It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know how to solve the quadratic formula, but it does take a whip-smart mathematician with a penchant for memorizing equations and solving square roots. If that sounds like you, these math trivia questions and answers will be easy as pi.
While math isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, there’s no denying the brain-boosting benefits of practicing your arithmetic. After all, our world is full of numbers, and knowing how to manipulate them is practically a superpower. Whether you’re doubling a recipe or painting your house, it’s totally rational to want to keep your calculating prowess primed and ready.
Once you’ve proven your finesse for fractions with our math quiz, keep flexing your brain on other science trivia like physics or chemistry. And if you’re planning to put your knowledge to the test at your local pub’s next trivia night, just remember that it’s dangerous to drink and derive.
What is a sixth of 36?
9
8
7
6
If you read 1/5 of the books on a book shelf of 1900, roughly how many books would you have left to read?
380
760
1520
190
516+348+180 equals what number?
2088
1059
1044
522
Which word means the volume of a substance that a container holds?
How many faces does an icosahedron have?
50
30
20
40
What is two to the power of 6?
16
64
128
32
Sept is which number in French?
9
7
3
8
What is 65 plus 43?
110
98
108
115
In mathematics, what is 10 cubed?
1000
100
100000
10000
Which word means to add money to a bank account?
Withdrawal
Savings
Deposit
Cheque
Kate gets $2 pocket money each day. How much does she receive in total in the month of March?
60
56
62
58
An eighth of a postman’s bag of 256 items are parcels. How many parcels does he have?
24
16
28
32
What is 33 times 5?
150
155
165
160
What is 70 minus 29?
51
45
48
41
How many 5c coins in $1.75?
35
38
36
37
Mr Smith harvested 79 apples in May and then 60 for each of the next three months. What is the total yield?
256
259
278
158
How many 1c coins in $8?
200
400
1600
800
What is 11, 45 and 6 added together?
62
69
63
69
What number comes next in the sequence 10, 22, 46, 92?
194
184
214
204
Polygons have to have what sort of sides?
What unit of depth is the same as 6 feet?
What is 67 multiplied by 40?
2680
1340
2860
268
What is four cubed?
64
74
94
84
If a quarter of children in a school of 260 pupils take drama, how many are in the class?
45
65
75
25
What is the number of deadly sins added to the number of human senses?
4
12
7
9
If you have 64 books and give 25% away, how many are left?
48
42
46
40
What is the cost of 15 bananas at 9p each?
1.55
1.3
1.35
1.4
What is the sum of the first four prime numbers?
18
19
17
20
What is 97 less a score?
87
67
77
57
How many cubic decimeters can one cubic foot hold?
34.3
23.8
41.1
28.4
Darren downloaded 50 songs in May and then 60 for each of the next three months. What is the total number of songs downloaded?
240
220
230
225
Dave pays 20% tax on his salary of $28,000. What’s his take home pay?
22760
23360
24000
22400
How many kilos in a metric tonne?
100
1000
500
10
200 runners competed in a marathon. 35% dropped out before the finish. How many runners completed the course?
70
130
150
170
77 can be divided by 7, 1 and which other number?
11
9
6
8
A stationer orders 25 boxes of envelopes with 40 items in each. How many arrive?
1050
900
1000
1200
A large pizza has 12 slices and costs $18. How much would it cost to feed 6 people, each eating 6 slices?
48
56
54
38
If you read 1/5 of the books on a book shelf of 1800, roughly how many books would you have left to read?
180
1440
720
360
Entrance to the zoo costs $8. How much does it cost for Tom and four friends to get in?
44
32
42
40
Cora spends $44 each month on gym membership. What is the yearly cost?
518
508
528
568
Kara is doing a jigsaw with 2500 pieces. She is three fifths finished. How many pieces still need to be placed?
750
1000
1200
1350
What is half of 34, plus 8?
24
25
28
26
Stanley buys three lottery scratchcards at £3, and wins 75p on two of them. How much has he lost overall?
6.25
7.75
6.5
7.5
What is the maths term for the units of energy found in food?
How much is a triple dozen?
72
24
36
48
What is the minimom voting age in the UK?
18
19
21
20
How many hours in two days?
36
24
72
48
Each box holds 7 items. How many boxes do you need for 168 items?
26
24
22
30
If a fraction has a larger numerator than denominator it is what?
What is the mathematical term for likelihood?
What is a tenth of 42, times 10?
43
42
45
44
A factory makes 1575 units over the week. How many does it make each day on average?
225
220
230
235
What is 10 to the power of 6?
10000
100000
10000000
1000000
What is the mathematic term for a list of numbers with some rule between them?
What is 1,000 x 1?
1
1000
100
10
What operation is indicated by +?
Mathieu Flamini played in the 2013-14 UEFA Champions League for Premier League side Arsenal, but what is his nationality?
What word is used to describe a triangle with equal sides and angles?
How many digits are in a thousand?
3
8
4
5
A man makes a 12 mile round trip each day to the shops. How many miles does he drive in a fortnight?
168
162
166
178
A computer shop sells 44 X-Box games, 101 Playstation games and 88 Switch games. What is the total sales?
253
203
233
213
How many weeks in a year, plus the days in September?
62
92
82
72
1272+852+432 equals what number?
2571
5112
2556
1278
Paul buys a car for $14,250. He pays $2250 as a deposit and the rest over 10 months. What’s his monthly payment?
900
1000
1250
1200
What is half of 38, times 5?
90
105
85
95
What is half of 78, plus 50?
88
89
90
92
What word means height above sea level?
75% of the 312 sunloungers on the beach are occupied. How many are empty?
72
76
66
78
What is 41 plus two dozen?
66
67
68
65
What number is 20% of 40?
16
8
12
4
108+76+44 equals what number?
114
456
243
228
What mathematical term means next to?
What is 96 divided by 3?
32
31
33
12
What is 267 minus 55?
212
213
214
211
Approximately how many horsepower are 1,500 watts equal to?
6
2
10
15
How many days are added to February in a leap year?
5
4
1
3
A gram is what percentage of a kilogram?
0.3
0.01
0.1
0.001
56 people are in a room. Half of them leave, then nine more leave shortly afterwards. How many are left in the room?
18
17
20
19
What is the name for the top part of a fraction?
What is the 5th decimal number in pi?
2
9
7
6
What is a half as a decimal?
0.5
0.4
0.25
0.6
Elliott milks half of his herd of 96 cows and gets three pints from each. How much milk does he have?
32 is 2 to the power of what?
7
4
5
6
What word means the same as zero?
Each lane in the bowling alley can accommodate 6 people. How many lanes are needed for 84 people to bowl?
16
13
15
14
891+598+305 equals what number?
897
1794
1809
3588
Rita has $5. She spends $1.99 on soup and buys two packs of pasta at 59c each. What is her change?
1.83
1.63
1.99
2.09
15 minutes is what proportion of an hour?
The prefix giga means which number?
32×18+226 equals what number?
1802
802
1604
401
How many in half a gross?
72
62
77
68
What fraction of a minute is five seconds?
What is half of 30 plus 97?
110
112
111
109
Which of these angle measurements is acute?
171+118+65 equals what number?
708
177
354
369
What is 0.333 as a fraction?
Thomas has 3 periods of French a week, each of 55 minutes. How much time does he spend learning French each week?
Liam arrives at the cinema at 2.15 to watch a film lasting 90 minutes. When does he leave?
3.35
4.15
3.45
3.15
An equilateral triangle has how many sides the same length?
6
2
4
3
What is the distance around a circle called?
What is 5 times zero?
1
10
5
0
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