Of 1776, 1800, 1851 and 1905, this is the year that the first Ph. D. was granted.
What is 1800?
100
This was the name the name of the only supersonic passenger airliner in service from 1979 to 2003.
What is the Concorde?
100
In 1844, Washington DC and Baltimore became the first American cities connected by this method of communication.
What is the telegraph?
100
This ancient mathematician and engineer is credited with saying, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the Earth."
Who is Archimedes?
200
John C Malone, after which the Malone Engineering Center is named, graduated from Yale in 1963 with a degree in this.
What is electrical engineering?
200
Of the following choices, this is the one that describes the reason the grass at Epcot in Disneyworld looks greener.
a) The pavement is pink
b) The grass is engineered with higher chlorophyll levels c) Higher levels of sunlight in Florida lead to higher chlorophyll levels
d) Projected subthreshold green lighting
What is a) the pavement is pink?
200
This is the reason that the earth pin in a three-pin plug is the longest.
What is "so that it makes contact first"?
200
Just two years after the Nobel Prize was founded in 1901, this woman became the first woman to win it.
Who is Marie Curie?
300
This is the number of wind turbines installed atop the Becton Center.
What is 10?
300
Invented in 1947, this electronic equipment replaced the vacuum tubes and subsequently transformed the electronic devices market.
What is the transistor?
300
Of the countries United States, England, USSR, France, this is the one in which nuclear power was first generated.
What is the United States?
300
This active biomedical engineer is the youngest person in history to be elected to the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of medicine.
Who is Robert Langer?
400
Of Paul Fleury, D. Allan Bromley and T. Kyle Vanderlick, the SEAS dean who was once a science adviser to George W. Bush.
Who is D. Allan Bromley?
400
Of the numbers 5 million, 10 million, 20 million, 50 million, this is the approximate number of bricks in the Empire State Building.
What is 10 million?
400
Of Ford, Volvo, Saab, Volkswagen, this automobile maker was the first to use the modern three-point seat belt restraint.
What is Volvo? (...although Saab did introduce seat belts a little earlier)
400
This famous inventor is credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
This is one of the two meanings of the two latin root words of "engineer."
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This is the spelling of the corresponding latin root word to your previous answer.
What is "to contrive or devise" or "cleverness"?
What is "i-n-g-e-n-i-a-r-e" or "i-n-g-e-n-i-u-m"?
500
This is the location of the world's largest single-aperture radio telescope.
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This is the diameter of the world's largest single-aperture telescope.
What is Puerto Rico?
What is 305 m?
500
This is the name of the token engineer in the popular sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
Who is Howard Wolowitz?
500
His 1959 talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" is said to have inspired the field of nanotechnology.