National Parks
Statistics
History of Massachusetts
Marine Life
Books You Probably Read In School
Potpourri
100
This is the only National Park in New England.
What is Acadia?
100
This is a measure of central tendency and indicates where data is balanced.
What is the mean?
100
This university is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
What is Harvard?
100
This critically endangered whale species is often observed off the coast of Massachusetts and is one of the rarest whales in the world.
What is the northern right whale?
100
This story involves a group of boys stranded on an island after a plane crash and the anarchy that ensues.
What is Lord of the Flies?
100
Roughly 70% of this is consumed at home, while the remaining 30% is eaten at theaters, stadiums, and other venues.
What is popcorn?
200
This is the most visited park in the United States.
What is Yellowstone?
200
This test is commonly used for determining if the underlying populations for two samples are likely to differ.
What is a t-test?
200
Massachusetts was one of the original of these colonies.
What is thirteen?
200
These tiny floating organisms produce most of the Earth’s oxygen.
What are phytoplankton?
200
The protagonist spent most of this novel in a lifeboat with a tiger (or did he?).
What is Life of Pi?
200
In 1930, this cookie was "accidentally" created by Ruth Wakefield while baking for guests at the Toll House Inn.
What is chocolate chip?
300
Decorating the Utah license plates, Delicate Arch, shown above, is found in this park.
What is Arches?
300
This well-known theorem states "as the sample size increases, the sampling distribution of the mean approaches a normal distribution, regardless of the population's underlying distribution."
What is the Central Limit Theorem?
300
This state was originally part of Massachusetts and separated to become its own state in 1820.
What is Maine?
300
This fish inflates its body to defend itself from predators, not just for funsies.
What is a pufferfish?
300
The totalitarian ruler in this dystopian novel is the inspiration behind the reality show "Big Brother."
What is 1984?
300
Cats are considered to be crepuscular animals, which means they are most active during these times.
What are dawn and dusk?
400
This park has had the highest recorded air temperature on Earth.
What is Death Valley?
400
This does not the mean the same as accepting the alternative hypothesis.
What is rejecting the null hypothesis?
400
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was originally dominated by members of this Protestant group.
Who are the Puritans?
400
This deep-sea fish is known for a glowing lure attached to its head for catching its food.
What is an angler fish?
400
This novel, by Elie Wiesel, details his harrowing survival in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
What is Night?
400
This is an alloy of copper and zinc.
What is brass?
500
The mountain goat is considered to be the mascot of this park, located in Montana.
What is Glacier?
500
This is the formula for a simple linear regression model.
What is y=\beta_0+\beta_1x+\epsilon ?
500
In 1919, an industrial disaster in Boston sent a massive wave of this through the city streets.
What is molasses?
500
This symbiotic relationship allows clownfish to live safely among the stinging tentacles of sea anemones.
What is mutualism?
500
This Pulitzer prize-winning novel chronicles the journey of Oklahoma tenant farmers forced to migrate to California during the 1930's Dust Bowl and Great Depression.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
500
Repeated Measures are just a special variation of this type of design.
What is split-plot?
600
The namesake of this park can be seen pictured above.
What is Saguaro?
600
This is the test we would use to solve the following problem:
A pharmaceutical researcher wants to know whether there is a difference in the effectiveness between Tylenol and Advil for reducing headache pain. The researcher randomly selects 40 people who experience frequent headaches. She assigns 20 people to take 200 mg of Tylenol, and the other 20 people to take 200 mg of Advil. She has each person rate the severity of their headache “before” and “after” taking the medicine, then subtracts the “after” from “before.” Negative values indicate a pain reduction.
What is a two-sample t-test?
600
The first battles of the American Revolution were fought in these two Massachusetts towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
600
The twilight zone of the ocean is also known by this scientific name.
What is the mesopelagic zone?
600
James by Percival Everett was a 2024 retelling of this 1884 Mark Twain novel from the slave Jim's point of view.
What is The Tales of Huckleberry Finn?
600
Annoyingly, in TV shows and movies, the call often used for an eagle is that of this raptor shown.
What is a red-tailed hawk?