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Into Great Movies
Starts with "C"
100
The temperatures (in oF) of 5 randomly selected children in a pediatrician’s office, recorded as {99, 101, 98, 102, 100}, is this type of data.
What is numerical continuous?
100
The expected value of the Binomial distribution is calculated using this formula.
What is E(X)=np ?
100
This is the actual name of "Baby Yoda" in The Mandalorian.
What is Grogu?
100
When calculating quartiles, this is the first step that should be taken with the data.
What is ordering from smallest to largest?
100
"Clever girl" and "Hold on to your butts" are just a couple of the well-known phrases from the 1993 Spielberg adaptation of this novel.
What is Jurassic Park?
100
This family member of corvids is considered one of the world's most intelligent birds and has been shown capable of using tools.
What is a crow?
200
If the mean is less than the median, then this is the skewness type.
What is negative / left skewness?
200
Given Z ~ N(0,1^2) this is P(-1.12<=Z<5.67)
What is 86.86%
200
A researcher, interested in the opinions of highly-educated people about a major political issue, randomly samples students on the Harvard campus as they are walking between classes. The researcher likely committed this type of sampling error.
What is selection bias?
200
When trying to visualize outliers, this is the best type of graph to use.
What is a boxplot?
200
Meryl Streep brought depth to the antagonistic editor of Runway magazine in the big screen (and arguably better) adaptation of this novel.
What is The Devil Wears Prada?
200
Sicily is the country of origin for this Italian pastry dessert.
What is a cannoli?
300
This adjective describes a sample of data used to estimate a target population.
What is representative?
300
If a discrete random variable X follows a Poisson distribution with the model parameter 8.2, then its expected value is this.
What is E(X)=8.2 ?
300
This country in eastern Africa is known for being the first to make the coffee bean and, today, for producing high-quality coffee.
What is Ethiopia?
300
This is the "box" in a boxplot.
What is the IQR or middle 50%?
300
The ROUSes, which stood for "Rodents Of Unusual Size," were found in fire swamps in this novel that can be considered comedy, drama, romance, and fantasy all wrapped into one.
What is The Princess Bride?
300
In Avatar the Last Airbender, this type of food stand was often destroyed throughout the series, much to the dismay of its owner.
What is cabbage?
400
Unlike the standard deviation, the variance does not tell us this about the spread relative to the mean.
What are units of measurement?
400
For any discrete distribution, this mathematical operation of all its probabilities is equal to 1.
What is the sum?
400
The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Massachusetts, occurred in front of Worcester City Hall in this year.
What is 1776?
400
When generating a histogram, this is the ideal number of bins to use.
What is dependent on context?
400
A teenage Shia LaBeouf, his first major movie role, starred in the Disney adaptation of this novel with characters such as Mr. Sir, Kissin' Kate Barlow, and Armpit.
What is Holes?
400
The capital of this country is Santiago.
What is Chile?
500
Given X~Poisson(3.8) it can be expected that X will vary +- this value in its units of measurement.
What is 1.95?
500
Given a discrete random variable X follows a Binomial distribution with the parameters n=24 and p=0.82, this is P(X>22).
What is 5.35%?
500
In curling, this is the name of where the stones need to be thrown for scoring points, as shown in the following image.
What is the house?
500
Given the following data, this value would be considered a mathematical outlier.
X={1.74, 1.12, 0.47, 1.27, 1.26, 2.89, 0.51, 0.83}
What is 2.89?
500
A light was shone on the contributions of Katherine Johnson, and other black female mathematicians, to NASA's space program in the 1960's in the big screen adaptation of this work of nonfiction.
What is Hidden Figures?
500
The male type of this camouflaging cephalopod can mimic females to attract mates without competition.
What is a cuttlefish?