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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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  • Pi or Pie?
    Pie
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  • Pi or Pie?
    Pi
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  • Pi or Pie?
    Pie
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  • Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because it looks like March 14 (3-14) but what time does the official celebration begin?
    12:01 am
    3:14 pm
    1:59 pm
    3:19 am
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  • Who was the first to find the number pi?
    Archimedes
    Boyle
    Socrates
    Pythagorus
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  • What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) do on Pi Day?
    Pi eating competition
    Mails its acceptance letters
    Pi baking contest
    Students tuition is due
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  • The pi symbol was introduced how many years ago?
    400
    200
    300
    100
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  • In 1706, ________ added the first Greek letter to its mathematical definition.
    William Jones
    Albert Einstein
    Isaac Newton
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
    5
    126
    78
    29
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  • Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
    Euler
    Bell
    Einstein
    Newton
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  • What is the official definition for pi?
    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
    the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference
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  • What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
    3.1412695
    3.1412345
    3.1415926
    3.1415026
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  • How many digits are in pi?
    infinite
    100 billion
    50 trillion
    10 trillion
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  • What kind of pie is this?
    Strawberry pie
    Blueberry pie
    Cherry pie
    Raspberry pie
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  • How much money do Americans spend on supermarket pies each year?
    $260 million
    $700 million
    $2.3 trillion
    $1.1 trillion
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