Statistics for Mathematical A-Z #1

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
E	Father of geometry	Euclid	76%
R	Type of parallelogram	Rhombus	72%
D	He thinks, therefore he is	Descartes	69%
N	9 sided polygon	Nonagon	69%
V	If 18 is the surface area of a cube, 27 would be its...	Volume	69%
O	Where y=x and y=-x intersect	Origin	62%
B	Ancient civilisation who used a base-60 number system	Babylonians	59%
Q	Written at the end of a proof	QED	59%
A	Self-evident fact that does not need to be proved	Axiom	55%
P	Orthogonal	Perpendicular	55%
G	His teacher told him to add all the numbers between 1 and 100, which he did under a minute.	Gauss	52%
S	1 divided by cosine	Secant	48%
C	Natural, Integer, Rational, Real, ...	Complex	45%
I	______ Hotel Paradox	Infinite	45%
L	Newton rival	Leibniz	45%
F	To write any function as a sum of trigonometric or exponentials	Fourier	41%
K	A one-sided 'bottle'	Klein	41%
M	If f''(x) > 0, then the turning point point is a...	Minimum	41%
H	A conic section	Hyperbola	31%
X	Mathematicians least favourite letter to write, used for 'universal set'	Xi	31%
T	1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, ...	Triangular numbers	24%
W	What was surprising about Monsieur Blanc? He was a ...	Woman	21%
J	An upper triangular matrix	Jordan Normal Form	17%
Y	5040 written backward	ytrofdnadnasuohtevif	14%
U	The u in suvat (Hint: 2 words, neither begin with u)	Initial Velocity	10%
Z	'To the eighth power'	Zenzizenzizenzic	3%