Calibration Test: Short A

# / Question / 90% Confidence Interval
Lower Bound / Upper Bound
1 / In 1938, a British steam locomotive set a new speed record by going how fast (kph)?
2 / In what year did Newton publish the universal laws of gravitation?
3 / How many centimeters 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 (km)?
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 much does my book How to Measure Anything, weigh (kg)?
10 / The TV show Gilligan’s Island first aired on what date?
Statement / Answer (True/ False) / Confidence that you are 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 $1,500. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
9 / The movie Titanic still holds the record for first six weeks of box office receipts. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
10 / A kilogram is more than a pound. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test: Short B

90% Confidence Interval
# / Question / Lower Bound / Upper Bound
1 / How many countries are in NATO?
2 / What is the average temperature in Boston, MA in April?
3 / On behalf of the United States, President Cleveland accepted the Statue of Liberty as a gift from France in what year?
4 / What were the total number of Gold medals won by the USA in the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
5 / What is the percentage of Americans without health insurance?
6 / The Earth is 93 million miles from the sun. How far is Venus from the sun?
7 / What year did Gunsmoke premier on television?
8 / How many billions did Microsoft make in revenue in 2008?
9 / How many stories tall is the Empire State Building?
10 / What is the weekly food expense for the average US household with children under 18 – PER PERSON?
Statement / Answer (True/ False) / Confidence that you are correct (Circle one)
1 / The percentage of households which own their homes is higher in North Carolina than New York. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
2 / In high humidity, baseballs tend to be hit further. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
3 / Alpha Centuri is closer than Andromeda. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
4 / When Churchill said “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”, he was referring to the soldiers of D-day. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
5 / The US has made it to the World Cup in soccer. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
6 / Adjusted for inflation, Hurricane Andrew was more costly than Hurricane Katrina. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
7 / Nuclear fusion involves splitting helium into hydrogen. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
8 / Barnes & Noble sells more books annually than Borders. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
9 / President John Adams was a lawyer. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
10 / The Yangtze river is the longest river in Asia. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test: Short C

90% Confidence Interval
# / Question / Lower Bound / Upper Bound
1 / What year was the first Presidential radio broadcast from the Whitehouse?
2 / What is the population of the metropolitan area of Kansas City, MO?
3 / What year did South Dakota become a state?
4 / As of 2008, what was the population of China?
5 / In the US, how many dentists are there per 100,000 residents, on average?
6 / Of all US energy needs (electricity, heat, transportation, etc.) what percentage is supplied by coal?
7 / How many miles to the gallon does an M-1 Abrams tank get?
8 / The singer Madonna was born in what year?
9 / What percentage of US citizens over the age of 68 use personal computers (directly, not as a part of some other product or service)?
10 / In the standard configuration, the Airbus A380 seats how many passengers?
Statement / Answer (True/ False) / Confidence that you are correct (Circle one)
1 / The USS Enterprise is a currently active US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
2 / Prior to 2008, there were fewer than 30 times when the Dow Jones Industrial average fell more than 5% in a single day. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
3 / The capital of Wisconsin is Madison. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
4 / Germany is more populous than Mexico. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
5 / There are more electrical engineers in the US than actuaries. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
6 / Titan is a moon of Mars. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
7 / The first passenger carrying hot-air balloon was heated with natural gas. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
8 / There were more Medal of Honor winners in the Civil War than any other war in US history. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
9 / Aluminum is the lightest metal. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
10 / O’Hare International Airport is no longer the world’s busiest airport. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test for Ranges: 20A

# / 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 Testfor Ranges: 20B

# / 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 (Willis) 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 (AngelFalls, Venezuela)?
20 / How deep beneath the sea was the Titanic found (miles)?

Calibration Test for Ranges: 20C

# / Question / 90% Confidence Interval
Lower Bound / Upper Bound
1 / What is the high school graduation rate in New Hampshire?
2 / How many countries have at least one McDonald’s?
3 / How many employees did ebay have in the first quarter of 2006
4 / According to the Auto Affordability Index, what was the average price of a new car in 2008?
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 monarchs 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 much 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 Test for Ranges: 20D

# / 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 / What is the average age of a woman giving birth to her first child in Australia?
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 Test for Binary: 20A

Statement / Answer True/False / Confidence that you are correct (Circle one)
1 / The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road in the United States and it ran from Chicago to San Francisco. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
2 / Gold is denser than iron. / 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 popular tourist destination in 2020. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 sculpted into Mount Rushmore. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
20 / John Wiley & Sons is not the largest book publisher. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test for Binary: 20B

Statement / Answer True/False / Confidence that you are correct (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 oil and explosives. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 100 mph. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 BritishIsland. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
20 / Computer processors double in power every 3 months or less. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test for Binary: 20C

Statement / Answer True/False / Confidence that you are correct (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 “speed”. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 of the Cherokee Indians. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 space. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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, still ranks in the top 500 bestselling books on Amazon. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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%
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16 / As of July of 2007, more people search Google for “Harry Potter” than “Hillary Clinton” (according to GoogleTrends). / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 Terrestrial. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test for Binary: 20D

Statement / Answer True/False / Confidence that you are correct (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 East and West Germany was actually less than 2 miles long. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 caused by a German advance. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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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 ratings. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 category “Business & Investing”. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 word “celebrate”. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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 high. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
16 / In the United States, more electricity is generated from coal than nuclear power. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%
17 / Changing altitude requires changing the “Yaw” of an aircraft. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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18 / “Quixotic” is the proper spelling of an actual word in English. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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19 / Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics, but not the music, for the American National Anthem. / 50% 60% 70% 80%
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20 / As of July of 2007, more people search Google for “economy” than “virus” (according to GoogleTrends). / 50% 60% 70% 80%
90% 100%

Calibration Test: Short A KEY

# / Question / Answer
1 / In 1938, a British steam locomotive set a new speed record by going how fast (kph)? / 203
2 / In what year did Newton publish the universal laws of gravitation? / 1685
3 / How many centimeters long is a typical business card? / 8.9
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 (km)? / 3,944
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 much does my book How to Measure Anything, weigh (kg)? / 0.56
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 in English. / FALSE
8 / In 2002, the price of the average new desktop computer purchased was under $1,500. / TRUE
9 / The movie Titanic still holds the record for first six weeks of box office receipts. / FALSE
10 / A kilogram is more than a pound. / TRUE

Calibration Test: Short B KEY