World History
The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The art movement known for distorted, dreamlike imagery, led by artists like Salvador Dalí.
What is Surrealism?
The tendency of a material to return to its original shape after deformation is called this.
What is elasticity?
FrESCO stands for this.
What is the Freshman Engineering Student Council at Omaha?
The Beatles originated in this English city.
What is Liverpool?
This empire built Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca Empire?
The architect who designed New York’s Guggenheim Museum, known for his organic forms and “prairie style” homes.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
This scientist proposed the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The Complete Engineer framework includes how many core competencies?
What is six?
In The Legend of Zelda, this is the name of the main playable hero.
Who is Link?
The "Iron Curtain" described the division of Europe during this conflict.
What is the Cold War?
The golden ratio, symbolized by the Greek letter φ (phi), is approximately equal to this decimal value.
What is 1.618?
This Bernoulli principle helps explain why a fluid loses static pressure as it flows through a constricted area of a pipe.
What is the Venturi effect?
The building that houses the Durham School and most engineering organizations at UNO.
What is PKI (Peter Kiewit Institute)?
This movie features the quote, “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
What is The Godfather?
The country formerly known as Siam.
What is Thailand?
This architectural style, common in European cathedrals, is known for pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.
What is Gothic architecture?
This law states that “stress is proportional to strain” within the elastic limit.
What is Hooke’s Law?
This national organization connects engineering student councils across the U.S.
What is NAESC (National Association of Engineering Student Councils)?
This artist became the first to reach 100 million monthly Spotify listeners in 2024.
Who is The Weeknd?
The Treaty of Versailles ended this major war.
What is World War I?
The Rule of Thirds is a compositional principle primarily used in this visual medium.
What is photography (or visual design)?
This law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time, meaning energy naturally spreads from order to disorder.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
The building that houses the UNL College of Engineering and most engineering organizations at UNL.
What is Kiewit Hall?
The term “Red Pill” in modern internet culture originates from this 1999 film.
What is The Matrix?