Science Quiz | There are famous people in numbers too

question:

1. What is the smallest integer whose name contains the letter “a” when spelled in English?

2. This six-digit number is sometimes called by the name given to the famous Firebird because the first six multiples (1 through 6) contain the same digit as this number. The seventh multiple contains six digits with the same digit. What is this number?

3. Taxi numbers are so named because Srinivasa Ramanujan once realised that the number 1,729 (apparently the number of the taxi that GH Hardy took to visit Ramanujan) could be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. Now 1,729 is the second taxi number. What is the first?

4. The number 9 has appeared throughout the ages in many mythological and cultural contexts, from the nine worlds of Norse mythology to the navarasa of Indian performing arts, but no causal relationship has been found between them. What term did analytical psychologist Carl Jung use to describe such occurrences?

5. 30, 42, 66, 70, 78, and 102 are the first six _______ numbers. These numbers all have eight factors and cannot be divided by any square numbers. Fill in the blank.

visual:

Name this warrior who also appears in Homer's Iliad. His name is used to describe a figure who, like him, has great, but not perfect, powers.

Answer:

1. 101

2. 142,857

3.2

4. Synchronicity

5. Sphenic

Visual: Achilles