Purdue History
The Other Fishers
From Stats 101
"Stat" in the Community
Descriptive Statistics
100
President of the University from 2012-2022, namesake of the business school.
Who is Mitch Daniels?
100
The "Grizzly" and Polar varieties of this animal rely on fish for a large part of their diet.
What is bear?
100
A popular statistics programming language. Also the 18th letter of the alphabet.
What is R?
100
Indiana, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ohio...
What is state?
100
The average number of children in US households last census. Rounded to the nearest whole number.
What is 2?
200
The university is named after this person.
Who is John Purdue?
200
According to almost every source, this country accounts for over a third of the world's fish production.
What is China?
200
Mean, median, ______. As repeated in first year statistics courses.
What is mode?
200
The home of Texas A&M. College _______.
What is station?
200
This is the smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
300
After destruction by fire in 1984, this historic campus building was built "one brick higher".
What is Heavilon Hall?
300
This "royal" bird can commonly be found at celery bog.
What is Kingfisher?
300
Standard deviation multiplied by the standard deviation.
What is variance?
300
Lacking in motion, movement, or change. Also a common class in Engineering Departments.
What is static?
300
This is the tallest building in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
400
The mythical creature depicted on the original university seal.
What is a griffin?
400
A book by Ernest Hemingway, an avid fisher himself, about an old man fishing in the sea.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
400
A common term in first year stats courses. Defined by Oxford as "a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system".
What is outlier?
400
A large parcel of land under single ownership, which generates income for its owner.
What is an estate?
400
This is the most common blood type letter in the world according to the Red Cross.
What is O?
500
The year Purdue was founded.
What is 1869?
500
Ronald Fisher's daughter Joan married a famous statistician with this shapely last name.
What is Box?
500
The "BFF" conference in Indianapolis this past year featured Bayesian, Frequentist, and this alternative philosophy to statistics as its namesake.
What is Fiducial?
500
Return to a position once held.
What is reinstate?
500
Median US household income from the latest census. Rounded to the nearest ten-thousand.
What is $80,000?