Stats 101
A measure of centrality defined as the middle of an ordered list of data points.
What is median?
42 people were injured in Yamaguchi, a city in the southern part of this country's Chūgoku region, during monkey attacks starting on July 8, 2022.
What is Japan?
One of the largest turning points in WWI occurred when this country declared war on Germany following their return to unrestricted submarine warfare after the sinking of the Lusitania.
What is the United States?
It was likely the Ancient Babylonians that were the first to make this promise to oneself, a modern day New Years tradition.
What is a resolution?
Qvar, Consonance, Glaceon
Pokémon: Glaceon (Ice-Type Evolution of Eevee)
Medication: Qvar (asthma)
Literary Device: Consonance (repetition of a consonant sound)
It refers to the degree to which a pair of variables is related, often linearly.
What is correlation?
Police have been known to arm themselves with slingshots to deal with rowdy monkeys in Bangkok, this county's capital.
What is Thailand?
Spurred by the Tet Offensive and building anti-war sentiment during the late 1960s, the United States officially withdrew from this conflict in 1973.
What is the Vietnam War?
Many municipalities in the United States participate in this tradition, the most famous of which occurs in Times Square.
What is a Ball Drop? (or other object)
Geodon, Numel, Allegory
Pokémon: Numel (Evolves into Camerupt)
Medication: Geodon (antipsychotic)
Poetic Device: Allegory (using characters, events, etc. to represent abstract ideas or themes)
It's the average distance of a dataset from its mean.
What is standard deviation?
The deputy mayor of this city, India's capital, died in a 2007 monkey attack after falling off a balcony.
What is New Delhi?
The Battle of Gettysburg is known as the turning point in the American Civil War, taking place 30 miles southwest of Harrisburg, in this state.
What is Pennsylvania?
As with most celebrations, many people drink this beverage, which can only be produced in the namesake French region.
What is Champagne?
Cursola, Anaphora, Kisunla
Poetic Device: Anaphora (Repetition of a word/phrase)
The mean-symmetric probability distribution that is often used to simulate random variables.
Normal Distribution
(accept Gaussian Distribution or Bell Curve)
Several people were injured when wild monkeys attacked a village on this nation's eastern island of Sulawesi. It also controls Sumatra and a large portion of Borneo.
What is Indonesia?
The turning point in the pacific theatre of WW2 is often considered to be the battle for this island, perhaps named for its geographical position in the Pacific Ocean.
What is Midway Atoll?
Originating in Spain, it is customary to eat 12 of these during the countdown to the New Year.
What are grapes?
Grailse, Remoraid, Tmesis
Pokémon: Remoraid (Evolves into Octillery)
Medication: Grailse (For treating nerve pain)
Poetic Device: Tmesis (insertions into words for effect "Fan-bloody-tastic" if you're British and angry)
It's the probability of obtaining the observed results, assuming a null hypothesis.
What is p-value?
A university compensated students for food stolen by monkeys in Kaohsiung, on the southern coast of this island nation, governed from Taipei.
What is Taiwan?
A possible turning point in the early American Revolution, the capture of this fort by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold supplied cannons instrumental in ending the siege of Boston.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
In Italy, Spain, and many Latin American countries, people wear red ones for love, and yellow ones for fortune in the New Year.
What is underwear?
Caesura, Tazorac, Vibrava
Pokémon: Vibrava (Evolves into Flygon)
Medication: Tazorac (Treats acne and other skin conditions)
Poetic Device: Caesura (A pause in the middle of a line usually induced by some punctuation)