.
What is Macy's?
400
The number of ghosts that appear in A Christmas Carol
What is 4
500
Three numbers that have the same result when added or multiplied together.
What is 1,2, and 3
500
Famous Holiday plant that gets hung above heads.
What is Mistletoe
500
A small number of cards has been lost from a complete pack. If I deal among four people, three cards remain. If I deal among three people, two remain and if I deal among five people, two cards remain. How many cards are there?
What is 47 cards.
500
This fried dessert is a Hanukkah tradition.
what is a jelly doughnut
500
Cindy Lou Who is from this Christmas movie.
What is The Grinch
500
The type of night Diwali is celebrated on.
What is moonless
600
"but do you recall....the most famous reindeer of all?"
What is Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
600
According to Hindu mythology, Diwali is the day Lord ________ and his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana returned to their homeland after 14 years of exile.
Who is Ram or Rama
600
What’s the maximum number of times you can subtract five from 25?
What is . . .
You can subtract 5 from 25 only once. After that, you would be subtracting from 20 (haha!). Some sources claim that you can subtract 5 from 25 infinite times, but this is incorrect. The correct answer is 5 times. This is because 25 divided by 5 is 5. After you subtract 5, 5 times from 25, then there is nothing left to subtract from.
600
The number of nights Diwali is celebrated over
What are five nights
600
The source of Frosty's powers
What is his hat?
600
This art form originating in India is often created during Dwali.
What is Rangoli.
700
The real-time unit that is a jiffy.
What is 1/100th of a second.
700
The name of the toy top spun in relation to Hanukkah.
What is a dreidel
700
You have two U.S. coins with a total value of 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
What is a nickel and a quarter.
Got you!
700
The type of trees most commonly used as Christmas Trees
Coniferous or Evergreen (fir)
700
This character loves syrup so much he puts it on his spaghetti.
Who is Buddy the Elf
700
The number of candles on the Hanukkah candelabra
What is 9
800
The only number that does not have a Roman numeral.
What is 0
800
One of the two fruits that play a large role in Chinese New Year festivities
What are oranges and tangerines
800
What occurs once every minute, twice in every moment, and yet never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M. The letter "M" appears once in the word "minute" and twice in the word "moment", but it never appears in the phrase "a thousand years."
800
The meaning of the word Diwali
What is Festival of lights
800
In Polar Express, only these people can hear the bells ring.
What are True Believers
800
According to Chinese New Year, the upcoming zodiac sign for 2024.
What is the Dragon
900
In 1706, William Jones adapted this mathematical symbol.
What is π
900
A Christian ornamental display of the birth of Jesus
What is a Nativity scene
900
A duck was given $9, a spider was given $36, and a bee was given $27. Based on this information, how much money would be given to a cat?
What is 18 dollars. The money is given based on the animal’s legs and per leg is equal to $4.50.
900
The meaning of the word ḥănukkāh.
What is dedication
900
The 2002 animated holiday movie starring Adam Sandler.
What is Eight Crazy Nights
900
The festival celebrated on the fourth night of Diwali.
What is Annakut.
1000
The person who developed paint-by-number.
Who is Da Vinci
1000
To prepare for the Chinese New Year, what is done in the days leading up to the holiday to get rid of the past year's bad luck.
What is cleaning the house
1000
Caleb is 54 years old, and his father, Franklin is 80. This is how many years ago it was that Franklin was three times the age of his son Caleb.
What is 41 years ago
1000
This beverage company has been making commercials starring Santa Claus since the 1920's
What is Coca Cola
1000
The two sons of Mother Nature in A Year Without a Santa Claus.
Who is Heat Miser and Snow Miser
1000
A reindeer is also known as this in North America.
What is a caribou.