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100

The distance across a circle through the center.

What is the diameter?

100

A round object on a car that uses Pi when calculating its circumference.

What is a wheel or tire?

100

This type of dessert is often eaten on Pi Day

What is pie?

100

This number represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

What is Pi?

100

What is the second most popular pie to eat on thanksgiving.

Apple pie

200

The distance around a circle.

What is the circumference?

200

This object in classrooms often has a circular shape and shows time.

What is a clock?

200

This movie starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage features Pi as part of a treasure hunt in a famous circle-shaped code.


: What is National Treasure?

200

The first three digits of Pi are this.

What is 3.14?

200

Even though Pi is infinite, most calculations only need this many digits for everyday math.

what is 3.14

300

The formula used to find the circumference of a circle using the diameter.

What is C = πd?

300

Engineers use Pi when designing this circular building feature that allows light inside.

What is a dome?

300


Pi appears in the title of a movie about a mathematician obsessed with patterns in the universe.


What is Pi (1998 movie)?

300

Pi is considered this type of number because its decimal never ends and never repeats.


What is an irrational number?

300

Pi is used in math, engineering, physics, and even computer science to calculate this type of shapes or objects.



What are circular or curved objects?

400

The formula used to find the area of a circle.

What is A = πr²?

400

Bakers often use this circular pan when celebrating Pi Day.

What is a pie pan?

400


This famous comic strip character once celebrated Pi Day with a pie-eating contest.


Who is Garfield?

400

The symbol used to represent Pi.

What is 

400

People who memorize large numbers of Pi’s digits are called memorizers of Pi or this fun term.


What is a “piphilologist”?

500

If the diameter of a circle is 10, this is the approximate circumference.

What is about 31.4?

500

NASA uses Pi when calculating the paths of these objects traveling around planets.

What are orbits?

500

Every year on Pi Day, social media challenges pop up where people share pictures of circular objects, clever Pi puns, or even this activity involving eating a dessert.


What is a pie-eating contest?

500

The holiday celebrating Pi is observed on this date.

What is March 14th?

500

Google once calculated Pi to over this many digits: trillions or hundreds?



What is trillions?