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100
This purple dinosaur told us "I love you, you love me".
Who is Barney?
100
How do you pronounce this word: Haverhill
100
This TV show features the recurring quote, “That’s what she said,” often delivered by the regional manager.
What is The Office?
100
This graphical tool in bridge design shows the relationship between shear force and bending moment along a beam.
What is a shear and moment diagram?
100
This mountain holds the title of tallest on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
200
This digital pet was the must-have toy of the late '90s.
What is a Tamagotchi?
200
This design method uses load factors and resistance factors to ensure safety.
What is LRFD?
200
This actor slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
Who is Will Smith?
200
This material property, often denoted as "f'c", represents the compressive strength of concrete.
What is the 28-day compressive strength?
200
This is the capital city of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
300
This boy band brought us hits like "Bye Bye Bye".
Who is *NSYNC?
300
This is the modulus of elasticity for steel, measured in ksi.
What is 29,000 ksi?
300
This film franchise gave us the phrase, “May the Force be with you.”
What is Star Wars?
300
This structural element resists axial compression and can buckle if it's too slender.
What is a column?
300
An adult human body contains this many bones.
What is 206?
400
This character lived in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
400
In column design, this factor represents effective length.
What is the K value?
400
This TV show’s final season caused a fan uproar and featured dragons and direwolves.
What is Game of Thrones?
400
A simply supported beam with a point load at the center will experience this type of stress at midspan.
What is bending (or flexural) stress?
400
This is the only U.S. state with a one-syllable name.
What is Maine?
500
This was the name of Harry Potter's pet owl.
Who is Hedwig?
500
This lateral pressure component, often modeled as an equivalent uniform load, accounts for traffic loads adjacent to the back of an abutment.
What is live load surcharge?
500
This sci-fi epic is set on the desert planet Arrakis.
What is Dune?
500
This tool in OpenBridge Modeler allows you to control which elements are visible by turning specific layers on or off.
What is Level Display?
500
This planet has the most moons in our solar system.
What is Saturn?