Statistics Saturday: Fifteen Questions ‘Cleveland’ Is A Incorrect Answer To

• What is the capital of Ohio?
• What was, historically, the capital of the Ohio Territory?
• What is the largest city to border a Great Lake?
• Where’s the Cedar Point amusement park?
• How are you today?
• Did you know psoriasis can get into your ear? How does that make sense?
• Are the Kinks getting back together?
• What makes our new Terms of Service so all-fired different from the old Terms of Service that it was worth sending you a new Terms of Service to pretend to read?
• Is there going to be weather tomorrow?
• What’s the seat of Hamilton County, Ohio?
• Back in the early 20th century when there were “traction companies” running trolley cars all along city and even suburban streets it’s … like … they were transmitting electric power for cars along overhead lines, right? It’s not like they were running gigantic ropes and pulleys dragging things through town? Because that couldn’t possibly work, but “traction” seems like a weird name for “streetcar electric power”, right?
• Where was Case Western Reserve University originally located?
• Which United States Vice-President swore his oath of office in Cuba?
• What’s the name of your Chicago cover band?
• Yes, but did you like the movie?

Reference: Science From Your Airplane Window, Elizabeth A Wood. “Cleveland” was the name of your friend from college that you never really lost touch with but never talk to either’s Chicago cover band.

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In what way is Iowa part of the “Great Lakes Region”? Is there even a square foot of Iowa that drains into anything that touches a Great Lake? (No.) The heck, Mapping in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region? Your tales of how 1940s Iowans imagined telling Martians how great the place was and also write poetic odes to the state are fine and all that but if “touches a state that’s actually connected to a Great Lake” puts something in the Great Lakes region then Vermont is in the Great Lakes region for crying out loud. And they’re not. They have a pretty darned good Lake but no. The heck, people?

Yeah, this took me a while to work out but I never said I was on the debate team back in high school, now did I? Also I wasn’t. I was on the physics team. We didn’t have to deal with Iowa or any Great Lake.