Halloween-Related History
This person is the author of the 1818 classic book "Frankenstein."
Who is Mary Shelley?
This is the term for this unethical behavior that hypothesize after the results are known
What is HARKing?
In a survey of over 15,000 people, this was voted to be the worst Halloween candy in 2023.
What are circus peanuts?
If you let a monkey hit the keys of a typewriter at random an infinite amount of times, eventually the monkey will type out the entire works of Shakespeare.
What is the infinite monkey theorem?
This movie features a clown that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children.
What is It?
This ancient Celtic festival is considered by many as the beginning or precursor to modern-day Halloween celebrations.
What is Samhain?
This person used to be a top food researcher at Cornell, ended up retracting 15 studies. (Ig Noble Prize for "Bottomless bowl")
Who is Brian Wansink?
This is the average retail price (in USD) of a pumpkin in 2023 (+/- $1).
What is $5.99? ($4.99-$6.99)
The variance of any unbiased estimator is at least the reciprocal of the Fisher information, under regularity conditions.
What is the Cramér–Rao bound?
These are the top 5 most popular Halloween costumes for pets in 2023; name 3 of them. (You earn points for each correct guess on the list).
What is a pumpkin, hot dog, bat, bumblebee, and spider?
This is the year that the classic Halloween TV special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" first aired. (+/- 2 years, double Jeopardy for the exact year).
What is 1966? (Acceptable answers 1964-1968).
These people said “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”?
Who are Benjamin Disraeli & Mark Twain?
This is the projected Halloween candy spending (in billions of USD) in 2023 (+/- 0.5).
What is 3.6? (3.1-4.1)
Any boundedly complete minimal sufficient statistic is independent of any ancillary statistic.
What is the Basu's theorem?
This place displays the skeleton of Old Coaly, whose ghost has been reportedly seen and heard at several hotspots around University Park campus by students.
What is HUB-Robeson Center?
This root vegetable is what the Irish and Scottish used to carve on Halloween before pumpkins.
What are turnips?
This person is a professor at Harvard business school who is getting accused of manipulating data over a decade.
Who is Francesca Gino?
This percent of Americans say they would consider purchasing a haunted house to live in (+/- 5%).
What is 57%? (52%-62%)
If the sum of the probabilities of a sequence of events is finite, then the probability that infinitely many of these events occur is 0.
What is the Borel-Cantelli lemma?
This movie tops Rotten Tomatoes' list of the Scariest Horror Movies Ever.
What is "The Exorcist"?
This is what early New Englanders used to do to protect their homes from evil spirits.
What is hiding shoes in walls?
Who is William Playfair?
This is the projected average expenditure per person on Halloween in 2023 (+/- $5).
What is $108? ($103-$113)
Any unbiased estimator that depends on the data only through a complete sufficient statistic is the unique best unbiased estimator of that parameter.
What is the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem?
This was the original title of Michael Jackson's famous song "Thriller."
What is "Starlight"?