General Knowledge
What can't you eat if you have celiac disease?
Gluten
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Pencil Lead
The University of Michigan was founded in this Year
What is the year 1817?
If you have cryophobia, what are you afraid of?
Ice or Cold
How much data is within 2 SD of the mean in a normal distribution?
95%
What is the spiciest chilli in the world?
The Carolina Reaper
What word has three double letters in a row?
Bookkeeper
This singer was well known for her theatrical performances in the 1980s and attended the University of Michigan
Who is Madonna?
As of May 2024, who has the most Instagram followers?
Cristiano Ronaldo
What is the formula for computing Z score?
(X - Xbar) / SD
How many bones are in an elephants trunk?
Zero
What is unusual about the following words: revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?
If you put the first letter of each word at the end instead, it will spell the same word backward.
The University currently has this many NCAA division 1 teams
What is 29 NCAA Division 1 teams?
Without using a calculator, what is 30% of 546? (You can round up to avoid decimal points)
164 (or 163.8 to be exact)
Which programming languages are most widely used by data scientists?
Python, R and SQL
Which playground game used to be an Olympic sport up until 1920? (think rope)
Tug of War
Can you name the three playing cards that have been place in a row using the following clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade.
Ace of diamonds, king of hearts and two of spades.
The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in this year.
What is the year 1841?
How many time zones are there in Russia?
11
In machine learning, what is the primary difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?
Supervised learning involves data that has been labeled and classified, while unsupervised learning data is unlabeled and unclassified.
What is Usain Bolt's 100m sprint record?
9.58 seconds
What is unique about the number 8,549,176,320?
Each number, zero through nine, is listed in alphabetical order.
The English translation of the University Motto.
What is "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"?
What month of which year was the first iPhone released? (bonus if you know the day)
June 2007 (29th)
What is the difference between error and residual?
Error is the difference between the observed value and its theoretical value. Often it is the unobserved value generated by the DGP (Data Generating Process)
Residual is the difference between the observed value and the predicted value generated from a model.