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Sample Calibration Test

|# |Question |90% Confidence Interval |

| | |Lower Bound |Upper Bound |

|1 |In 1938, a British steam locomotive set a new speed record by going how | | |

| |fast (mph)? | | |

|2 |In what year did Sir Isaac Newton publish the Universal Laws of | | |

| |Gravitation? | | |

|3 |How many inches long is a typical business card? | | |

|4 |The Internet was established as a military communications system in what | | |

| |year (then called “Arpanet”)? | | |

|5 |What year was William Shakespeare born? | | |

|6 |What is the air distance between New York and LA (miles)? | | |

|7 |What percentage of a square could be covered by a circle of the same | | |

| |width? | | |

|8 |How old was Charlie Chaplin when he died? | | |

|9 |How many days does it actually take the Moon to orbit the Earth? | | |

|10 |The TV show Gilligan’s Island first aired on what date? | | |

| |Statement |Answer |Confidence that you are |

| | |(Circle) |correct (Circle one) |

|1 |The ancient Romans were conquered by the ancient Greeks. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|2 |There is no species of three-humped camels | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|3 |A gallon of oil weighs less than a gallon of water. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|4 |Mars is always further away from Earth than Venus. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|5 |The Boston Red Sox won the first World Series. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|6 |Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|7 |"M" is one of the 3 most commonly used letters. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|8 |In 2002, the price of the average new desktop computer purchased was under| |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |$1,500. | |90% 100% |

|9 |Lyndon B Johnson was a governor before becoming vice president. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|10 |A kilogram is more than a pound. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

Calibration Survey for Ranges: A

|# |Question |90% Confidence Interval |

| | |Lower Bound |Upper Bound |

|1 |How many feet tall is the Hoover dam? | | |

|2 |How many inches long is a 20 dollar bill? | | |

|3 |What percentage of aluminum is recycled in the US? | | |

|4 |When was Elvis Presley born? | | |

|5 |What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen by weight? | | |

|6 |What is the latitude of New Orleans? Hint: Latitude is 0 at the equator | | |

| |and 90 at the North Pole. | | |

|7 |In 1913, the US military owned how many airplanes? | | |

|8 |The first European printing press was invented in what year? | | |

|9 |What percentage of all electricity consumed in US households was used by | | |

| |kitchen appliances in 2001 | | |

|10 |How many miles tall is Mt Everest? | | |

|11 |How long is Iraq’s border with Iran in kilometers? | | |

|12 |How many miles long is the Nile? | | |

|13 |In what year was Harvard founded? | | |

|14 |What is the wingspan (in feet) of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet? | | |

|15 |How many soldiers were in a Roman legion? | | |

|16 |What is the average temperature of the abyssal zone (where the oceans are | | |

| |more than 6,500 feet deep) in degrees F? | | |

|17 |How many feet long is the Space Shuttle Orbiter (excluding the external | | |

| |tank)? | | |

|18 |What year did Jules Verne publish "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"? | | |

|19 |How wide is the goal in field hockey (feet)? | | |

|20 |The Roman Coliseum held how many spectators? | | |

Calibration Survey for Ranges: B

|# |Question |90% Confidence Interval |

| | |Lower Bound |Upper Bound |

|1 |The first probe to land on Mars, Viking 1, landed there in what year? | | |

|2 |How old was the youngest person to fly into space? | | |

|3 |How many meters tall is the Sears Tower? | | |

|4 |What was the maximum altitude of the Breitling Orbiter 3, the first | | |

| |balloon to circumnavigate the globe, in miles? | | |

|5 |On average, what percentage of the total software development project | | |

| |effort is spent in design? | | |

|6 |How many people were permanently evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear | | |

| |power plant accident? | | |

|7 |How many feet long were the largest airships? | | |

|8 |How many miles is the flying distance from San Francisco to Honolulu? | | |

|9 |The fastest bird, the falcon, can fly at a speed of how many miles per | | |

| |hour in a dive? | | |

|10 |What year was the double helix structure of DNA discovered? | | |

|11 |How many yards wide is a football field? | | |

|12 |What was the percentage growth in Internet hosts from 1996 to 1997? | | |

|13 |How many calories are in 8 ounces of orange juice? | | |

|14 |How fast would you have to travel at sea level to break the sound barrier | | |

