Concrete
Famous Civil Engineering Projects
British Motorways
Affair Babies
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This mixture, often used in construction as the foundation of buildings, is a heavy, rough material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, cement, and water, that can be spread or poured into molds and that forms a mass resembling stone on hardening.

Concrete

100

A renowned French civil engineer and architect, Gustave Eiffel is remembered as “the Magician of Iron,” and the father of this famous iron structure.

The Eiffel Tower

100

The M1 motorway connects Leeds to this other city, the capital of the UK.

London

100

This dictator, the son of Ángel Castro y Argiz and his mistress, grew up to become the popular leader of Cuba.

Fidel Castro
200

This means it exists in a material or physical form; not abstract.

Concrete

200

Thomas Andrews was the main architect of this ship whose maiden voyage was in 1912.

The Titanic

200

Coming from the south, I would take the A702 into this country, whose capital is Edinburgh.

Scotland

200

This famous actor, appearing in popular movies such as Somethings Gotta Give and The Departed, thought his grandparents were his actual parents until he was 37 years old.

Jack Nicholson

300

Early forms of concrete were used to build these famous mega structures over 5,000 years ago.

Pyramids of Giza

300

John Augustus Roebling created this famous bridge by twisting iron together to create a “wire rope,” resulting in the suspension bridge.

Brooklyn Bridge

300

This was Britain's first full-length motorway and it opened in 1959.

M1

300

This famous Italian-born actress, named by the American Film Institute as the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema, was born out of wedlock.

Sophia Loren

400

Most concrete is poured with this common reinforcing material made of steel.

Rebar

400

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Wells Concrete manufactured and erected nearly 25,000 sq. ft. of precast concrete for this project, which seats 19,400 people and contains turf from Heath Farms in Wisconsin.

Allianz Field in St. Paul

400
The M25 is the motorway that circles London, but is more formally known as this.

The London Orbital Motorway

400

Although still an unconfirmed rumor, a few believe this member of the British royal family was born out of wedlock to a British Army cavalry officer named James Hewitt.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

500

Located in Rome, this is the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. 

Roman Pantheon

500

This is Saul Silver's (James Franco in Pineapple Express) second favorite civil engineer, who was the creator of the cable-suspension system for the roof of Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Hannskarl Bandel

500

This motorway begins in the English town of Carlisle and can be taken south through Manchester and Birmingham, until it eventually ends at the Catthorpe Interchange, just outside of London.

The M6


(There's road signs throughout the movie zooming in on M6 road signs)

500

Born out of wedlock in 1452 to a wealthy Italian notary and a peasant woman named Caterina, this famous artist had difficulty staying out of trouble. Court records from 1476 show that he was charged with sodomy in an incident involving a male prostitute.

Leonardo da Vinci

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