Halloween Markets
The expected total Halloween spending in 2023 in billions of dollars
12.2
The name of the first computer game that was created in 1961.
What is Spacewar?
This princess rode in a pumpkin that was transformed into a carriage
Cinderella
This self-driving company recently suspended all operations after losing its permits in California. (Hint: You've probably seen them freeze up on Rio Grande)
What is Cruise?
The square root of 666 to the closest integer
25.8 (26)
The number of years since the first Halloween
~2000
The person who coined the term "bug," inspired by the moth found in Relay 70 of Harvard’s Mark II computer.
Who is Grace Hopper?
The food group pumpkins belong to
Fruits
Last week the 10-yr Treasury Yield topped this value for the first time since 2007.
What is 5%
Michael Myers and 999 others are asked to guess a number between 1 and 100. The person who guesses the number closest to 1/2 of the mean guess will win the opportunity to murder the other 999. This is the number Freddy should guess to maximize his odds of winning.
1
The estimated consumer spending on Halloween candy this year, in billions of dollars
3.6
A full binary tree with 6 non leaf nodes will contain a maximum of this number of nodes.
What is 13 nodes?
The average price of a pumpkin in dollars
4.50 - 6.00
Chevron recently announced it was buying Hess Corporation for $53 Billion, greatly boosting its market share in this country.
What is Guyana?
John has 8 friends. He will invite 5 to his Halloween rager. However, two of his friends have beef and they refuse to attend together. This is the number of possible combinations of guests given this constraint.
36
The percent of haunted attractions operated by charities
80
A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
What is the Turing Test?
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California
US candy inflation percentage YoY from October 2022 to October 2023 (nearest whole number).
What is 13%.
The expected number of cards you need to draw until you see the first ace in a deck of 52 cards (no replacement)
10.6
The average number of Halloween house fires each year
770
What is the bigO of Java's Arrays.sort?
What is O(n log n)?
The weight of the largest pumpkin ever grown in lbs
2750 lbs
Fake engine parts from this distributor were found in the fleets of all major US carriers leading to the grounding of over 100 aircraft.
What is AOG Technics?
Suppose you are trading stocks, and each day the probability of making a profit is 3/5. If you trade for five consecutive days, what is the probability that you make a profit on exactly three of those days?
What is 864/3125?
Solution: Using the binomial probability formula, P(X=k)=(kn)pk(1−p)n−k, we can calculate when k is 3, n is 5, and p is 3/5.