| |(mph)? | | |

|15 |How many years was Nelson Mandela in prison? | | |

|16 |What is the average daily calorie intake in developed countries? | | |

|17 |In 1994, how many nations were members of the United Nations? | | |

|18 |The Audubon Society was formed in the US in what year? | | |

|19 |How many feet high is the world’s highest waterfall (Angel Falls, | | |

| |Venezuela)? | | |

|20 |How deep beneath the sea was the Titanic found (miles)? | | |

Calibration Survey for Ranges: C

|# |Question |90% Confidence Interval |

| | |Lower Bound |Upper Bound |

|1 |What percentage of bronze is typically made of copper? | | |

|2 |How many countries have at least one McDonald’s? | | |

|3 |How many employees did ebay have in the first quarter of 2006 | | |

|4 |What was the population of Miami (within the city limits, not the entire | | |

| |metropolitan area) in 1990? | | |

|5 |How many casualties did the French suffer in the Battle of Waterloo? | | |

|6 |What is the range in miles of a Minuteman Missile? | | |

|7 |What is the percentage of IT jobs in the US were unfilled in 1997? | | |

|8 |The Supremes’ (with Diana Ross) song “Stop! In the Name of Love” was how | | |

| |long? (minutes, seconds) | | |

|9 |How many undergraduates attended Cambridge in 1990? | | |

|10 |If you could jump 50 feet straight up into the air, how many seconds would| | |

| |you be airborne before you landed? | | |

|11 |How many gallons are in a bushel (they are both measures of volume)? | | |

|12 |How many sovereign rulers has England had in the last thousand years? | | |

|13 |If the air temperature was 5 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) and the wind | | |

| |speed was 15 mph, what would the temperature adjusted for wind-chill be? | | |

|14 |Average cost of testing in software development is what percentage of | | |

| |total project costs? | | |

|15 |On average, if a software development project was projected to take 17 | | |

| |months, it actually takes how many months? | | |

|16 |The 2008 Ford Taurus SEL has how many horse power? | | |

|17 |How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics? | | |

|18 |In 2005, the average combined MPG for all US cars and light trucks on the | | |

| |road was how much? | | |

|19 |The average house in the United States uses how many gallons of water per | | |

| |day? | | |

|20 |What was the average price in the United States of a house sold in 2001? .| | |

Calibration Survey for Ranges: D

|# |Question |90% Confidence Interval |

| | |Lower Bound |Upper Bound |

|1 |The Airbus A380 provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class | | |

| |configuration. How many could it seat if all seats were economy class? | | |

|2 |New development is what percentage of US software costs? | | |

|3 |Human hair on the head grows at an average rate of how many inches per | | |

| |year? | | |

|4 |California became a state in what year? | | |

|5 |How many grams does the average business card weigh? | | |

|6 |How much did the Apollo Command Module (the capsule where the astronauts | | |

| |sat) weigh (pounds)? | | |

|7 |What is the average defects per thousand lines of code for U.S. commercial| | |

| |software? | | |

|8 |What was the total number of pages in the Greater Dallas Yellow pages in | | |

| |1998? | | |

|9 |The largest meteorite ever found on Earth weighed how many tons? | | |

|10 |Gone With The Wind won the Oscar for best picture in what year? | | |

|11 |What is the road mileage from Seattle to Atlanta? | | |

|12 |How many letters were in the Greek alphabet? | | |

|13 |What year did Walt Disney create Mickey Mouse? | | |

|14 |How many 20th century earthquakes world-wide measured above 8.0 on the | | |

| |Richter scale? | | |

|15 |How many plays did Shakespeare write? | | |

|16 |How many of the elements in the Periodic Table of chemistry were | | |

| |discovered in the 20th century? | | |

|17 |What year was Mozart born? | | |

|18 |The given name “Mathew” was the __th most common name for boys in the US | | |

| |in 2006. | | |

|19 |The average U.S. home has how many television sets? | | |

|20 |Construction of Hoover dam began in what year? | | |

Calibration Survey for Binary: A

| |Statement |Answer |Confidence that you are correct |

| | |True/False |(Circle one) |

|1 |The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road in the United States and it | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |ran from Chicago to San Francisco. | |90% 100% |

