MATH TRIVIA

QUESTION

1. Before turning a philosopher, he

took up masonry and sculpting as his
profession for several years.
ANSWER

Socrates
QUESTION

2. Who are the two students of Socrates and

said that Socrates used to take money for
teaching and that was his only source of income
that helped Socrates to sustain a livelihood?
ANSWER

Aristophanes and
Xenophon
QUESTION

3. He was an ancient Greek

philosopher and scientist born in the
city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north
of Classical Greece.
ANSWER

ARISTOTLE
QUESTION

4. He was an Italian astronomer,

physicist and engineer, sometimes
described as a polymath.
ANSWER

Galileo Galilei
QUESTION

5. He was a German born

theoretical physicist.
ANSWER

Albert Einstein
QUESTION

6. He a seventeenth century philosopher,

mathematician and writer. He spent most
of his life in the Dutch Republic and he was
know as the “father of modern
philosophy”.
ANSWER

Rene Descartes
QUESTION

7. Known as an English mathematician,

astronomer, theologian, author and
physicist(described in his own day as a
“natural philosopher”)
ANSWER

Isaac Newton
QUESTION

8. When did Aristotle live?

ANSWER

384-322 BC
QUESTION

9. What city was Galileo born in?

ANSWER

He was born in Pisa

QUESTION

10. What tower did Galileo

supposedly climb to prove the "Law of
Falling Objects" theory?
ANSWER

Tower of Pisa
It was said that Galileo climbed this tower to throw feathers and a
rock at the same time and show that they can land at the same time,
but he didn't. This actually would've only worked if there was no
atmosphere in the place where it was dropped.
QUESTION

11. What was Albert Fish's most

common Nickname?
ANSWER

The gray man

QUESTION

12. When did Socrates live?

ANSWER

470-399 BC
QUESTION
13. René Descartes was a very famous French
philosopher. His works are extremely significant in
modern philosophy. He was very popular during his
time, but exactly when was his time? Which of
these answers contains the correct dates of his birth
and death?
ANSWER

31 March 1596 - 11
February 1650
QUESTION

14. Descartes is well known for

contributions to philosophy, but he was
also a prominent mathematician. What
systems did he develop and often aligned
in Geometry?
ANSWER

Cartesian coordinate
system
QUESTION

15. According to the calendar of the

time, when was Sir Isaac Newton
born?
ANSWER

December 25, 1642

QUESTION

16. This book of Isaac Newton was

first published in 1687, and laid the
foundation of classical mechanics.
ANSWER

Philosophice Naturalis Principia

Mathematica (mathematical
principles of natural philosophy)
QUESTION

17. The perimeter of a circle is also

known as what?
ANSWER

circumference
QUESTION

18. true/false? A convex shape curves

outwards.
ANSWER

True
QUESTION

19. Complete the Fibonacci Sequence

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34_____
ANSWER

55
QUESTION

20. In which numerals X, M, V, L etc.

belong to?
ANSWER

Roman Numerals
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