High School Literature
Gambling*
Psychological Phenomena
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Math & NUMB3R5
200
In the classic Of Mice and Men, George and Lenny are traveling workers who aspire to make money and live a better lifestyle. Lenny is a very simple person, and only wants one thing in life, to live on a farm and pet these animals.
Rabbits
200
Not to be confused with pirates, gamblers can place this kind of bet, where they bet on multiple games/scenarios within the same bet.
Parlay
200
This phenomenon occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the number of people around, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress.
***Player's Choice***
1. Help out - Give lowest-scoring player 200 points to receive a bonus hint or block
2. Do nothing - Nothing happens
Bystander effect
200
Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
Shawshank Redemption
200
The longest side of a right tringle is known by this name.
Hypotenuse
400
The significance of the title of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is based around this scientific fact and its connection to the plot.
Paper catches fire at 451 degrees F
In the plot, books are outlawed and burned.
400
Though there are numerous variations of Poker, this 5-card combination is the highest possible hand.
Royal Flush (10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace of the same suit)
400
This phenomenon is a cognitive error identified in behavioral economics whereby people incorrectly believe that recent events will occur again soon. This tendency is irrational, as it obscures the true or objective probabilities of events occurring, leading people to make poor decisions.
Recency Bias
400
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Predator
400
This number is the only number whose letters are in a descending order (Z-->A
One
600
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of this many stories written by Geoffry Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded at Chaucer's magnum opus
24 Stories
600
Outside the United States, roulette wheels usually have 37 slots, numbered 0 to 36. Wheels in the US, however, have this many slots, attempting to add more balance to the game.
38 (0-37 with an additional 00 slot)
600
This phenomenon is our tendency to look back at an event that we could not predict at the time and think the outcome was easily predictable.
Hindsight Bias
600
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Jaws 3-D
600
Alcohol manufacturers will label alcohol with "Proof", indicating its alcohol percentage.
90 Proof liquor is what percent ABV?
***Player Event***
Too Drunk - Current Alcohol drinkers lose their lifelines
45%
800
In John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Owen Meany is short with an underdeveloped larynx. His dialogue is very unique, as it is printed in this style.
ALL CAPS
He sounds as though he is quietly shouting
800
Though most of the world uses either Decimal odds or Fractional odds, the US uses a system called American odds. The system uses a system where odds must be greater than 100 or less than -100.
What do the odds -140 mean?
You need to bet $140 to win $100.
800
This phenomenon is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not.
Survivorship Bias
800
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
***Player event***
You're a Perv - lose your lifelines
American Beauty
800
A typical American will spend an average of $12.50 in a single fast food visit. If you were to pay your bill in only nickels, how many nickels would you need?
250 Nickels
1000
In George Orwell's 1984, The Party, through their various means of investigating and spying on their citizens, is all-knowing. Some citizens, when arrested, are taken to a place called Room 101, which is used for punishment and torture.
What does the Party have in Room 101?
An individual's greatest fear.
(For Winston, it's rats)
1000
American businessman Jim McIngvale, most widely known by this nickname, built Gallery Furniture, a succesfull furniture retail chain based in Houston, Texas. The Texas furniture kingpin has also broken gambling records, including winning $75 million in the largest payout in sports betting history.
Mattress Mack
1000
This is a psychological phenomenon that has to do with your eyes and your ears (and how they get confused) when perceiving speech. It happens when your brain associates the hearing part of one sound and pairs it with the visual appearance of another sound being spoken, which leads to the brain perceiving a nonexistent third sound.
The McGurk Effect
1000
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Life
1000
Though marketed for both adults and kids, a classic 3x3x3 Rubik's cube has this many possible combinations (Answer must be within 3 Quintillion).
43 252 003 274 489 856 000
(43 Quintillion)