1.

Taj Mahal located in ___ is 73 meters in

height.
9. Which famous mathematician was born in
a) Greece b) China c) Pakistan d) Sicily around 287 BC?
India
a) Al-Khwarizmi b) Eratosthenes c)
Archimedes d) Hypatia
2. Who is the Father of Mathematics?
a) Archimedes b) Pythagoras c) 10. __ is known for Fibonacci Numbers.
Plato d) Euclid
a) Archimedes b) Leonardo Fibonacci c)
Albert Einstein d) Leonardo da Vinci
3. Googol is 1 with 100 zeros. It was used in ___.
a) 1935 b) 1934 c) 1937 d) 1940 11. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics
and brought together many important concepts
of infinitesimal __.
4. Who invented Algebra? a) Calculus b) Trigonometry c)
a) Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi b) Algebra d) Science
Albert Einstein c) René Descartes d)
Isaac Newton
12. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence
in his book ‘__’.
5. The mathematician Pythagoras was born a) Liber Abaci b) Fibonacci Numbers c)
around 569 BC. Where did he live? Abaci d) Fibonacci Sequence
a) Alexandria b) Cyrene c) Greece
d) Samos
13. Euclid is often called the ‘Father of __’.
a) Science b) Mathematics c)
6. Eratosthenes of ___ was a Greek Geometry d) Algebra
mathematician who worked on prime numbers
and geometry.
a) Pisa b) Syracuse c) Alexandria d) 14. Pierre de Fermat was best known for __ Last
Cyrene Theorem.
a) Pierre’s b) Fermat’s c) The d)
Pierre de Fermat's
7. This is the smallest perfect number.
Answer: 6
15. In __, Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical
calculator.
8. He is best known for the widely used formula a) 1642 b) 1640 c) 1645 d) 1641
known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
a) Pythagoras b) Pythagoream c)
Euclid d) Blaise Pascal
16. British mathematician __ proved Fermat’s
Last Theorem.
24. Described by Einstein as the most important
a) George Boole b) Arthur Cayley c) woman in math.
Alan Turing d) Andrew Wiles
a) Hypatia of Alexandria b) Emmy
Noether c) Sophie Germain d) Ada
Lovelace
17. Galileo Galilei was born in __.
a) Switzerland b) Cyrene c) Pisa d)
Alexandria 25. Pi (π) ≈ 3.__
a) .20 b) .15 c) .16 d) .14
18. Descartes was known for analytic geometry.
What was his nationality?
26. The equals sign (=) was invented by __.
a) Greek b) British c) German d)
French a) Robert Recorde b) Thomas Harriot c)
William Oughtred d) Albert Einstein

19. Leonhard Euler was a/an __ mathematician.

27. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is located in __.
a) British b) Swiss c) French d)
German a) India b) France c) Pisa d) China

20. The __ sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8... 28. Burj Khalifa is located in __.

a) Arithmetic b) Einstein c) a) Dubai b) India c) Malaysia d)

Fibonacci d) Geometric Pakistan

21. Galileo Galilei and Johannes __ made 29. Pantheon is located in __.
discoveries on planetary motion. a) Greece b) Rome c) China d)
a) Brahms b) Kepler c) Gutenberg Belgium
d) John

30. Parthenon is located in __.

22. Archimedes of __ developed a method for a) Greece b) London c) Rome d)
finding volume of irregular shapes. Egypt
a) Syracuse b) Cyrene c)
Alexandria d) Pisa
31. Who were the first to use negative
numbers?
23. __ theorem: a² + b² = c² a) Indian b) Italian c) Chinese d)
a) Pythagorean b) Einstein c) British
Pythagoran d) Trigonometry
 a) Isaac Newton b) Christoff Rudolff c)
Leonardo da Vinci d) Albert Einstein
32. Arithmetica is a series of books by __.
a) Pierre de Fermat b) Albert Einstein c)
Diophantus d) Euclid 40. __ proposed that things change from one
form to another.
a) Descartes b) Newton c) Plato d)
33. Who invented the infinity symbol? Thales
a) Descartes b) John Wallis c) Johann
Heinrich Rahn d) Isaac Newton
41. The abacus originated from __.
a) Europe b) China c) Russia d)
34. Plato posed the so-called __ Classical India
Problems.
a) Ten b) Four c) Three d) Five
42. Charles Babbage’s first computer was
invented between 1833 and __.
35. __ most famous work is The Republic. a) 1871 b) 1869 c) 1870 d) 1873
a) Plato’s b) Thale’s c) Einstein’s d)
Euclid’s
43. Leonhard Euler is the founder of function
__.
36. Pythagoras of __ was a Greek philosopher. a) Mathematics b) Vocabulary c)
a) Cyrene b) Alexandria c) Pisa d) Geometry d) Notation
Samos

44. A __ has twelve pentagonal sides.

37. Euclid of __ is known as the Father of a) Octahedron b) Square c)
Geometry. Pentagon d) Dodecahedron
a) Alexandria b) Cyrene c) Megara
d) India
45. Pi (π) was invented by __.
a) Carl Friedrich Gauss b) Blaise Pascal
38. Eratosthenes may have been the first to use c) Albert Einstein d) William Jones
the word __.
a) Geography b) Mathematics c)
Trigonometry d) Science 46. What is a curved line that is part of a circle?
a) Tangent b) Radius c) Arc d) Point
39. The radical symbol first appeared in 1525 in
Die Coss by __.
47. What is the sum of the first 200 counting
numbers?
a) 5100 b) 20050 c) 20100 d) 5050

48. Another term for the hashtag sign (#) is __.

a) Octothorpe b) Interrogation Mark c)
Asterisk d) Vinculum

49. Who stated that any floating object

displaces its own weight of fluid?
a) Archimedes b) Euclid c) Einstein
d) Newton

50. The + and – symbols first appeared in

Mercantile by __.
a) The Republic by Plato b) Elements by
Euclid c) Liber Abaci by Fibonacci d)
Johannes Widmann
KEY TO CORRECTION 26. Robert Recorde
1. India 27. Pisa
2. Euclid 28. Dubai
3. 1934 29. Rome
4. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmip 30. Greece
5. Samos 31. Chinese
6. Cyrene 32. Diophantus
7. 6 33. John Wallis
8. Pythagoras 34. Three
9. Archimedes 35. Plato’s
10. Leonardo Fibonacci 36. Samos
11. Calculus 37. Alexandria
12. Liber Abaci 38. Geography
13. Geometry 39. Christoff Rudolff
14. Fermat’s 40. Plato
15. 1642 41. China
16. Andrew Wiles 42. 1871
17. Pisa 43. Notation
18. French 44. Dodecahedron
19. Swiss 45. William Jones
20. Fibonacci 46. Arc
21. Kepler 47. 20100
22. Syracuse 48. Octothorpe
23. Pythagorean 49. Archimedes
24. Hypatia of Alexandria 50. Johannes Widmann
25. .14