Sports
Engineering
General Knowledge
Iowa State
Sports Engineering
100

This is the official name of the trophy given to the winning team of the NBA Championship.

What is the Larry O'Brien trophy?

100

This law of nature states that the total force acting on an object is equal to the object's mass times it's acceleration.

What is Newton's 2nd Law?

100

This movie recently became the highest grossing film of all time. A title it also held after its initial release in 2019.

What is Avengers: Endgame

100

He is the current men's basketball coach of the Cyclones.

Who is T.J. Otzelberger?

100

It is how pitchers create spin for breaking balls.

What is creating shear force using special grips, wrist snaps, and release angles?

200

This sport is played on horseback and is commonly associated with the wealthy.

What is polo?

200

This German cathedral took over 600 years to be completed due to delays from wars, funding issues, and changing architectural styles

What is the Cologne Cathedral?

200

This man broke the record for most WWE Championships when he won his 17th in the main event of WrestleMania 41.

Who is John Cena?

200

He is the most recent Iowa State athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics.

Who is Tyrese Haliburton?

200

The first stadium to use artificial turf.

What is the Houston Astrodome?

300

It is the common name for the injury lateral epicondylitis.

What is tennis elbow?

300

This quantity is found when doing the cross product of the radius from a reference point and the mass times the velocity of an object.

What is angular momentum?

300
It is the current tallest building in the United States.

What is the One World Trade Center?

300
It is the current enrollment of students (grads and undergrads) at Iowa State. Must be within 2,000.

What is 30,772?

300

It is additional protection that the NFL uses to reduce the risk of concussions.

What is a guardian cap?

400

Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff broke a record when he threw this many passes in a game without an incompletion.

What is 18?

400
He is credited with the invention of alternating current.

Who is Nikola Tesla?

400
It is the date of the major stock market crash that kicked off the Great Depression. Also known as Black Thursday.

What is October 29, 1929

400

They were the original colors of Iowa State.

What are silver, gold, and black?

400
He is responsible for the earliest example of sports engineering when he studied the flight mechanics of a tennis ball.

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

500

He was the first African-American to play in the MLB.

Who is Moses Fleetwood Walker?

500

The moment of a system with a horizontal force of 5N to the right 5 m below the origin and a vertical force 3N down and 8 m to the right.

What is 1 N*m?

500

It is an important American history event that is depicted on the back of the 2-dollar bill.

What is the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

500

It was the responsibility of the Iowa State branch of the Manhattan Project.

What is producing pure uranium? (over 2 million pounds was produced)

500

It is a specific swimsuit made of material that drastically improves one's ability to swim quickly and was banned from use in the Olympics in 2010.

What is the LZR Racer?

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