General Math Trivia
Question: Mason gets a 30% discount when buying three shirts for £9 each. What does he pay?
Answer: £18.90
Question: A bag of grass seed covers 5 square meters. How many bags would you need for a space 10m by 4m?
Answer: 8
Question: Flora gets a 3% pay rise on her salary of £33,000. What's her new wage?
Answer: £33,990
Question: A pizza has 8 slices, each containing 2.5g of salt. What's the total salt in the pizza?
Answer: 20g
Question: Fern scores 78 out of 200 in her French test. What is her mark as a percentage?
Answer: 39%
Question: Dave's hourly rate rises from £8.75 to £8.88. How much more does he earn for an 8-hour shift?
Answer: £1.04
Question: Ida has 72 great-grandchildren. A third are girls. How many are boys?
Answer: 48
Question: A restaurant orders 62 steaks, 34 sides of salmon, and 25 pork chops. How many items arrive?
Answer: 121
Question: Elsie puts 35p into a jar each morning. How much does she have after a fortnight?
Answer: £4.90
Question: Elaine has 96 paintings on her walls. She gives a quarter to charity and 23 more to a friend. How many are left?
Answer: 49
Question: Jane smokes 30 cigarettes a day and wants to cut her consumption in half. How many does she now smoke over a week?
Answer: 105
Question: Diana earns £8.80 per hour. How much does she get for a 2.5-hour shift?
Answer: £22
Question: Lynn's quarterly water bill is £22.75. How much does she pay per year?
Answer: £91
Famous Mathematicians Trivia
Question: Who is known as the "Father of Geometry"?
Answer: Euclid
Question: Which mathematician developed the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Who is credited with the discovery of calculus?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Question: Who proposed the famous "Fermat's Last Theorem"?
Answer: Pierre de Fermat
Question: Who introduced the concept of zero and the decimal place system to the Western world?
Answer: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Question: Which mathematician is often referred to as the "Prince of Mathematicians"?
Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Question: Who is known for their work on prime numbers and the distribution of prime numbers?
Answer: Bernhard Riemann
Question: Which mathematician is famous for the development of probability theory?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
Question: Who developed the field of game theory and won the Nobel Prize in Economics?
Answer: John Nash
Question: Who is known for their work on the mathematical theory of communication, known as "information theory"?
Answer: Claude Shannon
Math Theories Trivia
Question: What theory states that any sufficiently large even number can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers?
Answer: Goldbach's Conjecture
Question: What theory deals with the arrangement, combination, and permutation of objects?
Answer: Combinatorics
Question: Which theory involves the study of continuous change and motion?
Answer: Calculus
Question: What theory is concerned with solving polynomial equations?
Answer: Algebra
Question: Which theory studies the properties and relationships of geometric figures in two and three dimensions?
Answer: Euclidean Geometry
Question: What theory explores the properties and behaviors of numbers?
Answer: Number Theory
Question: Which theory focuses on the measurement and properties of shapes and figures?
Answer: Geometry
Question: What theory deals with the analysis of data and the interpretation of patterns and trends?
Answer: Statistics
Question: Which theory studies the behavior and properties of functions and their graphs?
Answer: Function Theory
Question: What theory involves the study of systems of linear equations and their solutions?
Answer: Linear Algebra
Question: Which theory explores the relationship between angles and the sides of triangles?
Answer: Trigonometry
Question: What theory studies the properties and behavior of vectors in mathematical spaces?
Answer: Vector Theory
Question: Which theory involves the study of complex numbers and their properties?
Answer: Complex Analysis
Question: What theory focuses on the study of limits, continuity, and infinitesimal calculus?
Answer: Real Analysis
Question: Which theory deals with the analysis of random phenomena and the mathematical modeling of uncertainty?
Answer: Probability Theory
Measurements Trivia
Question: I can fit 32 pots of spice on my rack. How many racks do I need for 224 pots?
Answer: 7
Question: A fishmonger sells 72 fish over the business day. If he sells 13 in the morning, how many are sold in the afternoon?
Answer: 59
Question: June's knitting circle has 23 members. How many people in total attend monthly meetings across the year?
Answer: 276
Question: Hugh starts work at 9.15, works for 7 hours, and takes a 30-minute break. When does he finish?
Answer: 4.45pm
Question: Ian cycles 5 miles to school each day but gets a lift home twice a week. What's his total cycling distance in a school week?
Answer: 40 miles
Question: Each diner in a restaurant gets 8 prawns in a portion. How many does the chef need to order for 54 portions?
Answer: 432
Question: Paul tracks his daily calories at 250 for breakfast, 450 for lunch, and 860 for dinner. What's the daily total?
