1. MAO Quizzle-2011 10 20 30 40 50 Round 2 Name that Theorem
(or Postulate)
Gee…I’m a Tree
Math History
Computers
Plate Fun 10 20 30 40 50

2. “Given any straight line and a point not on it, there exists one and only one straight line which passes through that point and never intersects the first line.”
Category

3. Parallel Postulate

4. “No three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation
an + bn = cn for any integer value
of n greater than two.”
Category

5. Fermat’s Last Theorem

6. This theorem states that: if a function f(x) is continuous
on the closed interval [a, b] and
differentiable on the open interval
(a, b), then there exists a point c
in (a, b) such that

7. Mean Value Theorem

8. This theorem calculates the area of a polygon given the number
of lattice points inside the
polygon and on the perimeter
of the polygon.

9. Pick’s Theorem

11. Fermat’s Little Theorem

12. A plane figure with two pairs of congruent adjacent sides.

13. Kite

14. The point where the three altitudes of a triangle meet.

15. Orthocenter

16. A two dimensional representation of a three dimensional figure.

17. A Net

18. The term describing three or more lines that meet at one point.

19. Concurrent

20. An infinite strip containing a geometric pattern.

21. Frieze Pattern

22. Using a base-60 number system, this civilization is famous for saying there are 360 degrees in a circle.

23. Babylon

24. In Ancient Greece, these things represented earth, air, water, fire
and the universe.

25. The 5 Platonic Solids

26. This word came from an Arabic word first used by Iraqi mathematician
Mohammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi of Baghdad to describe mathematical formulas. It’s Arabic meaning is “reunion.”

27. Algebra

28. Of Archimedes, Euler, Descartes, Leibniz, Fermat, and Newton, which
one lived the longest?

29. Newton

30. What is the name of the
mathematician famous for
translating Newton’s Principia?

31. Chatelet

32. He designed the “Analytical Machine” that followed instructions from punch cards. It was the first general computer.

33. Babbage

34. C++ was introduced in
this decade..

35. The 1980’s

36. This was the first
computer language.

37. Fortran

38. In 1951, The US Census Bureau used this computer with magnetic tape as a memory buffer. It also predicted Eisenhower’s presidential victory.

39. Univac

40. The first super computer was called this.

41. Cray

43. Fibonacci

45. Euler

47. Euclid

49. Leibniz

51. Descartes