Fwd: LL104 Match Day 2 -- Confirmation

4/6 vs Seif and I'll prob lose. 

Player: BrowningM

1. What mathematical term was coined by British statistician Karl Pearson in his 1894 lecture "The Scientific Aspect of Monte Carlo Roulette", and are the two words that fill in the blank in the following quote from the lecture: "[F]or every type of experiment there is a numerical quantity, depending partly on the chance of the single event succeeding, and partly on the total number of the trials of it, which we may term the [BLANK]"?
Correct Answer: STANDARD DEVIATION
Your Answer: p value
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

This is a bad miss but I don't think he described the standard deviation very well!

2. Hollywood legend and multiple-Oscar winner Rick Baker has been credited with several "below-the-line" roles in films. A typical one is the following, from 1981's An American Werewolf in London, in which one word is redacted: Special [REDACTED] effects designer and creator. What is that redacted word?
Correct Answer: MAKEUP
Your Answer: makeup
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Great movie 

3. What word is often used for the effigies burned in the UK on the evening of November 5, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot? It has come to be roughly synonymous with "men".
Correct Answer: GUYS
Your Answer: guy
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme 

4. "The Drive", "The Fumble", a controversial 1996 relocation drama, and a 17-year playoff drought beginning in 2003 are among the countless heartaches suffered by fans of what NFL franchise (location and team name required)?
Correct Answer: CLEVELAND BROWNS
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I don't know any American football trivia really 

5. What bird, a native of the northern hemisphere and member of the grouse family, has a name that begins with an unetymological consonant pair—as the birds's original Gaelic name just begins with the letter "T", and a Greek-influenced silent letter was added at the beginning in the 17th century?
Correct Answer: PTARMIGAN
Your Answer: ptarmigan
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Easy if you know 

6. Identify (in English) the lake, the largest of the European Alpine lakes, which straddles the border between southwest Switzerland and southeast France, and is known in French as Lac Léman?
Correct Answer: LAKE GENEVA
Your Answer: geneva
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

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