1) How many seconds in 2 hours? a) 3600 b) 7200 c) 6000 d) 360 e) 720 f) 600 2) Who is this famous mathematician? a) Albert Einstein b) Charles Dodgeson c) Leonhard Euler d) Pythagoras of Samos e) Charles Babbage f) Pierre de Fermat 3) How many dots are there on a dice? a) 19 b) 20 c) 21 d) 22 e) 23 f) 24 4) What is a palindrome? a) A number that is the same backwards b) A type of graph c) A number where you add up all the digits and get 1000 d) A 3D shape e) A method for solving equations f) A very small number 5) What was René Descartes famous for? a) Theory of relativity b) Konigsburg Bridges c) Prime numbers d) Difference Engine - The basis of our modern computers e) Boolean Algebra f) x and y axis 6) How many prime unmbers are there unde 100? a) 20 b) 21 c) 22 d) 23 e) 24 f) 25 7) Which of these is not the name for a very large number? a) Novemdecillion b) Quadracillabillion c) Googolplex d) Graham's Number e) Thousand quinquaquadragintillion f) Unsexagintillion 8) What number do you get if you add up al the numbers from 1-100 inclusive? a) 5000 b) 5010 c) 5020 d) 5030 e) 5040 f) 5050 9) Is there a number less than one thousand, that in it's written form contains an 'a'? a) Yes b) No 10) What is XCVIII written in our standard number system? a) 10008 b) 1153 c) 118 d) 98 e) 153 f) 953 11) Which of these shows the first few terms in the Fibonacci Sequence? a) 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 12 b) 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 c) 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36 d) 2, 6, 9, 18, 22, 39 e) 1, 12, 23, 34, 45, 56 f) 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66 12) In a group of 23, what is the probability that two will share the same birthday? (0.5 means it is a 50/50 chance) a) More likely than 0.5 b) 0.5 exactly c) Less likely than 0.5 13) What is 4! ? a) 16 b) 24 c) 4 d) 256 e) 44 f) 0 14) An odd number add an even number equals? a) Always odd b) Always even c) You can't tell 15) What is this formula used for? a) Finding an unknown side of a pentagon b) Solving quadratic equations c) Finding a prime number d) Working out if a number is divisible by 9 e) Working out Pi 16) What is the current record for the expansion of Pi? (24/6/11) a) 5 hundred thousand digits b) 5 million digits c) 5 billion digits d) 5 trillion digits e) 5 quadrillion digits f) 5 quintillion digits 17) What do you call an angle that is bigger than 90 degrees but smaller than 180 degrees? a) Acute b) Obtuse c) Right angle d) Reflex e) Tulon f) Great angle 18) What number does 'giga' stand for? a) One hundred b) One thousand c) One million d) One billion e) One trillion f) One quadrillion 19) What interesting number is created when you multiply 111111111 by itself? a) 111111111111111111 b) 123123123123123123 c) 12345678987654321 d) 12321232123212321 e) 9999999999999999999 f) 191919191919191919 20) You will get $1,000,000 if you find a way of finding all possible prime numbers. a) True b) False

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