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What is 16, raised to the power of one half?
You're at the craps table, shaking the two dice in your hands and praying you don't crap out with boxcars. Based on math instead of divine intercession, what are your odds of rolling that 12?
Because bakers were worried about shortchanging customers, how many loaves are there in a baker's dozen?
How many cubic inches are there in a cubic foot?
In what year did a calendar switchover lead to the days between October 4 and October 15 literally vanishing through most of Europe?
Defined in 1940 by Louis Harold Gray, a gray is a standard metric unit of what sort of measure?
How did Gabriel Fahrenheit probably decide how cold 0 degrees should be?
According to Benford's Law, what digit tends to appear about 30% of the time, almost three times the normal probability?
In one minute, how many degrees does minute hand travel on a circular clock?
Which of these centennials is shortest, representing 75 years?
How many square inches is a standard letter-sized paper in North America?
Rene Descartes coined "imaginary number" in 1637 in "La Geometrie." Which of these is an imaginary number?
In typography, an obelus is as any symbol, such as a dagger, used to indicate a footnote. But in math, an obelus refers specifically to the symbol for what operation?
The junction of geometry and calculus takes what name?
In most of North America, what is the longest month of the year?
In Britain, what unit of measure is based on the volume of 10 pounds of distilled water?
The US gallon is based on the old British Queen Anne's gallon, used for wine. The Brits adopted their imperial gallon in 1824, based on their old ale gallon. Which is bigger?
A US pint is 16 fluid ounces whereas a British pint is 20 fluid ounces. But in both countries, how many pints make up a gallon?
What prefix for things measured on very tiny scales gets its name from the Greek word for "dwarf"?
Which of these is a prime number?
In the world of gems, 1.215 pounds equals 1 avoirdupois pound. What system of measure is this?
As described by Pythagoras, the first known irrational number was the square root of what integer, which is also the first primorial?
What is the metric of 20/20 vision?
How many degrees are there when you add up the three angles of any triangle?
How long does it take for a million seconds to pass?
This unit measure power, or the time it takes to do work. More exactly, it's one joule per second. What is it?
Which of these contains exactly 1,728 cubic inches?
How many is a third of two dozen?
As of 2004, only 38 of what kind of numbers have been found?
Invented by the French mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1883, what stacking puzzle is used as an introductory algorithm problem in computer science?
Euclid discovered that the first four of these: 6, 28, 496 and 8,128. The fifth is 33,550,336 and is credited to Hudalrichus Regius, who found it in the 1500s. What are they?
If you can run a four-minute mile, how fast are you running?
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Leonardo Pisano, became famous as a mathematician, under a nickname that tells us who is father was. What name is that?
If you were a math radical, when might you use a symbol called a radical?
In French, they use leave spaces between every third digit in a number, and use what punctuation mark instead of a period to indicate decimals?
In a light year, light travels nearly six trillion miles. How far does it travel, roughly, in a light nanosecond?
What Greek letter represents 1.61803, an irrational number called the golden ratio, because it so often found in art and nature?
If you were to drink a liter of beer, how much should you order, roughly?
A series of five letters between Pierre Fermat and Blaise Pascal in the 1650s is credited with introducing what mathematical field?
What adjective describes Kurt Godel's most famous theorem?
You're at the craps table, shaking the two dice in your hands and praying you don't crap out with boxcars. Based on math instead of divine intercession, what are your odds of rolling that 12?
Because bakers were worried about shortchanging customers, how many loaves are there in a baker's dozen?
How many cubic inches are there in a cubic foot?
In what year did a calendar switchover lead to the days between October 4 and October 15 literally vanishing through most of Europe?
Defined in 1940 by Louis Harold Gray, a gray is a standard metric unit of what sort of measure?
How did Gabriel Fahrenheit probably decide how cold 0 degrees should be?
According to Benford's Law, what digit tends to appear about 30% of the time, almost three times the normal probability?
In one minute, how many degrees does minute hand travel on a circular clock?
Which of these centennials is shortest, representing 75 years?
How many square inches is a standard letter-sized paper in North America?
Rene Descartes coined "imaginary number" in 1637 in "La Geometrie." Which of these is an imaginary number?
In typography, an obelus is as any symbol, such as a dagger, used to indicate a footnote. But in math, an obelus refers specifically to the symbol for what operation?
The junction of geometry and calculus takes what name?
In most of North America, what is the longest month of the year?
In Britain, what unit of measure is based on the volume of 10 pounds of distilled water?
The US gallon is based on the old British Queen Anne's gallon, used for wine. The Brits adopted their imperial gallon in 1824, based on their old ale gallon. Which is bigger?
A US pint is 16 fluid ounces whereas a British pint is 20 fluid ounces. But in both countries, how many pints make up a gallon?
What prefix for things measured on very tiny scales gets its name from the Greek word for "dwarf"?
Which of these is a prime number?
In the world of gems, 1.215 pounds equals 1 avoirdupois pound. What system of measure is this?
As described by Pythagoras, the first known irrational number was the square root of what integer, which is also the first primorial?
What is the metric of 20/20 vision?
How many degrees are there when you add up the three angles of any triangle?
How long does it take for a million seconds to pass?
This unit measure power, or the time it takes to do work. More exactly, it's one joule per second. What is it?
Which of these contains exactly 1,728 cubic inches?
How many is a third of two dozen?
As of 2004, only 38 of what kind of numbers have been found?
Invented by the French mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1883, what stacking puzzle is used as an introductory algorithm problem in computer science?
Euclid discovered that the first four of these: 6, 28, 496 and 8,128. The fifth is 33,550,336 and is credited to Hudalrichus Regius, who found it in the 1500s. What are they?
If you can run a four-minute mile, how fast are you running?
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Leonardo Pisano, became famous as a mathematician, under a nickname that tells us who is father was. What name is that?
If you were a math radical, when might you use a symbol called a radical?
In French, they use leave spaces between every third digit in a number, and use what punctuation mark instead of a period to indicate decimals?
In a light year, light travels nearly six trillion miles. How far does it travel, roughly, in a light nanosecond?
What Greek letter represents 1.61803, an irrational number called the golden ratio, because it so often found in art and nature?
If you were to drink a liter of beer, how much should you order, roughly?
A series of five letters between Pierre Fermat and Blaise Pascal in the 1650s is credited with introducing what mathematical field?
What adjective describes Kurt Godel's most famous theorem?