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100

 This professor at UBC used to be the deputy governor of the Bank of Canada?

Who is Paul Beaudry 

100

This fundamental theorem states that the distribution of sample means approaches a normal distribution as the sample size increases, regardless of the population’s distribution.

What is central limit theorem

100

The number of bones in the human body

What is 206?

100

The number of elements are on the periodic table

What is 118?

100

Sparkling wine sold under the name Champagne must come from this region in Northeast France

What is Champagne ?

200

The year IONA journal founded

2016

200

This type of regression model, used for binary dependent variables, assumes that the error term follows a normal distribution, and is often compared to the logit model

What is probit regression?

200

This animal is a cross between a male horse and a female donkey

What is a Hinny?

200

The amount of electrons in the oxygen atom

What is 8?

200

The American poet Hilda Doolittle used this 2-letter pen name

What is H.D?

300

This professor served as the chair of the BC Basic Income Panel

Who is David Green?

300

Difference-in-differences requires which assumption to hold?

What is common/parallel trends assumption

300

This city is the capital of Iceland

What is Reykjavík?

300

The smallest known building blocks of atomic structures are

What are Quarks and Leptons?

300

This gemstone is basically an onyx with alternating bands of sard & other minerals

What is Sardonyx?

400

The one who wrote the faculty forward for the most recent volume of the IONA journal

Who is Mauricio Drelichman?

400

This economist is known for his work in using instrumental variables to estimate causal relationships, particularly with his influential paper on the returns to education

Who is Joshua Angrist?

400

In 2011, who was the most recent country to join the UN

What is South Sudan?

400

The number of real numbers between 0 and 1

What is infinity?

400

The town that became Orlando Florida was founded in 1850 by Aaron Jernigan & was given this 1-word name

What is Jernigan?

500

This professor at UBC has been featured on Planet Money

Who is Reka Juahsz?

500

This economist developed the theory of taste-based discrimination, which suggests that employers, employees, or customers may discriminate against certain groups due to personal biases, even at a cost to profitability

Who is Gary Becker? 

500

This is the national dish of England

What is Chicken Tikka Masala?

500

The Millennium Prize Problems are seven well-known complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. The only Millennium prize problem to ever have been solved is

What is the Poincare conjecture?

500

You can read a variety of articles about all aspects of show business in this trade paper established in 1905

What is Variety?

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