Projectile Motion
Statistics
Probability
Sports Trivia from when Mr. Mehr was in High School
Movie Trivia from when Mr. Mehr was in High School
100

This quantity describes the distance traveled per unit of time, without direction.

What is speed?

100

This branch of statistics describes and summarizes collected data.

What are descriptive statistics?

100

This term refers to the calculated likelihood that a given event will occur.

What is probability?

100

This MLB team ended an 86-year championship drought by winning the 2004 World Series.

What are the Boston Red Sox?

100

This Pixar film about a family of superheroes won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2005.

What is The Incredibles?

200

This is the constant acceleration acting on all falling objects near Earth, measured as 32 ft/s² or 9.8 m/s².

 What is gravitational acceleration?

200

This type of data consists of labels or categories, such as color or type.

What is categorical (qualitative) data?

200

This probability method is based on known outcomes, such as coin tosses or dice rolls.

What is theoretical probability?

200

In 2006, this Miami Heat shooting guard was named NBA Finals MVP after leading his team to the franchise’s first title.

Who is Dwyane Wade?

200

This 2005 ensemble drama shocked audiences by winning the Academy Award for Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain.

What is Crash?

300

This term describes a moving object on which gravity is the only force acting.

What is a projectile?

300

This measure of central tendency is the arithmetic average of a data set.

What is the mean?

300

These events do not affect each other’s outcomes, such as successive coin tosses.

What are independent events?

300

This quarterback led the New York Giants to a shocking upset over the previously undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.

Who is Eli Manning?

300

Martin Scorsese finally won his first Best Director Oscar for this 2006 crime thriller set in Boston.

What is The Departed?

400

This component of a projectile’s motion remains constant throughout its flight (ignoring air resistance).

What is horizontal velocity?

400

This measure of spread is found by subtracting the lowest value from the highest value in a data set.

What is the range?

400

This rule states that the probability of two independent events both occurring is found by multiplying their probabilities.

What is the AND (multiplication) rule?

400

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this swimmer won a record eight gold medals in a single Games.

Who is Michael Phelps?

400

Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for portraying the villain Anton Chigurh in this 2007 Best Picture winner.

What is No Country for Old Men?

500

This quantity defines the angle at which a projectile leaves its launch device relative to the horizontal.

What is the firing angle?

500

This statistic measures how much data values tend to vary from the mean and is calculated differently for samples versus populations.

What is standard deviation?

500

This theorem calculates a conditional probability by accounting for all ways an observed condition could occur.

What is Bayes’ Theorem?

500

In 2005, this tennis player claimed her tenth Grand Slam title by winning Wimbledon without dropping a set.

Who is Venus Williams?

500

Released in 2008, this superhero film featured Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning performance as the Joker.

What is The Dark Knight?

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