Gettin' Your Hands Dirty
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This One's for the Nerds
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Riddle Me This!
100
When changing a tire how do you correctly torque lug nuts?
A) Tighten them all to spec immediately
B) Snug them down loosely in a star pattern, then torque in the same pattern
C) Tighten adjacent nuts in a circle
D) Use a breaker bar for leverage during final tightening
What is snug them down loosely in a star pattern, then torque in the same pattern?
100
This is the 7th promise of SAA.
What is "We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows"?
100
This legendary sword, wielded by Link across multiple timelines, must often be retrieved from the Temple of Time or a pedestal in the woods.
What is the Master Sword?
100
This extremely loud sea creature is only about the size of a paperclip, yet its claw can create temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun.
What is a Pistol Shrimp?
100
I’m full of holes but still hold water.
What is a sponge?
200
When anchoring heavy shelves into drywall without a stud, which fastener provides the strongest load-bearing capacity?
A) Plastic expansion anchor
B) Self-drilling drywall anchor
C) Toggle bolt
D) Wood screw
What is a toggle bolt?
200
The popular acronym HALT stands for four common triggers for members in the program and stands for this.
What is hungry, angry, lonely, or tired?
200
This clause of the Treaty of Versailles assigned full responsibility for World War I to Germany, fueling national resentment in the years that followed.
A) Reparations Clause
B) War Guilt Clause
C) Disarmament Clause
D) Territorial Integrity Clause
What is the War Guilt Clause?
200
First team to say "WHAT?" gets the points.
(Jeopardy formatting still applies)
What is "WHAT?"
200
A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
What is you don't bury survivors?
300
When maintaining a gas-powered lawn mower, this small engine component often needs cleaning or replacing to keep it running smoothly.
A) Fuel Injector
B) Spark Plug
C) Throttle Cable
D) Flywheel
What is a spark plug?
300
This Texas city is home to the international headquarters of SAA.
What is Houston?
300
Which subatomic particle is responsible for mediating the electromagnetic force?
A) Gluon
B) Photon
C) Neutrino
D) Higgs boson
What is the photon?
300
If you type “askew” into Google, this amusing thing happens to your screen.
What is the page tilts slightly?
300
You are in a room with two doors and two guards. One door leads to certain death, the other to freedom. One guard always lies, the other always tells the truth. You may ask one guard one question to determine the safe door. What do you ask?
What is: “If I asked the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would they say?” Then go through the opposite door.
400
In residential wiring, this color wire is typically used as the "hot" wire carrying voltage to the outlet.
A) White
B) Black
C) Red
D) Bare Copper
What is black?
400
This title refers to the individual in our fellowship who conducts business meetings.
What is the Chairman/Chairperson?
400
In Neon Genesis Evangelion, these biomechanical beings are piloted by traumatized teens to protect humanity.
What are Evangelions?
400
According to internet legend, this condiment can clean pennies, polish metal, and allegedly fix a car battery.
What is ketchup?
400
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left?
What is your left hand?
500
You're cutting dado grooves in hardwood plywood. To avoid tear-out and ensure fit, you should:
A) Use a jigsaw with a fine-tooth blade
B) Run your table saw blade at full depth in one pass
C) Use a stacked dado blade set and make multiple shallow passes
D) Use a circular saw and straight edge guide
What is using a stacked dado blade set and making multiple shallow passes?
500
This is the name of the nonprofit entity that provides literature, registers meetings, and maintains the international structure of SAA.
What is the International Service Organization (ISO)?
500
In 1983, this song became the first music video by a Black artist to be played in heavy rotation on MTV, breaking the network's unofficial color barrier.
What is Billie Jean?
500
This phenomenon is why your voice sounds differently on a recording.
What is bone conduction?
500
You have a three-gallon jug and a five-gallon jug. How can you measure exactly four gallons of water?
What is: Fill the 5-gallon, pour into the 3-gallon (leaving 2), empty 3-gallon, pour the 2 into it, refill 5-gallon, top off 3-gallon (leaving 4 in the 5-gallon jug)?