|2 |The Silk Road joined the two ancient kingdoms of China and Afghanistan. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|3 |More American homes have microwaves than telephones | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|4 |Doric is an architectural term for a shape of a roof | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|5 |The World Tourism Organization predicts that Europe will still be the most | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |popular tourist destination in 2020. | |90% 100% |

|6 |Germany was the second country to develop atomic weapons. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|7 |A hockey puck will fit in a golf hole. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|8 |The Sioux were one of the "plains" Indian tribes. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|9 |To a physicist, "plasma" is a type of rock. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|10 |The Hundred Years’ War was actually over a century long. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|11 |Most of the freshwater on Earth is in the polar ice caps. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|12 |The Academy Awards (Oscar's) began over a century ago. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|13 |There are less than 200 billionaires in the world. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|14 |In Excel a "^" means "take to the power of". | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|15 |The average annual salary of airline captains is over $150,000. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|16 |By 1997, Bill Gates was worth more than $10 billion. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|17 |Cannons were used in European warfare by the 11th century. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|18 |Anchorage is the capital of Alaska. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|19 |Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant are the four presidents' heads | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |sculpted into Mount Rushmore. | |90% 100% |

|20 |John Wiley & Sons is not the largest book publisher | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

Calibration Survey for Binary: B

| |Statement |Answer |Confidence that you are correct |

| | |True/False |(Circle one) |

|1 |Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" is larger than the Earth | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|2 |The Brooklyn Dodgers’ name was an abbreviation for “trolley car dodgers.” | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|3 |"Hypersonic" is faster than "subsonic" | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|4 |A "polygon" is 3-dimensional and a polyhedron is 2-dimensional | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|5 |A one-watt electric motor produces one horse power | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|6 |Chicago is more populous than Boston | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|7 |In 2005, Walmart sales dropped below $100 billion | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|8 |The Post-it Notes were invented by 3M | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|9 |Alfred Nobel whose fortune endows the Nobel Peace Prize made his fortune in| |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |oil and explosives. | |90% 100% |

|10 |A BTU is a measure of heat | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|11 |The winner of the First Indianapolis 500 clocked an average speed of under | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |100 mph. | |90% 100% |

|12 |Microsoft has more employees than IBM | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|13 |Romania borders Hungary | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|14 |Idaho is larger (area) than Iraq. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|15 |Casablanca is on the African continent | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|16 |The first manmade plastic was invented in the 19th century. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|17 |A chamois is an Alpine animal. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|18 |The base of pyramid is in the shape of a square | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|19 |Stonehenge is located on the main British Island. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|20 |Computer processors double in power every 3 months or less | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

Calibration Survey for Binary: C

| |Statement |Answer |Confidence that you are correct |

| | |True/False |(Circle one) |

|1 |The melting point of tin is higher than the melting point of aluminum. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|2 |In English, the word “quality” is more frequently used that the word | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |“speed”. | |90% 100% |

|3 |Any male pig is referred to as a hog. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|4 |California’s giant sequoia trees are named for an early 19th century leader| |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |of the Cherokee Indians. | |90% 100% |

|5 |The Model T was the first car produced by Henry Ford. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|6 |When rolling 2 dice, a roll of 7 is more likely than a 3. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|7 |No one has ever been reported to have been hit by any object that fell from| |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |space. | |90% 100% |

|8 |Sir Christopher Wren was a British anthropologist. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|9 |Pakistan does not border Russia. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|10 |The Navy won the first Army-Navy football game. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|11 |The paperback version of the book “The Da Vinci Code”, as of July 2007, | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon. | |90% 100% |

|12 |Italian has more words than any other language. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|13 |The month of August is named after a Greek god. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|14 |The deepest ocean trench is deeper than the Grand Canyon. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|15 |Abraham Lincoln was the first president born in a log cabin. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|16 |As of July of 2007, more people search Google for “Harry Potter” than | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |“Hillary Clinton” (according to GoogleTrends). | |90% 100% |

|17 |The population of Alabama is higher than the population of Arizona. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|18 |No category 5 hurricane hit the US in 2004. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|19 |The UK is among the top 10 largest economies in the world (by GDP). | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|20 |The movie Forest Gump has grossed more to date than E.T. The Extra | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |Terrestrial. | |90% 100% |

