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Today is: National Pi Day

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  • What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) do on Pi Day?
    Pi baking contest
    Students tuition is due
    Mails its acceptance letters
    Pi eating competition
  • Pi is which numbered letter of the Greek alphabet?
    13th
    15th
    16th
    14th
  • What is the name of the tiger in Life of Pi?
    Richard Parker
    John Thomas
    Johnny Utah
    Tony Manero
  • Which one of these pies is a real pie?
    Superfly pie
    Booty pie
    Glue pie
    Shoofly pie
  • What pie is commonly served during Thanksgiving and Christmas?
    Sweet potato pie
    Blueberry pie
    Chocolate pecan pie
    Triple berry cream pie
  • Pi or Pie?
    Pie
  • What portion of Americans admit to having eaten an entire pie by themselves?
    1 in 10
    1 in 5
    1 in 19
    1 in 2
  • Who was the first group to find a value for pi?
    Romans
    Greeks
    Egyptians
    Babylonians
  • What is the official definition for pi?
    the surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7
    the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius
    the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
    the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference
  • Pi or Pie?
    Pie
  • Which one was a common pie filling in 12th-century England?
    Poultry
    Horse
    Beef
    Veal
  • They pi symbol was introduced how many years ago?
    300
    100
    200
    400
  • Pi or Pie?
    Pi
  • Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because it looks like March 14 (3-14) but what time does the official celebration begin?
    3:19 am
    3:14 pm
    1:59 pm
    12:01 am
  • Pi or Pie?
    Pie
  • In 1706, ________ added the first Greek letter to its mathematical definition.
    Albert Einstein
    Isaac Newton
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    William Jones
  • Which of these fractions is closest to Pi?
    21 over 8
    45 over 16
    5 over 3
    22 over 7
  • It took a supercomputer _____ hours to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits in 1997.
    78
    5
    126
    29
  • What kind of pie is this?
    Cherry pie
    Raspberry pie
    Strawberry pie
    Blueberry pie
  • How many digits are in pi?
    10 trillion
    50 trillion
    100 billion
    infinite
  • Which pie is popular in Great Britain?
    Apple pie
    Hot fudge pie
    Gingered pumpkin pie
    Chicken and mushroom pie
  • Which person has NOT been the victim of a public pie-ing?
    Bill Gates
    Julian Assange
    Andy Warhol
    Calvin Klein
  • Who was the first to find the number pi?
    Boyle
    Archimedes
    Pythagorus
    Socrates
  • What is the real name of the man behind YouTube's biggest channel of 2014, PewDiePie?
    Cory Williams
    Doug Walker
    Felix Kjellberg
    Brandon Hardesty
  • Pi or Pie?
    Pi
  • Pi or Pie?
    Pi
  • What kind of pie is usually served with ice cream?
    Pecan pie
    Apple pie
    Triple berry pie
    Peach pie
  • Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
    Euler
    Newton
    Einstein
    Bell
  • How much money do Americans spend on supermarket pies each year?
    $2.3 trillion
    $260 million
    $1.1 trillion
    $700 million
  • On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?
    Mincemeat pie
    Donut pie
    Apple pie
    Pumpkin pie
  • What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
    3.1415026
    3.1415926
    3.1412695
    3.1412345
  • Pi is best described as what type of number?
    a rational number
    an integer
    an irrational number
    an irregular fraction