General Knowledge Quiz 27

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Archimedes described it as a greater than 3 10/71 and less than 3 10/70. Today that number is called:

Square root

Cube root

Fraction

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The ancient device was a predecessor of the modern calculating machine and is still widely used in japan and china. It consists of a set of beads on roads with each rod denoting place value. What is that instrument?

Abacus

Calculators

Stick

Test tubes

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Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?

Cubit

Stone

Karat

Parsec

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Who deduced the heights of the pyramids from the lengths of their shadows and measured the distance to a ship from shore by the method of similar triangles?

Pericles

Plato

Thales

Galen

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What set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared?

Trignometric identities

Cartesian Coordinates

Pythagorean Triples

Ordered pairs

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The numerals used by today’s mathematicians were developed in:

Greece

Arabia

England

Rome

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Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing “Principia Mathematica” and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature.

Bertrand Russell

M.C Escher

Jean Wourier

Norbert Weiner

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Who was a mathematician and writer?

Lewis Carroll

Pat Carroll

Diahann Carroll

Leo G. Carroll

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General Knowledge Quiz 27

Archimedes described it as a greater than 3 10/71 and less than 3 10/70. Today that number is called:

The ancient device was a predecessor of the modern calculating machine and is still widely used in japan and china. It consists of a set of beads on roads with each rod denoting place value. What is that instrument?

Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?

Who deduced the heights of the pyramids from the lengths of their shadows and measured the distance to a ship from shore by the method of similar triangles?

What set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared?

The numerals used by today’s mathematicians were developed in:

Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing “Principia Mathematica” and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature.

Who was a mathematician and writer?

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Archimedes described it as a greater than 3 10/71 and less than 3 10/70. Today that number is called:

The ancient device was a predecessor of the modern calculating machine and is still widely used in japan and china. It consists of a set of beads on roads with each rod denoting place value. What is that instrument?

Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?

Who deduced the heights of the pyramids from the lengths of their shadows and measured the distance to a ship from shore by the method of similar triangles?

What set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared?

The numerals used by today’s mathematicians were developed in:

Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing “Principia Mathematica” and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature.

Who was a mathematician and writer?

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