Calibration Survey for Binary: D

| |Statement |Answer |Confidence that you are correct |

| | |True/False |(Circle one) |

|1 |A 28 degrees Fahrenheit is colder than -15 degrees Celsius. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|2 |Alveoli are in the lungs. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|3 |The Berlin Wall, the barrier wall running through Berlin and separating | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |East and West Germany was actually less than 2 miles long. | |90% 100% |

|4 |Another name for aspirin is nitric acid. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|5 |Crop rotation refers to changing the direction of the planting rows. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|6 |America On Line purchased Netscape. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|7 |The “bulge” in the Battle of the Bulge was a break in the Allied Lines | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |caused by a German advance. | |90% 100% |

|8 |The former president Bill Clinton is taller than Jimmy Carter. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|9 |The TV series “Friends” never had a year when it had the number#1 Nielsen | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |ratings. | |90% 100% |

|10 |A Google search on “CNN” generates more hits than a search on “weather”. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|11 |Amazon lists more books under the category “Mystery & Thrillers” than the | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |category “Business & Investing”. | |90% 100% |

|12 |A pentagon has more sides than a hexagon. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|13 |In the English Language, the word “strategy” is used more often than the | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |word “celebrate”. | |90% 100% |

|14 |The Ford Taurus has sold more cars to date than the Honda Civic. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|15 |The world record long jump is longer than the world record pole vault is | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |high. | |90% 100% |

|16 |In the United States, more electricity is generated from coal than nuclear | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |power. | |90% 100% |

|17 |Changing altitude requires changing the “Yaw” of an aircraft. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|18 |“Quixotic” is the proper spelling of an actual word in English. | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| | | |90% 100% |

|19 |Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics, but not the music, for the American | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |National Anthem. | |90% 100% |

|20 |As of July of 2007, more people search Google for “economy” than “virus” | |50% 60% 70% 80% |

| |(according to GoogleTrends). | |90% 100% |

KEY Answers to sample calibration test

|# |Question |Answer |

|1 |In 1938, a British steam locomotive set a new speed record by going how fast (mph)? |126 |

|2 |In what year did Newton publish the universal laws of gravitation? |1685 |

|3 |How many inches long is a typical business card? |3.5 |

|4 |The Internet was established as a military communications system in what year (then called “Arpanet”)? |1969 |

|5 |What year was William Shakespeare born? |1564 |

|6 |What is the air distance between New York and LA (miles)? |2,451 |

|7 |What percentage of a square could be covered by a circle of the same width? |78.5% |

|8 |How old was Charlie Chaplin when he died? |88 |

|9 |How many days does it actually take the Moon to orbit the Earth? |27.32 |

|10 |The TV show Gilligan’s Island first aired on what date? |Sep 26, 1964|

| |Statement |Answer |

|1 |The ancient Romans were conquered by the ancient Greeks. |FALSE |

|2 |There is no species of three-humped camels |TRUE |

|3 |A gallon of oil weighs less than a gallon of water. |TRUE |

|4 |Mars is always further away from Earth than Venus. |FALSE |

|5 |The Boston Red Sox won the first World Series. |TRUE |

|6 |Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica. |TRUE |

|7 |"M" is one of the 3 most commonly used letters. |FALSE |

|8 |In 2002, the price of the average new desktop computer purchased was under $1,500. |TRUE |

|9 |Lyndon B Johnson was a governor before becoming vice president. |FALSE |

|10 |A kilogram is more than a pound. |TRUE |

KEY Calibration Survey for Ranges: A

|# |Question |Answer |

|1 |How many feet tall is the Hoover dam? |738 |

|2 |How many inches long is a 20 dollar bill? |6 3/16ths (6.1875) |

|3 |What percentage of aluminum is recycled in the US? |45% |

|4 |When was Elvis Presley born? |1935 |

|5 |What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen by weight? |21% |

|6 |What is the latitude of New Orleans? Hint: Latitude is 0 at the equator |31 |

| |and 90 at the North Pole. | |

|7 |In 1913, the US military owned how many airplanes? |23 |

|8 |The first European printing press was invented in what year? |1450 |

|9 |What percentage of all electricity consumed in US households was used by |26.7% |

| |kitchen appliances in 2001 | |

|10 |How many miles tall is Mt Everest? |5.5 |

|11 |How long is Iraq’s border with Iran in kilometers? |1458 |

|12 |How many miles long is the Nile? |4,160 |

|13 |In what year was Harvard founded? |1636 |

|14 |What is the wingspan (in feet) of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet? |196 |

