Random Civil Trivia
Water, cement, and aggregate
This tourist spot in a famous West Coast city once held the record for the longest suspension bridge in the world
Golden Gate Bridge
Commonly used nickname for London’s underground system
Tube
The current tallest building in the world
Burj Khalifa
This company was responsible for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and also invented the term 'carbon footprint' as part of a marketing stunt
BP :(((
What is the professional society for Civil Engineers?
ASCE!
This country is home to the longest continuous bridge in the world
China
This city was the first in the US (and second internationally) to get a metro system, beginning operations just before it hosted the World’s Fair in 1893 (Chicago, New York, Washington, St. Louis)
Chicago
Architect of the Guggenheim and Fallingwater
The Hoover Dam was completed in 1936 on this river
Colorado River
What is the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world?
The Pantheon!
Tower Bridge
Although Tokyo has three separate subway systems that combined have the most ridership in the world, this Chinese city has the most popular individual subway system (Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai)
Shanghai
Year that construction began on the empire state building (to the nearest 10)
1930
Number of superfund sites in the US (to the nearest hundred)
1300
Who is the Rice Civil Engineering Department Head?
Dr. Jamie Padgett!
This caused a portion of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida to collapse in 1980
A ship collided with the bridge
To the nearest hundred, the New York Metro has this many stations
~400
Name of the tallest building in Texas (and Houston)!
JP Morgan Chase Tower
Water purification process that uses a partially permeable membrane to separate ions, unwanted molecules and larger particles from drinking water
Reverse Osmosis
How many Rice Civil Engineering faculty are College Magisters?
Two! (Leonardo at Baker and Lauren at Hanszen)
The longest bridge over water in the world cuts straight across a lake in this US state
Louisiana
This city is home to the most dangerous highway in the United States
Houston :)
This city is home to the Millennium tilting tower
San Francisco
Number of inches of rain that Houston got during Hurricane Harvey (to the nearest 10)
60