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The name of the community for whom the bridge will be built

What is Huataraque?

100

The type of bridge we're building

What is a suspended bridge?

100

The longest phase of construction

What is excavation?

100

Our current faculty advisor

Who is Richard Wiebe?

100

Sage's cat's name

What is Chicken?

200

The Spanish words for left and right

What are izquierda y derecha?

200

The shape that we assume the cables take

What is a parabola?

200

The process of making "stair steps" in the excavation holes so we don't get stuck

What is benching?

200

Our official name in the RSO directory

What is Engineers In Action University of Washington Chapter?

200

The main three destinations for EIA projects

What are Bolivia, Eswatini, and West Virginia?

300

The administrative capital of Bolivia (bonus points for the constitutional capital - they're different!)

What is La Paz (and Sucre)?

300

The total number of tiers for our bridge

What is 6.5?

300

How we slightly loosen the anchor cables after clamping

What is hitting them with a stick?

300

Sam's role on his bridge build

What is quality control (QC)?

300

The most important and least important design objectives

What are safety and aesthetics?

400

EIA's acronym in Spanish

What is FIEA?

400

The actual shape the cables form when hanging under their own weight

What is a catenary?

400

How long we wait after hoisting cables to account for settling

What is 24 hours?

400
Our two guests from DCI engineers

Who are Richard Hemmen and Tom Walters?

400

The current president of Bolivia

Who is Luis Arce?

500

Como se dice puente en inglés

¿Qué es bridge?

500

Our bridge's span (in meters)

What is 56?

500

The altitude at which we need to consider the effect of high elevation on concrete strength

What is 3000 meters?

500

The fundraising campaign carried out in honor of Richard Hemmen's granddaughter, Rachel

What is charity: water?

500

How you win in the card game of bridge

What is scoring 100 trick points below the line?

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