|15 |How many soldiers were in a Roman legion? |6000 |

|16 |What is the average temperature of the abyssal zone (where the oceans are |39F |

| |more than 6,500 feet deep) in degrees F? | |

|17 |How many feet long is the Space Shuttle Orbiter (excluding the external |122 |

| |tank)? | |

|18 |What year did Jules Verne publish "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"? |1870 |

|19 |How wide is the goal in field hockey (feet)? |12 |

|20 |The Roman Coliseum held how many spectators? |50,000 |

KEY Calibration Survey for Ranges: B

|# |Question |Answer |

|1 |The first probe to land on Mars, Viking 1, landed there in what year? |1976 |

|2 |How old was the youngest person to fly into space? |26 |

|3 |How many meters tall is the Sears Tower? |443 |

|4 |What was the maximum altitude of the Breitling Orbiter 3, the first |6.9 |

| |balloon to circumnavigate the globe, in miles? | |

|5 |On average, what percentage of the total software development project |20% |

| |effort is spent in design? | |

|6 |How many people were permanently evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear |135,000 |

| |power plant accident? | |

|7 |How many feet long were the largest airships? |803 |

|8 |How many miles is the flying distance from San Francisco to Honolulu? |2394 |

|9 |The fastest bird, the falcon, can fly at a speed of how many miles per |150 |

| |hour in a dive? | |

|10 |What year was the double helix structure of DNA discovered? |1953 |

|11 |How many yards wide is a football field? |53.3 |

|12 |What was the percentage growth in Internet hosts from 1996 to 1997? |70% |

|13 |How many calories are in 8 ounces of orange juice? |120 |

|14 |How fast would you have to travel at sea level to break the sound barrier |760 |

| |(mph)? | |

|15 |How many years was Nelson Mandela in prison? |26 |

|16 |What is the average daily calorie intake in developed countries? |3,300 |

|17 |In 1994, how many nations were members of the United Nations? |184 |

|18 |The Audubon Society was formed in the US in what year? |1905 |

|19 |How many feet high is the world’s highest waterfall (Angel Falls, |3212 |

| |Venezuela)? | |

|20 |How deep beneath the sea was the Titanic found (miles)? |2.5 miles |

KEY Calibration Survey for Ranges: C

|# |Question |Answer |

|1 |What percentage of bronze is typically made of copper? |92% |

|2 |How many countries have at least one McDonald’s? |120 |

|3 |How many employees did ebay have in the first quarter of 2006 |11,600 |

|4 |What was the population of Miami (within the city limits, not the entire |358,500 |

| |metropolitan area) in 1990? | |

|5 |How many casualties did the French suffer in the Battle of Waterloo? |37000 |

|6 |What is the range in miles of a Minuteman Missile? |5000 |

|7 |What is the percentage of IT jobs in the US were unfilled in 1997? |10% |

|8 |The Supremes’ (with Diana Ross) song “Stop! In the Name of Love” was how |2 minutes, 52 |

| |long? (minutes, seconds) |seconds |

|9 |How many undergraduates attended Cambridge in 1990? |10,000 |

|10 |If you could jump 50 feet straight up into the air, how many seconds would|3.525 |

| |you be airborne before you landed? | |

|11 |How many gallons are in a bushel (they are both measures of volume)? |8 |

|12 |How many sovereign rulers has England had in the last thousand years? |47 |

|13 |If the air temperature was 5 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) and the wind |-25 F |

| |speed was 15 mph, what would the temperature adjusted for wind-chill be? | |

|14 |Average cost of testing in software development is what percentage of |25% |

| |total project costs? | |

|15 |On average, if a software development project was projected to take 17 |33 |

| |months, it actually takes how many months? | |

|16 |The 2008 Ford Taurus SEL has how many horse power? |263 |

|17 |How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics? |4 |

|18 |In 2005, the average combined MPG for all US cars and light trucks on the |19.8 |

| |road was how much? | |

|19 |The average house in the United States uses how many gallons of water per |350 |

| |day? | |

|20 |What was the average price in the United States of a house sold in 2001? .|$179,500 |

