Pi Humor
This squeezer is a mathematician's favorite reptile!
What is a Pi-thon?
This theoretical physicist who shares a birthday with Pi Day won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Who is Albert Einstein?
These World-Wonder structures of Giza, despite not being round in shape, were also believed by the ancient locals to be built on the principles of Pi, which they approximated as 3.1605.
What are the Egyptian pyramids?
In an episode of this classic science fiction series, Spock breaks an evil computer by asking it to calculate the last number of the value of pi, which is a real-life stress test for computers.
What is "Star Trek"?
This famous pie first introduced to the holiday table at the pilgrim’s second Thanksgiving in 1623 is also the state pie of Illinois.
what is pumpkin pie?
In 2008, British pranksters left behind this supposedly alien-made flattened agricultural formation in a code that represented the first ten digits of Pi
What is a crop circle?
This Indian actor and director born on Pi Day is considered one of the three King Khans of Bollywood.
Who is Aamir Khan?
Before the letter Pi was used, the famous mathematical value was named after this Greek mathematician and inventor who approximated the value of Pi by calculating the area of a polygon with 96 sides.
Who is Archimedes?
This novel by Yann Martel tells the story of a young Indian boy named Piscine Patel, who survives 227 days stranded at sea, and was later adapted to a movie for which Ang Lee won the "best director" Academy Award.
What is "Life of Pi"?
This is the state pie of Texas, in part because its filling is grown so richly in the state.
what is pecan pie?
These are dude friends who share a love of math!
What are algre-bros?
This point guard who shares a birthday with Pi Day revolutionized the game of basketball with his three-point shooting and has won multiple NBA championships.
Who is Steph Curry?
This Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer for whom e, the base of the natural logarithm, is also named, popularized the Greek symbol of Pi for the mathematical value in the 1700's.
Who is Leonhard Euler?
This 2001 film starring Russell Crowe depicts the psychological struggles of famous mathematician and Nobel Laureate John Nash, whom Elizabeth once spotted shuffling around the Princeton campus, where he found acceptance for his eccentricities and psychological struggles as faculty until his death in 2015.
What is "A Beautiful Mind"?
This U.S. First Lady is famous for her cherry pies.
Who is Martha Washington?
You get this when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter!
What is Pi in the sky?
This Texan gymnast who shares a birthday with Pi Day, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, has won 7 Olympic medals, including 4 golds, and is known for her incredible athleticism and skill on the vault and floor exercises.
Who is Simone Biles?
This university in Tamil Nadu, India is where the record for reciting the most decimal places of Pi was achieved by Rajveer Meena in 2015. He was able to recite 70,000 decimal places.
What is the Vellore Institute of Technology?
This 1985 novel by Carl Sagan involves an encounter with extra-terrestrial beings and suggests that the creator of the universe buried a message deep within the digits of Pi.
What is "Contact"?
This iconic dessert that you might try a bite of after you "pahk yeh cah in the hahvahd yahd" does not actually belong in this Jeopardy, because it's secretly a cake masquerading as a pie.
What is Boston Cream Pie?
In the 1930's, a group of Parisian pranksters invented a fictitious mathematician persona named Nicolas Bourbaki, who became a renowned figure in the math world and is actually credited with this innovative teaching method used in schools today
What is "New Math"?
This actor and comedian who shares a birthday with Pi Day is known for his roles in When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers, and the Princess Bride, and is also a legendary Academy Awards host.
Who is Billy Crystal?
This 5th century Chinese mathematician was the first to calculate Pi accurately to the seventh decimal place, a feat not matched in the West until 1000 years later.
Who is Zu Chongzhi?
This famous sketch by Leonardo da Vinci is result of his attempts to approximate Pi by "squaring the circle."
What is the Vitruvian Man?
This 1970's song by Don McLean has been covered by both Madonna and John Mayer, and has been featured in such films and television as Black Widow, the Boys, Stranger Things, Mad Men, and more
What is "American Pie"?