The Pi Trivia Game

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Finally this is your chance to pay tribute to the magnificent transcendental number that we have all grown to love! Here are 25 questions (given to you 5 at a time), picked randomly from my pi question database. Get ready for the thrill of your lifetime, the ultimate challenge, The Pi Trivia Game!

1. Who, in 1882, proved the transcendence of pi?

Werner Heisenberg
Mark Dettinger
Richard Feynman
Abraham Lincoln
Ferdinand Lindemann

2. For a given value of N: if you add up the first N decimals of pi (excluding the initial 3), the sum is 666 (not to imply that pi is at all satanic). What is the value of N?

144
169
148
123
121

3. What is the volume of a sphere (3-dimensional, not a hypersphere) [r = radius]?

6(pi*r)^3
(4/3)(pi)(r^3)
([2/3]*pi*r)^3
2*pi*r
4*pi*(r^2)

4. Simon Plouffe has recently derived an algorithm for calculating pi in hexadecimal. Remarkably, this formula allows one to calculate the nth decimal of pi without calculating the previous digits. Incidentally, Plouffe was listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records. For which of the following accomplishments was he listed?

calculating 3 trillion digits of pi with a Cray supercomputer
walking 1002 miles with a jar of pickles balanced on his head
reciting 4096 digits of pi from memory
baking the world's largest pie, so perfectly round that its circumference divided by its diameter gave pi to an accuracy of over 300 decimal places
world chess champion

5. Which of the following binary numbers is closest in value to pi:

11.0010010000111111
101.110101000111100
10.0001101010110100
1.10111011010010011
111.010111101011111

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