Math Quiz

When the Amazon Kindle was first released, it sold out in five-and-a-half hours. The groundbreaking e-reader remained out of stock for 5 months! The device's name came from branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma, who suggested ‘Kindle’, meaning to light a fire.

Math can be downright interesting! For example, most mathematical equations were written in words before the 16th century! Could you imagine what that must have looked like?! Speaking of which, did you know that ‘Forty’ is the only number that is spelled with the letters arranged in alphabetical order?

‘Typhoid Mary’ was a real person who immigrated to the United States in the 1880s! Mary Mallon worked as a cook and carried the bacteria in her blood. She didn’t feel sick and insisted on working, passing the illness on to at least 51 people before she was isolated in enforced quarantine for the remaining decades of her life!