Massachusetts
30!
To the "Max"
New York
Finance, Bro
100

Hocus Pocus is set in this Massachusetts city.

What is Salem?

100

This Canadian rapper turned 30 in 2016, the same year his song "One Dance" topped the charts.

Who is Drake?

100

This Dutch Formula 1 driver won his first World Championship in 2021.

Who is Max Verstappen?

100

New York State is bordered by this Great Lake to the northwest.

What is Lake Ontario?

100

This common measure of the average return on an investment over a period is found by summing returns and dividing by the number of periods.

What is the mean (or average) return?

200

The famous Boston Marathon starts and ends in this Massachusetts city and this famous landmark.

What are Hopkington and the Boston Central Library.

200

At 30, this basketball superstar won his third stright NBA championship with the Bulls in 1993.

Who is Michael Jordan?

200

Max is the loyal pup in this beloved Christmas movie.

What is How the Grinch Stole Christmas?

200

This is the most populous borough of New York City.

What is Brooklyn?

200

The ratio of a company’s debt to its equity is commonly referred to by this term, showing how much the company relies on borrowed money.

What is leverage (or debt-to-equity ratio)?

300

Basketball was invented in this Massachusetts town.

What is Springfield?

300

At 37, this golfer ended an 11-year drought by winning the Masters in 2019.

Who is Tiger Woods?

300

In game theory, this strategy minimizes the possible loss for a player while assuming the opponent plays optimally.

What is the minimax?

300

This New York City avenue runs 33 miles from Inwood in Manhattan all the way into the Bronx, making it the world’s longest street of its kind.

What is Broadway?

300

This term refers to a market condition where prices rise for a prolonged period, often accompanied by investor optimism.

What is a bull market?

400
The sports teams of MIT are known fittingly as this.

What are Engineers?

400

This beverage brand turned 30 in 1986, just in time for the New Coke fiasco.

What is Diet Coke?

400

In this 2001 Disney comedy, a middle schooler thinks he’s moving away and launches a prank war against his bullies, only to find out he’s not leaving after all.

What is Max Keeble’s Big Move?

400

The “Big Apple” nickname for NYC became popular in the 1920s thanks to coverage of this sport.

What is horse racing?

400

The statistical method that fits a line to a set of points to predict one variable from another is called this.

What is linear regression?

500

This many states refer to themselves as Commonwealths.

What is four?

Massachusetts, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia

500

This young senator didn't enter politics until his 30s, but at 34 became the youngest US President.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

500

In statistics, this is the method used to estimate parameters of a model by making the observed data most probable.

What is maximum likelihood estimation?

500

This Ithaca gorge features a series of cascades and pools, including the 115-foot Lucifer Falls, and is part of a state park named after a local businessman who donated the land.

What is Robert H. Treman State Park?

500

This statistical concept describes the likelihood of observing a result at least as extreme as the one in your sample, assuming the null hypothesis is true.

What is a p-value?

M
e
n
u