KEY Calibration Survey for Ranges: D

|# |Question |Answer |

|1 |The Airbus A380 provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class |853 |

| |configuration. How many could it seat if all seats were economy class? | |

|2 |New development is what percentage of US software costs? |41% |

|3 |Human hair on the head grows at an average rate of how many inches per |7.1 |

| |year? | |

|4 |California became a state in what year? |1850 |

|5 |How many grams does the average business card weigh? |1 |

|6 |How much did the Apollo Command Module (the capsule where the astronauts |12,980 |

| |sat) weigh (pounds)? | |

|7 |What is the average defects per thousand lines of code for U.S. commercial|50 |

| |software? | |

|8 |What was the total number of pages in the Greater Dallas Yellow pages in |2258 |

| |1998? | |

|9 |The largest meteorite ever found on Earth weighed how many tons? |60 |

|10 |Gone With The Wind won the Oscar for best picture in what year? |1939 |

|11 |What is the road mileage from Seattle to Atlanta? |2,756 |

|12 |How many letters were in the Greek alphabet? |24 |

|13 |What year did Walt Disney create Mickey Mouse? |1928 |

|14 |How many 20th century earthquakes world-wide measured above 8.0 on the |7 |

| |Richter scale? | |

|15 |How many plays did Shakespeare write? |37 |

|16 |How many of the elements in the Periodic Table of chemistry were |29 |

| |discovered in the 20th century? | |

|17 |What year was Mozart born? |1756 |

|18 |The given name “Mathew” was the __th most common name for boys in the US |5th |

| |in 2006. | |

|19 |The average U.S. home has how many television sets? |2.7 |

|20 |Construction of Hoover dam began in what year? |1931 |

KEY Calibration Survey for Binary: A

| |Statement |Answer |

| | |True/False |

|1 |The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road in the United States and it |FALSE |

| |ran from Chicago to San Francisco. | |

|2 |The Silk Road joined the two ancient kingdoms of China and Afghanistan. |FALSE |

|3 |More American homes have microwaves than telephones |FALSE |

|4 |Doric is an architectural term for a shape of a roof |FALSE |

|5 |In 2005, The World Tourism Organization predicts that Europe will still be |TRUE |

| |the most popular tourist destination in 2020. | |

|6 |Germany was the second country to develop atomic weapons. |FALSE |

|7 |A hockey puck will fit in a golf hole. |TRUE |

|8 |The Sioux were one of the "plains" Indian tribes. |TRUE |

|9 |To a physicist, "plasma" is a type of rock. |FALSE |

|10 |The Hundred Years’ War was actually over a century long. |TRUE |

|11 |Most of the freshwater on Earth is in the polar ice caps. |TRUE |

|12 |The Academy Awards (Oscar's) began over a century ago. |FALSE |

|13 |There are less than 200 billionaires in the world. |FALSE |

|14 |In Excel a "^" means "take to the power of". |TRUE |

|15 |The average annual salary of airline captains is over $150,000. |FALSE |

|16 |By 1997, Bill Gates was worth more than $10 billion. |TRUE |

|17 |Cannons were used in European warfare by the 11th century. |FALSE |

|18 |Anchorage is the capital of Alaska. |FALSE |

|19 |Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant are the four presidents' heads |FALSE |

| |sculpted into Mount Rushmore. | |

|20 |John Wiley & Sons is not the largest book publisher |TRUE |

KEY Calibration Survey for Binary: B

| |Statement |Answer |

| | |True/False |

|1 |Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" is larger than the Earth |TRUE |

|2 |The Brooklyn Dodgers’ name was an abbreviation for “trolley car dodgers.” |TRUE |

|3 |"Hypersonic" is faster than "subsonic" |TRUE |

|4 |A "polygon" is 3-dimensional and a polyhedron is 2-dimensional |FALSE |

|5 |A one-watt electric motor produces one horse power |FALSE |

|6 |Chicago is more populous than Boston |TRUE |

|7 |In 2005, Walmart sales dropped below $100 billion |FALSE |

|8 |The Post-it Notes were invented by 3M |TRUE |

|9 |Alfred Nobel whose fortune endows the Nobel Peace Prize made his fortune in|TRUE |

| |oil and explosives. | |

|10 |A BTU is a measure of heat |TRUE |

|11 |The winner of the First Indianapolis 500 clocked an average speed of under |TRUE |

