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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?
    Socrates
    Archimedes
    Pythagorus
    Boyle
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  • What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) do on Pi Day?
    Mails its acceptance letters
    Pi eating competition
    Students tuition is due
    Pi baking contest
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  • They pi symbol was introduced how many years ago?
    200
    300
    100
    400
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  • In 1706, ________ added the first Greek letter to its mathematical definition.
    Albert Einstein
    William Jones
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    Isaac Newton
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  • Who was the first group to find a value for pi?
    Egyptians
    Romans
    Greeks
    Babylonians
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  • It took a supercomputer _____ hours to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits in 1997.
    126
    5
    78
    29
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  • Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
    Bell
    Einstein
    Euler
    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 the diameter of a circle to its circumference
    the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
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  • What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
    3.1412345
    3.1415926
    3.1415026
    3.1412695
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  • How many digits are in pi?
    100 billion
    10 trillion
    infinite
    50 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 10
    1 in 2
    1 in 5
    1 in 19
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  • On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?
    Pumpkin pie
    Mincemeat pie
    Apple pie
    Donut pie
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  • Which one was a common pie filling in 12th-century England?
    Beef
    Poultry
    Veal
    Horse
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  • What is the real name of the man behind YouTube's biggest channel of 2014, PewDiePie?
    Brandon Hardesty
    Cory Williams
    Felix Kjellberg
    Doug Walker
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  • Pi is which numbered letter of the Greek alphabet?
    15th
    14th
    16th
    13th
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