Answer: 1560
Question: I spend 7 minutes a day in the shower. How long am I in the shower a year if it's not a leap year?
Answer: 2555 minutes
Question: A loaf of bread has 18 slices. How many loaves would I need to make 108 slices of toast?
Answer: 6
Question: A distillery produces 245 liters of whiskey a day. How many 700ml bottles could be filled?
Answer: 350
Question: How long does it take to play 4 football matches, not including breaks or extra time?
Answer: 6 hours
Question: 56 people are in a room. Half of them leave, then nine more leave shortly afterwards. How many are left in the room?
Answer: 19
Question: Elliott milks half of his herd of 96 cows and gets three pints from each. How much milk does he have?
Answer: 144 pints
Question: Each box holds 7 items. How many boxes do you need for 168 items?
Answer: 24
Question: 334x7+335 equals what number?
Answer: 2673
Question: 1203+806+409 equals what number?
Answer: 2418
Question: A stationer orders 25 boxes of envelopes with 40 items in each. How many arrive?
Answer: 1000
Question: An eighth of a postman's bag of 256 items are parcels. How many parcels does he have?
Answer: 32
Question: A factory makes 1575 units over the week. How many does it make each day on average?
Answer: 225
Question: A large pizza has 12 slices and costs £18. How much would it cost to feed 6 people, each eating 6 slices?
Answer: £54
Question: Cora spends £44 each month on gym membership. What is the yearly cost?
Answer: £528
Geometry Trivia
Question: Which of the following is not a branch of mathematics?
Answer: Hypotenuse
Question: Ben has 2 jigsaws with 1500 pieces each and 3 with 500 pieces each. How many pieces are there in total?
Answer: 4500
Question: What shape's area is found by the following equation: 1/2 base times height?
Answer: Triangle
Question: How many sides does a rhombus have?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the name given to rectangles whose sides have a particular ratio of about 1.6 to 1?
Answer: Golden rectangle
Question: What is the 'm' in E = mc squared?
Answer: Mass
Question: Which is the value that appears most often in a set of data?
Answer: Mode
Question: Something raised to the second power is Squared. What is something raised to the third power?
Answer: Cubed
Question: What is the term for a figure that's entirely enclosed inside another figure?
Answer: Embedded
Question: What is one half of a sphere?
Answer: Hemisphere
Number Operations Trivia
Question: Which C is a solid figure with a circular-based plane, connected to a point called the vertex?
Answer: Cone
Question: In the equation '5X + 6 = 45,' what is X?
Answer: A variable
Question: What is the square root of 81?
Answer: 9
Question: Which of the following is not an operation?
Answer: Square Root
Question: Mary was born in 1972. What birthday does she celebrate in 2020?
Answer: 48th
Question: A roller coaster has 14 rows with 5 seats on each. What is the capacity of the ride?
Answer: 70
Question: A driving instructor charges £22 but offers a 5% discount for booking 10 at once. How much does a course of 10 lessons cost?
Answer: £209
Question: Dawn is saving for a holiday that costs £1500. She pays half as a deposit and the rest over 6 months. How much does she pay per month?
Answer: £125
Question: A bowling alley had 12 lanes. Each lane had 10 pins plus a spare. How many pins did the bowling alley have?
Answer: 132
Question: Rachel buys 8 yards of fabric costing £2.75 per yard. How much does she spend?
Answer: £22
Question: Carl's monthly phone bill is $42. How much does he pay a year?
Answer: £504
Question: Mark scores 12 out of 75 on a maths test. What's his score as a percentage?
Answer: 15%
Question: If 6 ice creams cost £4.74, what is the price per ice cream?
Answer: 79p
Question: What is the greatest number in a set of data called?
Answer: Maximum
Question: A piece of lace is 1.8 meters long. How many pieces would I use for 4 dresses, each needing 2.7 meters?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the capacity of a 1000-liter pool filled with water at a rate of 50 liters per hour?
Answer: 20
Question: Each episode of a cartoon is 8 minutes long. How many complete cartoons could I watch in 2 hours?
Answer: 15
Question: A school has classes with 32, 28, and 36 pupils. How many pupils on average per class?
Answer: 32
Question: A music promoter sells a third of the tickets for a 930 capacity venue and gives 75 to friends. How many people attend?
Answer: 385
Question: If Tom uses a quarter of a cucumber to make 4 sandwiches, how many does he need to make 32 sandwiches?
Answer: 2
Question: 3 farmers grew 45 watermelons between them. If Farmer 1 grew 18 watermelons and Farmer 2 grew 12 watermelons, how many did Farmer 3 grow?
Answer: 15
Question: A car park has 30 rows of 7 cars on each of 4 floors. What is the capacity of the car park?
