Pi Day Quiz

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14.  (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14)  What time does the official celebration begin?

• 3:14 PM
• 7:22 PM
• 1:59 PM
• 5:18 PM

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Who did the first proof to find the number pi?

• Archimedes 
• Pythagorus
• Socrates
• Boyle

What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?

• Pi Bee
• Pie baking Contest
• Pie eating competition
• Mails its acceptance letters

The symbol for pi was introduced in the last _____ years.

• 100
• 200
• 300
• 400

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Among the digits of π currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?

• 7
• 2
• 0
• 8

Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter "π" its current mathematical definition?

• Isaac Newton
• William Jones
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Archimedes

Who was the first group to find a value for π?

• Egyptians
• Babylonians 
• Romans
• Greeks

How many hours did it take a supercomputer to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits, in 1997?

• 78
• 3
• 29
• 124

Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?

• Euler
• Einstein
• Descartes
• Fibonacci

People tried for centuries to "square the circle". What were they trying to do?

• Construct a square to perfectly circumscribe a circle
• Construct a square of equal area to a given circle
• Multiply a circle by itself
• fit a round peg in square hole

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