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It’s Pi Day!

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    March 14 is National Pi Day so test your knowledge about Pi, Pie or both!
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  • Who was the first to find the number pi?
    Pythagorus
    Socrates
    Boyle
    Archimedes
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  • What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) do on Pi Day?
    Mails its acceptance letters
    Pi baking contest
    Pi eating competition
    Students tuition is due
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  • They pi symbol was introduced how many years ago?
    400
    300
    200
    100
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  • In 1706, ________ added the first Greek letter to its mathematical definition.
    Isaac Newton
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    William Jones
    Albert Einstein
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  • Who was the first group to find a value for pi?
    Babylonians
    Romans
    Egyptians
    Greeks
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  • It took a supercomputer _____ hours to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits in 1997.
    126
    78
    29
    5
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  • Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
    Newton
    Bell
    Euler
    Einstein
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  • What is the official definition for pi?
    the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference
    the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius
    the surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7
    the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
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  • What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
    3.1415926
    3.1412345
    3.1415026
    3.1412695
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  • How many digits are in pi?
    100 billion
    50 trillion
    infinite
    10 trillion
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  • How much money do Americans spend on supermarket pies each year?
    $260 million
    $700 million
    $1.1 trillion
    $2.3 trillion
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  • What portion of Americans admit to having eaten an entire pie by themselves?
    1 in 5
    1 in 2
    1 in 19
    1 in 10
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  • On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?
    Mincemeat pie
    Pumpkin pie
    Donut pie
    Apple pie
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  • Which one was a common pie filling in 12th-century England?
    Horse
    Beef
    Veal
    Poultry
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  • What is the real name of the man behind YouTube's biggest channel of 2014, PewDiePie?
    Brandon Hardesty
    Cory Williams
    Doug Walker
    Felix Kjellberg
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  • Pi is which numbered letter of the Greek alphabet?
    16th
    13th
    15th
    14th
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