Test your Math Quotient

Here is a small questionnaire to test your knowledge of Maths. Don't despair if you flunk it. A few sessions in our Maths Club Section (and recommended sites) will fix the problem!

The math quotient test (25 questions)
(For kids > 14 years)

Check the button corresponding to the right answer (1-20)

1. Who was the first mathematician to calculate the value of ?

Aristotle  Archimedes    Aryabhata    Bhaskara

2. The decimal point in present form was first used by 

Aryabhata    Euclid       John Napier    Issac Newton

3. Who gave mathematical paradoxes of Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow and Stadium?

Archimedes Socrates   Zeno               Euler

4. Rabbits appear in 

Magical hats  Fibonacci sequence  Fractals Conic section

5. It is not known whether the following number is rational or irrational

                 e                2                e

6. "Googol" is

A search engine   A famous Italian Actor 1 followed by hundred 0's

1 followed by million 0's

7. Who discovered negative numbers (as well as zero)?

Indians  Babylonians    Chinese Greek

8. What is a billion?

1 followed by 100 zero's 106   109   1012

 9. Computers are based on 

Abstract algebra   Boolean algebra Euclidean geometry Calculus 

10. How many zeros are there in 1 crore?

 Five     Seven    Hundred 1 Lac 

11. How many squares are in this diagram? 

9            10         14           20

   

12. Who coined the term "cybernetics"?

Wiener Shannon Turing  McCarthy

13. South Indian dish "vada" is in the shape of a 

Circle Cylinder   Oval Torus

14. Which ratio is most pleasing to the eye (e.g. size of a rectangle)?

(22 / 7) Golden ratio 1/3  Geometric ratio

15. A type of geometry in which the sum of three angles of a triangle is greater than right angle is called  

Euclidean geometry Relative geometry Riemannian geometry

Hyperbolic geometry 

16. Who wrote "Leelavati"?  

Aryabhata  Bhaskara    Brahmagupta   Ramanujan

17. Which number is associated with Ramanujan? 

   5040     1729    666

18. The Mobius Strip has 

No surface   One surface Two surfaces  Four surfaces

19. Who said: "There are three kind of lies - lies, damned lies and Statistics"?

Disraeli     Washington  Napoleon   Churchill

20. Earth is in shape of a

Sphere      Oblate spheroid    Ellipsoid       Circle 

True or False questions (21-25)

21. An irrational number raised to an irrational number (power) may be rational?

True        False

22. A complex number raised to a complex number (power) may be real.

True        False

23. 0.999999..... = 1

True       False

24. Among all the shapes with the same perimeter, a circle has the smallest area.

True       False

25. Among all the shapes with the same perimeter, a circle has the smallest perimeter.

True        False