| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| V | If 18 is the surface area of a cube, 27 would be its... | Volume | 79%
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| E | Father of geometry | Euclid | 77%
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| N | 9 sided polygon | Nonagon | 77%
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| R | Type of parallelogram | Rhombus | 77%
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| O | Where y=x and y=-x intersect | Origin | 66%
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| B | Ancient civilisation who used a base-60 number system | Babylonians | 64%
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| D | He thinks, therefore he is | Descartes | 64%
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| Q | Written at the end of a proof | QED | 62%
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| S | 1 divided by cosine | Secant | 62%
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| C | Natural, Integer, Rational, Real, ... | Complex | 55%
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| G | His teacher told him to add all the numbers between 1 and 100, which he did under a minute. | Gauss | 55%
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| P | Orthogonal | Perpendicular | 55%
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| A | Self-evident fact that does not need to be proved | Axiom | 53%
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| I | ______ Hotel Paradox | Infinite | 49%
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| K | A one-sided 'bottle' | Klein | 49%
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| L | Newton rival | Leibniz | 49%
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| M | If f''(x) > 0, then the turning point point is a... | Minimum | 49%
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| X | Mathematicians least favourite letter to write, used for 'universal set' | Xi | 43%
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| F | To write any function as a sum of trigonometric or exponentials | Fourier | 40%
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| H | A conic section | Hyperbola | 38%
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| T | 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, ... | Triangular numbers | 30%
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| W | What was surprising about Monsieur Blanc? He was a ... | Woman | 19%
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| J | An upper triangular matrix | Jordan Normal Form | 13%
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| U | The u in suvat (Hint: 2 words, neither begin with u) | Initial Velocity | 11%
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| Y | 5040 written backward | ytrofdnadnasuohtevif | 11%
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| Z | 'To the eighth power' | Zenzizenzizenzic | 2%
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