Cummins History
Science GOATs
Trilogies
Said who?
Historic Rivalries
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The year Cummins was founded.
What is 1919?
100
1921 Physics Nobel Prize winner for explaining the Photoelectric Effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
"The originals are the best" said the Gen-X. "No, the prequels are the best" said the Millenials. "You both are tripping, sequels is life" said the Gen-Z[...]just give me a lightsaber.
What is Star Wars?
100
"Veni, Vidi, Vici".
Who is Julius Cesar?
100
One german and one english, but can't play favorites for the inventors of Calculus.
Who are Newton and Leibniz?
200
While Clessie and William G. Irwin were doing an engine boat demonstration in the Ohio River, they ran out of fuel...This "emergency fuel" kept the boat running.
What is Water?
200
Mostly remembered by his "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", when actually 50% - 60% of his work was in Theology.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
200
The third installment of this trilogy won all 11 nominations in the Academy Awards. To this day it holds the record with most awards at 17.
What is the Lord of the Rings?
200
"Be the change you want to see in the world".
Who is Gandhi?
200
Microsoft vs Apple.
Who are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?
300
Lyle Cummins got reprimanded by his father Clessie, after revealing to the press that this system component "sure helped" for only doing one stop in the Coast to Coast trip.
What is an auxiliary fuel tank?
300
A favorite principle from a Swiss Mathematician in Fluid Dynamics, can't be really used a lot in our industry since we deal with compressible flow.
"Who is Daniel Bernoulli?"
300
It was from the second installment that we got this memorable quote "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".
What is the Dark Knight Trilogy?
300
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap".
"Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?"
300
War of the currents.
Who are Tesla and Edison?
400
Clessie Cummins founded the company with the financial backing of a banker. His Middle Name.
What is Glanton?
400
Who is Leonard Euler?
400
It's iconic theme named "Brucia la terra" (My land bleeds) was interpreted by Andrea Bocelli and part of the video was recorded in Italy...should've been Sicily.
What is the Godfather Trilogy?
400
"It is not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, is what you know for sure that it just ain't so".
Who is Mark Twain?
400
An Italian and an Austrian Classical Composers whose rivalry was portrayed in a critically acclaimed movie from 1984.
Who are Mozart and Salieri?
500
It's Cummins Inc. very first engine ever produced.
What is HVID?
500
"GOAT" by winning the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1918 for developing a method to synthesize Ammonia. Such invention is the main factor of the human population exponential growth...but then he created weapons to harm humanity including Cyanide Gas, which was used by the Nazis in WWII.
Who is Fritz Haber?
500
The first installment was adapted into a Netflix show. We already have AI, when are we getting Sophons?
What is Remembrance of Earth's Past? (Dìqiú Wǎngshì; lit. 'Earth's Past' ).
500
"If you use your enemy to defeat your enemy, you will be strong and powerful wherever you go".
Who is Sun Tzu?
500
Brothers and Legendary founders of Rome, who were raised by a female wolf.
Who are Romulus and Remus?