Everyday Engineering
This thermodynamic quantity is commonly described as a system's "disorder," and always tends to increase in a closed system
What is entropy?
The religious figure atop the Golden Dome
Who is Mary?
This molecule, composed of one carbon and four hydrogen atoms, is dozens of times more potent of a greenhouse gas than CO2 and is primarily released by the agriculture industry
What is methane (CH4)?
This team won the USA vs Bosnia game last night
USA
This computer security measure is fundamental to the operation of a number of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin
What is blockchain?
Across the road from the peace plaza by the lake sits this famous Notre Dame sacred space, a 1:7 scale replica of the original in Lourdes, France
What is the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes?
This novel vaccine technology, exemplified by the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, uses genetic instructions to stimulate the immune system and protect against diseases
What is an mRNA vaccine?
This 2026 movie was the highest grossing biopic and music biopic of all time with a worldwide box office gross of approximately $977 million
What is Michael
This structure, typically used in wings, generates lift by creating a difference in air pressure between its upper and lower surfaces
What is an airfoil?
The year women were first allowed to attend Notre Dame
What is 1972?
The three components of Freud's structural model of the psyche, whose names come from the Latin words for "it," "I," and "above I"
What are the id, ego, and superego?
This figure skater won gold in the women's single event during the Winter Olympics 2026
Alysa Liu
This structural element of beams, bars, or rods, often used in bridge construction, can be described as a rigid triangular framework
What is a Truss?
The maximum capacity of Notre Dame Stadium (rounded to the nearest 5,000)
What is 80,000?
The two elements discovered by Marie Curie, which resulted in both her Nobel Prize as well as her premature death due to radiation poisoning
What are Radium and Polonium?
This song is the longest running top song of 2026
What is Choosin' Texas?
Defined technically, an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis
What is a screw?
The first wireless transmission in North America was sent from this building
What is the Basilica of the Sacred Heart?
This elementary particle, discovered in 2012 at CERN, is associated with imparting mass to other particles in the Standard Model of particle physics
What is the Higgs Boson?
These people were on the Artemis II mission that took place between April 1st- April 10th (name 1 to get points)
Who are Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen?