A pioneer of the modern electronics industry and a
mentor to Steve Jobs, he was paranoid enough to
survive after getting his ChE PhD at UC Berkeley.
Who is Who is Andrew Grove? (former
CEO of Intel)
100
The Europeans were among the first to wage biological
warfare during the 18th century by infecting blankets
donated to American Indians with this disease
What is smallpox?
100
A Swiss physicist known for his application of math to
fluid mechanics, his “signature” principle describes the
behavior of a curve ball and an airplane wing
Who is (Daniel) Bernoulli?
100
This relates work, heat, and flow to the internal, kinetic, and potential energies of a system.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
100
Before embarking on an acting career, he was a rapper named Marky Mark.
Who is Mark Whalberg?
200
Now working at Apple, this MS ChE from Princeton
was the first African American woman to serve as
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Who is Lisa Jackson?
200
Chemical weapons were first used on a widespread
basis during this global conflict, before the nations of
the world banned them through the Geneva Protocol
What is World War 1?
200
A Penn State professor whose continuous distillation
equation is used to calculate the minimum number of
trays for separation of a binary stream at total reflux
Who is (Merrell) Fenske?
200
Mathematical expressions that relate thermodynamic variables such as P, V, and T to their derivatives.
What is an equation of state?
200
A highly popular sitcom in the 90s, it was "a show about nothing."
What is Seinfeld?
300
This Swedish-born action hero got his PhD in ChE from
the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia but he is
best known as Russian boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV
Who is Dolph Lundgren?
300
The first chemical weapon used effectively in battle was
this gas, which burns and destroys lung tissue, and can
be made from a common kitchen condiment
What is chlorine gas? (Can be made from table salt)
300
Their equations describe the motion of viscous flow
from applying Newton's second law to fluid motion,
and are now used extensively in video game
programming
Who are (Claude Louis) Navier and (George Gabriel) Stokes?
(Navier-Stokes equations)
300
Mathematical expression that refers to the departure of a real fluid property to the same ideal gas property at the same T and P.
What is a departure function?
300
This singer renamed herself "Sasha Fierce" for a 2008 double album.
Who is Beyonce?
400
This American prop comedian, known for smashing
watermelons on-stage with his Sledge-O-Matic, got his
ChE degree at the University of South Florida
Who is Gallagher?
400
In 2001, letters containing spores of this biological agent
were mailed to news media offices and two U.S.
Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others
What is anthrax?
400
His law of heat conduction states the rate of heat
transfer is a function of temperature gradient and area,
and he also first described the Greenhouse Effect
Who is (Jean-Baptiste Joseph) Fourier?
400
The parameter used to apply Raoult's Law to non-ideal systems.
What is the activity coefficient?
400
A famous electronic duo from France.
What is Daft Punk?
500
With a trademark mole above her upper lip, this high
school valedictorian studied ChE for only a quarter at
Northwestern before launching her supermodel career
Who is Cindy Crawford?
500
Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese cult now listed as a terrorist
group, gained notoriety in 1995 when it carried out a
Tokyo subway attack killing 12 people with this gas
What is sarin gas?
500
Another fluid dynamics expert, his decomposition of
the Navier-Stokes equation leads to an “averaged”
equation used to describe turbulent flow
Who is (Osborne) Reynolds?
500
A thermodynamic property of a real gas that, if substituted for partial pressure in the equations for an ideal gas, gives equations applicable to the real gas.
What is fugacity?
500
He was the singer of the American post-hardcore band From First To Last before embarking on a career in electronic music.