| |100 mph. | |

|12 |Microsoft has more employees than IBM |FALSE |

|13 |Romania borders Hungary |TRUE |

|14 |Idaho is larger (area) than Iraq. |FALSE |

|15 |Casablanca is on the African continent |TRUE |

|16 |The first manmade plastic was invented in the 19th century. |TRUE |

|17 |A chamois is an Alpine animal. |TRUE |

|18 |The base of pyramid is in the shape of a square |TRUE |

|19 |Stonehenge is located on the main British Island. |TRUE |

|20 |Computer processors double in power every 3 months or less |FALSE |

KEY Calibration Survey for Binary: C

| |Statement |Answer |

| | |True/False |

|1 |The melting point of tin is higher than the melting point of aluminum. |FALSE |

|2 |In English, the word “quality” is more frequently used that the word |TRUE |

| |“speed”. | |

|3 |Any male pig is referred to as a hog. |FALSE |

|4 |California’s giant sequoia trees are named for an early 19th century leader|TRUE |

| |of the Cherokee Indians. | |

|5 |The Model T was the first car produced by Henry Ford. |FALSE |

|6 |When rolling 2 dice, a roll of 7 is more likely than a 3. |TRUE |

|7 |No one has ever been reported to have been hit by any object that fell from|FALSE |

| |space. | |

|8 |Sir Christopher Wren was a British anthropologist. |FALSE |

|9 |Pakistan does not border Russia. |TRUE |

|10 |The Navy won the first Army-Navy football game. |TRUE |

|11 |The paperback version of the book “The Da Vinci Code”, as of July 2007, |FALSE |

| |still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon. | |

|12 |Italian has more words than any other language. |FALSE |

|13 |The month of August is named after a Greek god. |FALSE |

|14 |The deepest ocean trench is deeper than the Grand Canyon. |TRUE |

|15 |Abraham Lincoln was the first president born in a log cabin. |FALSE |

|16 |As of July of 2007, more people search Google for “Harry Potter” than |TRUE |

| |“Hillary Clinton” (according to GoogleTrends). | |

|17 |The population of Alabama is higher than the population of Arizona. |FALSE |

|18 |No category 5 hurricane hit the US in 2004. |TRUE |

|19 |The UK is among the top 10 largest economies in the world (by GDP). |TRUE |

|20 |The movie Forest Gump has grossed more to date than E.T. The Extra |FALSE |

| |Terrestrial. | |

KEY Calibration Survey for Binary: D

| |Statement |Answer |

| | |True/False |

|1 |A 28 degrees Fahrenheit is colder than -15 degrees Celsius. |FALSE |

|2 |Alveoli are in the lungs. |TRUE |

|3 |The Berlin Wall, the barrier wall running through Berlin and separating |FALSE |

| |East and West Germany was actually less than 2 miles long. | |

|4 |Another name for aspirin is nitric acid. |FALSE |

|5 |Crop rotation refers to changing the direction of the planting rows. |FALSE |

|6 |America On Line purchased Netscape. |TRUE |

|7 |The “bulge” in the Battle of the Bulge was a break in the Allied Lines |TRUE |

| |caused by a German advance. | |

|8 |The former president Bill Clinton is taller than Jimmy Carter. |TRUE |

|9 |The TV series “Friends” never had a year when it had the number#1 Nielsen |FALSE |

| |ratings. | |

|10 |A Google search on “CNN” generates more hits than a search on “weather”. |FALSE |

|11 |Amazon lists more books under the category “Mystery & Thrillers” than the |FALSE |

| |category “Business & Investing”. | |

|12 |A pentagon has more sides than a hexagon. |FALSE |

|13 |In the English Language, the word “strategy” is used more often than the |TRUE |

| |word “celebrate”. | |

|14 |The Ford Taurus has sold more cars to date than the Honda Civic. |FALSE |

|15 |The world record long jump is longer than the world record pole vault is |TRUE |

| |high. | |

|16 |In the United States, more electricity is generated from coal than nuclear |TRUE |

| |power. | |

|17 |Changing altitude requires changing the “Yaw” of an aircraft. |FALSE |

|18 |“Quixotic” is the proper spelling of an actual word in English. |TRUE |

|19 |Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics, but not the music, for the American |TRUE |

| |National Anthem. | |

|20 |As of July of 2007, more people search Google for “economy” than “virus” |FALSE |

| |(according to GoogleTrends). | |

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