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Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
100
The year Civil Engineering was officially recognized as a career
What is 1828?
100
A structure notorious for its 3.97 degree tilt is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in its namesake Italian town? The structure's tilt comes from the soft ground of its unstable foundation.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
100
4 ingredients of concrete
What is Cement, sand, gravel (aggregate), water.
100
The acronym "HOV"
What is a High Occupancy Vehicle?
100
If a car is traveling at 40mph, how long will it take to go 190 miles?
4 hours and 45 Minutes.
200
A California structure designed in 1917 has an official color of "international orange?
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
200
World's tallest Building
What is the Burj Khalifa?
200
Name of stone placed on a slope to prevent erosion
What is rip rap?
200
First freeway in the U.S.
What is the I-110 (The Arroyo Seco Freeway)?
200
What ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru?
Incas
300
An engineer that was elected President
Who is Herbert Hoover or Jimmy Carter
300
World's longest bridge
What is the Dan Yang Kunshan grand bridge (over 100 miles in length)
300
This mathematical formula is used to calculate...
What is Poisson's ratio?
(the ratio of the proportional decrease in a lateral measurement to the proportional increase in length in a sample of material that is elastically stretched.)
300
One of the greatest transportation inventions by African-American inventor, Garrett A. Morgan, is this…
What is a traffic light?
300
Which Continent is the least populated?
Asia
Antarctica
Australia
Europe
Antarctica
400
Howard P. Grant was the first Black graduate of the Berkeley Engineering, the first Black engineer for the City and County of San Francisco, and the first known Black member of what professional organization, the oldest of its type in the U.S.?
What is the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
400
The suspension bridge that connects the two major peninsulas of Michigan
What is the Mackinac Bridge.
400
Refers to the portion of beam where bending moment changes from positive to negative
What is inflection Point?
400
The first time a President ever rode in a car was on August 22, 1902, when this President took a ride in Hartford…
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
400
Which revolutionary leader wrote the influential "Common Sense" in 1776?
Thomas Paine
500
First ever Civil Engineer/ Father of Civil Engineering
Who is John Smeaton?
500
A controversial structure, built along China's Yangtze River, became the world's largest power station in 2012 and is also the world's largest concrete structure?
What is the Three Gorges Dam.
500
Maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.
Ultimate Strength
500
This company in the Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused traffic jams on the highway.
What is IKEA?
500
What is the smallest continent?
Oceania