Answer: 840
Question: A leisure center has 18 spaces in a swim class and 70 classes a week. How many students are taught?
Answer: 1260
Basic Mathematics Trivia
Question: What is the distance around a circle called?
Answer: Circumference
Question: What operation is indicated by +?
Answer: Addition
Question: What is 1,000 x 1?
Answer: 1,000
Question: What maths word means the relative size of something?
Answer: Scale
Question: What maths term means as correct and exact as possible?
Answer: Accurate
Question: What fraction of a minute is five seconds?
Answer: One twelfth
Question: What number is 20% of 40?
Answer: 8
Question: What is 10 to the power of 6?
Answer: 1,000,000
Question: If a fraction has a larger numerator than denominator, it is what?
Answer: Improper
Question: Millie gets 68 out of 80 in her science exam. What is her mark as a percentage?
Answer: 85%
Arithmetic Trivia
Question: A sector is a region bounded by and including an arc and how many radii of a circle?
Answer: 2
Question: Which of these is the horizontal axis on a graph?
Answer: X-Axis
Question: 5 pentagons have how many sides in total?
Answer: 25
Question: What number is represented by a one followed by nine zeroes?
Answer: One Billion
Question: 40% of a shop's 90 employees are women. How many men are employed?
Answer: 54
Question: Erica needs 10 liters of paint for decorating a room. If a 2.5-liter pot costs £13.50, how much does she spend?
Answer: £54
Question: Leo spends £2.25 each day on a latte. How much is his bill for a week?
Answer: £15.75
Question: A French baker sells 553 baguettes over a week. How many does he sell each day on average?
Answer: 79
Question: A parent buys two bags of goat feed at 50p for each of her three children. What does she spend?
Answer: £3
Question: James has 6 singing lessons a month, each lasting 35 minutes. How long does he spend singing?
Answer: 3h 30m
Basic Math Problems Trivia
Question: Each pack of biscuits contains 82 units. How many packs do I need to give 738 people a biscuit each?
Answer: 9
Question: Audrey sells 88, 65, 67, and 98 books on consecutive days. What is her total sales?
Answer: 318
Question: Omar and Jean have 78 acres of land between them. Jean owns 32 acres, so how many does Omar have?
Answer: 46 acres
Question: Alice baked 30 cookies, but Betty cooked 50% more. How many did Betty make?
Answer: 45
Question: 80,000 fans attended a football game. The tickets cost $40 each. What was the total revenue from the ticket sales?
Answer: $3.2 million
Question: How many days are there in the last three months of the year?
Answer: 92
Question: A 60-month credit agreement runs for how many years?
Answer: 5
Question: I use 15ml of shampoo in the shower each morning. How long will a 360ml bottle last?
Answer: 24 days
Question: Jack walked 65, 54, 37, and 89 minutes on consecutive days. How many minutes did he walk in total?
Answer: 245
Question: Fiona's class marks over the year are 50, 60, 54, 66, and 70. What's her average?
Answer: 60
Question: A carpenter was constructing a timber frame. The wood was available in lengths of 3 yards. He needed a total of 40 yards. How many lengths did he have to order?
Answer: 14
Question: Helen buys 15 balls of wool weighing 250g for a project. What is the total weight of wool?
Answer: 3.75kg
Question: Mac sorts his jelly beans into 18 groups with 13 beans in each. How many beans does he have in total?
Answer: 234
Question: If a square room measures 81 square meters, how many meters long is each side?
Answer: 9m
Miscellaneous Math Trivia
Question: What was the name of the measuring system before we went metric?
Answer: Imperial
Question: Darren downloaded 50 songs in May and then 60 for each of the next three months. What is the total number of songs downloaded?
Answer: 230
Question: 200 runners competed in a marathon. 35% dropped out before the finish. How many runners completed the course?
Answer: 130
Question: 75% of the 312 sun loungers on the beach are occupied. How many are empty?
Answer: 78
Question: Each lane in the bowling alley can accommodate 6 people. How many lanes are needed for 84 people to bowl?
Answer: 14
Question: A computer shop sells 44 X-Box games, 101 Playstation games, and 88 Switch games. What is the total sales?
Answer: 233
Question: Kara is doing a jigsaw with 2500 pieces. She is three fifths finished. How many pieces still need to be placed?
Answer: 1000
Question: If a quarter of children in a school of 260 pupils take drama, how many are in the class?
Answer: 65
Question: Liam arrives at the cinema at 2.15 to watch a film lasting 90 minutes. When does he leave?
Answer: 3.45
Question: Entrance to the zoo costs £8. How much does it cost for Tom and four friends to get in?
Answer: £40