How would you do at a BEAM trivia night?

December 20, 2018

Fundraisers

What does it look like to combine puzzles, trivia, and a bit of math? BEAM's Slightly-Mathy Trivia Nights do just that, challenging guests to work together with students on fun, weird, challenging puzzles. If you want a taste of what that means, here are four rounds from our 2018 event. Scroll carefully as we’ve included the problems and then the answers on a next page. (Warning: Round 4 is hard!)

For Round 1, answer these questions first, and then click on the Round 1 link below to match each answer with a mathy symbol or drawing for double points!

What ocean borders on the US, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and Norway—but not Ghana or Namibia?
What is the last name of a famous tennis player whose first name is Bjorn?
What is the word for an old leather or metal glove?
What word means “placed more bullets into my gun”?
What public company has the highest market capitalization?
What programming language that is a dialect of Lisp is also a word for a devious plan?
In baseball, a line blank is what happens when the batter hits the ball hard with a low arc. What word fits in for the blank?

Try Out Round 1: Mathy Puzzles

Try Out Round 2: Civil Rights Timeline

Try Out Round 3: Thing Explainer

Try Out Round 4: Logic Meets Trivia

Thanks to all the BEAM students, supporters, and staff who joined us for trivia nights in Los Angeles and New York. Please join us next year! Sign up for our mailing list to get announcements about events in 2019.

Daniel Zaharopol

December 14, 2016

Fundraisers, Supporter Events

Annual Slightly Mathy Trivia Night!

Daniel Zaharopol

December 14, 2016

Fundraisers, Supporter Events

Each year, BEAM supporters, students, and staff get together for a night of slightly mathy-trivia, upscale pizza, beer, wine, and fun!

Our volunteer trivia host, Andy, designed a night of quirky and challenging questions! Here's a sample question from each round: (answers at the bottom of the post!)

Round 1 was a potpourri of challenging questions. Here's a mathy one: "What is the smallest possible value for |a - b|, if a + b = 2017, a only contains even digits, and b only contains odd digits?"
Round 2 featured a matching game. Given a single sentence about a game in one of 20 languages, can you figure out which language you're reading and what sport is being described? Here's an example: "In what game does one of the rules translate to 'Carduri trainer reprezintă Articole, Suporterii și Stadioane de un Antrenor poate utiliza în luptă'?"
Round 3 was all NYC, with questions about the boroughs, high schools, bridges, and more about our city. For example, "Which high school, which is one of the westernmost schools in Manhattan, is named after a former director-general of New Netherland?"

Teams, comprised of a mix of students, staff, and supporters worked together and got to know each other over the course of 36 challenging questions!

Between Rounds 2 and 3, we took a break to ask all the students present about their experiences with BEAM. The 8th-12th graders answered serious questions, and joked around, about math, high school, college, and more.

Couldn't make it this year? Sign up for BEAM's mailing list in the footer of this page to here when ticket sales start for next year. Our staff and students can't wait to meet you!