Mathematics Trivia Questions
- Excluding the numbers 2 and 5, every prime number must end in one of which four digits in a base-10 system?
- How many degrees are in a full circle?
- How many faces does a cube have?
- How many faces does a regular dodecahedron have?
- How many items are in a 'Baker's Dozen'?
- How many seconds are in one hour?
- If a circle has a radius of 5, what is its diameter?
- In a 24-hour clock, what time is 15:00?
- In a least-squares problem to solve Ax = b, what set of equations is typically solved?
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, what is the specific name of the vertical axis?
- In a Venn diagram, what is the overlapping area between two sets called?
- In algebra, what is a 'coefficient'?
- In algebra, what is a 'constant'?
- In algebra, what is a symbol (usually a letter) that represents an unknown number?
- In basic arithmetic, what is the result of a division called?
- In calculus, what represents the instantaneous rate of change of a function?
- In calculus, what term describes a function that is either entirely non-increasing or entirely non-decreasing?
- In coordinate geometry, what is the technical term for the x-coordinate of a point?
- In Euclidean geometry, what is the sum of the internal angles of a triangle?
- In geometry, the 'circumcenter' is the point of concurrency for the perpendicular bisectors of which polygon?
- In geometry, what is a 'chord'?
- In geometry, what is a 'polyhedron'?
- In geometry, what is the term for a straight line that touches a circle at exactly one point?
- In math, what is the point where a curve or surface crosses itself?
- In mathematics, what is a 'set'?
- In mathematics, what is the definition of a 'null set'?
- In mathematics, what is the 'mode' of a set of numbers?
- In mathematics, what is the term for a number's distance from zero on a number line, expressed as a non-negative value?
- In mathematics, what is the term for a whole number that can be positive, negative, or zero, and has no fractional part?
- In North American geometry, what is the name of a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides?
- In physics and mathematics, what is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction?
- In probability, what is the chance of rolling a '6' on a standard six-sided die?
- In probability, what is the term for the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment?
- In standard algebraic notation, which letters from the end of the alphabet are typically used to represent unknown variables?
- In statistics, what is the difference between the maximum and minimum values in a data set?
- In statistics, what is the specific term for the arithmetic average of a data set?
- In statistics, what is the term for the middle value in a list of numbers ordered from least to greatest?
- In statistics, which measure of central tendency is calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values?
- In the context of numerical linear algebra, what is the product of the norm of A and the norm of A-inverse called?
- In the coordinate plane, what is the horizontal axis usually called?
- In the equation y = mx + b, what does 'm' represent?
- In the geometric sequence 2, 4, 8, 16, what is the common ratio?
- In the order of operations (PEMDAS/BODMAS), what does the 'P' or 'B' stand for?
- In the order of operations (PEMDAS), what does the 'E' stand for?
- In trigonometry, the x-coordinate of a point on the unit circle represents which function of the angle theta?
- What is the minimum number of U.S. coins needed to make exactly 61 cents?
- The Clay Mathematics Institute offers a $1 million reward for the solution to each of the seven mathematical challenges known by what collective name?
- The magnitude of the cross product of two vectors in R^3 is equal to the area of what geometric shape?
- The tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron are collectively known as what kind of solids?
- What are the only two real numbers that are equal to their own squares?