80-POINT ASSIGNED QUESTION -- NUMBERS
What mathematician lends his name to the constant that is approximately 2.71828?
Leonhard Euler
What is 3 to the power of negative 2?
1/9 (accept: one ninth)
A 5-kilogram ball would accelerate at 3 metres per second squared if how many Newtons of force were acting on it?
15 Newtons
In which New England colony did the Salem Witch Trials take place?
Massachusetts Bay
Which country claimed to be “all the way with LBJ” in the Vietnam War through a speech given by its Prime Minister Harold Holt?
Australia
What is the lowest three-digit number that is a multiple of 7?
105
What type of numbers can be plotted on an Argand plane, and consist of a real part added to an imaginary part?
complex numbers
How many individual squares are on a standard American Bingo card?
25
Jiang Qing [“ching”] was the wife of which Chinese leader?
Mao Zedong (accept: Mao Tse-tung, Chairman Mao; prompt on: Zedong, Tse-tung)
Which 1968 North Vietnamese military campaign included battles at Hue [“hway”] and Khe Sanh and was the most important victory for the South Vietnamese-American coalition during the war?
Tet Offensive (prompt on: Tet)
What term refers to numbers that denote a position or rank, such as first, second, third, and so on, in contrast with cardinal numbers?
ordinal numbers
After 1, 3, and 6, what is the next triangular number?
10
Epistolary novels are written in the form of what documents?
letters
In the name of the company, what does IBM stand for?
International Business Machines
Ads by Swift Vets and POWs For Truth were intended to discredit the military service of which presidential candidate from Massachusetts and decorated Vietnam War veteran?
John Kerry
What word refers to any integer greater than 1 that is not prime?
composite number
Who isolated 7 elements in 1807 and 1808?
Humphry Davy
Gao was the capital of what large African empire that existed in the 14th and 15th centuries?
Songhai Empire
Francis Ford Coppola adapted the novel Heart of Darkness into what 1979 Vietnam War film starring Marlon Brando?
Apocalypse Now
21. What adjective describes a positive integer that is equal to the sum of all of its factors, not including itself?
perfect number