Actuarial
This distribution is commonly used to model the number of claims occurring in a fixed period of time and assumes the mean equals the variance.
Poisson Distribution
Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
What does “a cappella” mean
Sung without instrumental accompaniment
Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
Canada
In TVM, this quantity represents the accumulated value of $1 after n periods at interest rate i.
Accumulation factor -> (1+i)^n
What is the chemical element with the symbol Fe?
Iron
Which band wrote “Hey Jude”
The Beatles
Nintendo
Gen Z slang: If someone says “No cap,” they mean this.
“no lie / for real / I’m being honest”
This credibility method blends individual experience with overall experience using parameter often denoted "Z"
Buhlmann Credibility
What is the outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere called?
Exosphere
What is the musical term for gradually getting louder?
Crescendo
This war ended with the Treaty of Versailies.
WW1
Which fruit floats because it’s 25% air?
Apples
This is an example of shrinkage method
lasso, ridge, early stopping, dropout learning etc.
Jellyfish
In what decade did hip-hop originate?
The 1970s
This president fully ended the gold standard in US.
Richard Nixon
This 2008 financial instrument was widely criticized for bundling mortgage risk into structured products (full-name)
In reserving, this method estimates ultimate losses by applying development factors to reported losses.
Chain Ladder Method
Who first proposed the concept of contact lenses?
Leonardo da Vinci
In music theory, what interval is an octave (how many scale steps apart)?
8 scale degrees (8 notes apart)
This Canadian PM patriated the constitution in 1982.
Pierre Trudeau
What is "Equinophobia" the fear of?
Horses