Math Pioneer Jeopardy

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2. A - 100
• Which math pioneer is credited for the 17-
sided heptadecagon?
Carl F. Gauss

3. A - 200
• Which pioneer first learned Hindu-Arabic
numerals?
Fibonacci

4. A - 300
• Which pioneer is credited for the Golden
Ratio?
Fibonacci

5. A - 400
• Who created the pattern-filled triangle of
numbers?
Blaise Pascal

6. A - 500
• Which math pioneer first worked with Pi?
Leonhard Euler

7. B - 100
• What was Pythagoras considered the
father of?
Numbers

8. B - 200
• Who is Texas Hold ‘Em credited to?
Blaise Pascal

9. B - 300
• What type of triangles does the
Pythagorean Theorem work for?
Right Triangles

10. B - 400
• Which math pioneer is credited for the
Number Theory?
Carl F. Gauss

11. B - 500
• True or False: Newton’s work was credited
to someone else
True

12. C - 100
• Which math pioneer was considered a
child prodigy?
Carl F. Gauss

13. C - 200
• What math idea was Sir Isaac Newton
credited for?
The Generalized Binomial Theorem

14. C - 300
• True or False: Euler has two numbers
named after him
True

15. C - 400
• Which math pioneer was the Father of
Geometry?
Rene Descartes

16. C - 500
• Who do we credit for coordinate planes?
Rene Descartes

17. D - 100
• Which pioneer created a number
sequence?
Fibonacci

18. D - 200
• Which pioneer loved probability?
Blaise Pascal

19. D - 300
• Which pioneer’s theorem is a way to
expand powers of a binomial?
Newton’s

20. D - 400
• Who created the branch of mathematics
that deals with natural numbers and
integers?
Gauss

21. D - 500
• True or False: The Fibonacci Numbers
were a sequence
True

22. E - 100
• Which math pioneer used superscripts to
represent exponents?
Rene Descartes

23. E - 200
• Named after Rene Descartes, what were
coordinate planes originally called?
Cartesian Coordinates

24. E - 300
• Which pioneer’s work is used in analytical
geometry?
Descartes

25. E - 400
• Which pioneer created a way to write a
function?
Euler

26. E - 500
• True or False: The Euler-Mascheroni
constant is a number named after Euler
True

27. F - 100
• Mathematicians have made the Golden
Rectangle using which of Fibonacci’s
works?
The Golden Ratio

28. F - 200
• When was Gauss recognized as a child
prodigy?
Elementary School

29. F - 300
• Gauss’s Number Theory has this
nickname because of its importance to
mathematics
Queen of Mathematics

30. F - 400
• How did Pascal create his triangle?
Looking at binomial
coefficients

31. F - 500
• What is Pythagorean’s famous formula?
a²+b²=c²