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All About Engineering
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Women in History
International Facts
100
This famous actor left MU two weeks before earning his degree.
Who is Brad Pitt?
100
This discipline of engineering designs power and energy systems, aerospace/aircraft products, weapon systems, transportation products engines, compressors, power trains, kinematic chains, vacuum technology, and vibration isolation equipment.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
100
The fastest growing communication tool ever.
What is the internet?
100
She was the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
100
This country holds the largest population in the world with a population of around 7 billion.
What is China?
200
They were Mizzou’s opponent in the very first homecoming game in 1911.
Who are the kansas jayhawks?
200
This engineering wonder was the landmark of the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893.
What is the Ferris Wheel?
200
The Material that money is made out of.
What is cotton?
200
This women was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science.
Who is Madame Curie?
200
This river, located in Africa, flows north AND south of the equator.
What is the Congo River?
300
The most common destination for Mizzou Students to study abroad.
What is Italy?
300
The first university of award a PhD in engineering in the United States.
What is Yale University in 1863?
300
The only animal with four knees.
What is an elephant?
300
This women is known for her children's books and being the “storyteller of the prairie”.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
300
This country is the smallest country in the world by landmass.
What is the Vatican City?
400
The University of Missouri mascot became a tiger in recognition of this group in 1890.
What is a local Civil War militia called “The Missouri Tigers”?
400
Two U.S. Presidents both had engineering backgrounds. Name one.
Who is Herbert Hoover? Who is Jimmy Carter? Hoover studied mining engineering and Carter worked for the Navy as an engineer.
400
The only thing that can destroy a diamond.
What is intense heat?
400
This women formed the Equal Rights Association in 1867 which worked for universal suffrage.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
400
Saint Patrick was born in this country.
What is Britain?
500
This item is rumored to have caused the fire that burned down Academic Hall, leaving only the columns which still stand today.
What is the first electric light bulb west of the Mississippi?
500
The word engineer comes from a Latin word meaning this.
What is cleverness?
500
Every citizen in Kentucky is required to do this once a year by law.
What is take a bath?
500
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female to earn this type of degree in the US.
What is a medical degree?
500
This country almost entirely surrounds the White Sea.
What is Russia?
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