Probability & Stats
Dinosaurs
Sounds Like a Deal
Pick a State
Think of the Children
Splattin' Latin
200
Statistically, a player's batting average is their measurement of skill in this sport.
What is baseball?
200
Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park made its claim to fame with a chase scene from this notorious beast.
What is the Tyrannosaurus Rex?
200
In this game show, a contestant is forced to decide between his earnings from a series of briefcases or the temptation from the banker's potentially higher offer.
What is Deal or no Deal?
200
The one state with a single syllable.
What is Maine?
200
This Stephen King novel begins with a 12-year-old preacher named Isaac commanding all kids in a Nebraska town to kill everyone over the age of 18.
What is Children of the Corn?
200
Written in a poem by Horace, encouraging individuals to live life to the fullest:
"Carpe diem."
What is "Seize the day"?
400
When an event is impossible, its probability is this value.
What is 0?
400
Archaeological evidence suggests this 3-horned dinosaur may have been the last to survive before extinction.
What is triceratops?
400
The 1867 purchase of this massive territory from Russia amounted to $7.2 million. But with an area of nearly 600,000 square miles, it equaled about 2 cents per acre.
What is Alaska?
400
One of two states that contain "mont" in their name.
What is Vermont or Montana?
400
This Massachusetts facility is ranked as the #1 best pediatric hospital in the United States.
What is Boston Children's Hospital?
400
The Delta Phi Epsilon sorority motto:
"Esse quam videri."
What is "To be, rather than to seem"?
600
A p-value less than 0.05 suggests that a data set is statistically significant, forcing the rejection of this type of hypothesis.
What is the null hypothesis?
600
NBA fans in Toronto cheer on a team represented by a speedy dinosaur of the late cretaceous period.
What are the Raptors?
600
In 2020, this Tampa Bay NFL team signed on GOAT quarterback Tom Brady to the roster. After a 2021 Superbowl victory, it's already proven to be a great deal.
Who are the Buccaneers?
600
One of two states that end in a silent "s".
What is Illinois or Arkansas?
600
This 2004 Christmas film cuts to the end credits with a score that sings, "Children, sleeping. Snow is softly falling".
What is The Polar Express?
600
All individuals are born without built-in mental content. Everyone learns as they live:
"Tabula rasa."
What is a "clean slate"?
800
It's the probability that a 1 or a 2 will face up when rolling a 6-sided die.
What is 1/3 or 33%?
800
The 90-foot diplodocus weighed 10 tons, 1/8 as much as some shorter dinosaurs because its bones were this.
What is hollow?
800
As a response to the Great Depression, the 3 "R"s of this 4-term president's "New Deal" included relief, recovery, and reform.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
800
One of three states with only four letters in their name.
What is Ohio, Iowa, or Utah?
800
This television channel is best known for hosting the Kids Choice Awards every March.
What is Nickelodeon?
800
Uttered by Roman emperor Julius Caesar after a short war with Pharnaces II of Pontus:
"Veni, vidi, vici."
What is "I came, I saw, I conquered"?
1000
It's the type of distribution shown below, centered on the sample's mean, separated by intervals equal to the standard deviation.
What is a normal distribution?
1000
The name of dinosaurs known as ornithopods tells us they had feet shaped like those of these creatures.
What are birds?
1000
This slave state was admitted to the union in 1820 while Maine was admitted as slave-free the same year. The compromise is named after it.
What is Missouri?
1000
One of the four "new" states.
What is NH, NJ, NY, NM?
1000
Besides James Polk, Warren Harding, and James Buchanan, one of the two other U.S. presidents that never had children. Both are featured on the face of a bill.
Who is George Washington or Andrew Jackson?
1000
Out in the field, this may be a helpful term:
"In situ."
What is "on-site" or "in the original place"?