Communication
"Watson, come over here - I need you." were the first words spoken over a telephone. Who said these words when he invented the first phone?
If I were to try to connect the north pole of one magnet, the two poles would?
What is attract?
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
The Manhattan Project was a government-sponsored research project that eventually would provide the foundation for which of the following technologies?Supercomputers, The Internet, Nuclear power or Space flight
Nuclear power
Sputnik, which was the first satellite to go into orbit, was close in size to which common sports ball?
What is a basketball?
5 main components make up a typical computer: the motherboard, Central Processing Unit, Graphics Processing Unit, Random Access Memory, Solid State Drive. Which part processes and interprets the information?
What is the Central Processing Unit?
How are electromagnets different from magnets?
What is "you can turn an electromagnet off"?
What is an emerging area of technology that involves the study of materials on an ultra-small scale and the novel properties that these materials demonstrate.
What is nanotechnology?
The area of marine trash in the North Pacific Ocean, estimated to be about twice the size of Texas and made up mostly of plastic, is commonly referred to as:
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This force moves an aircraft or spacecraft through the air, it is generated by the engines through a propulsion system. This force opposes gravity.
What is thrust?
A fiber optic cable is made of what kind of material?
What is glass?
What kind of energy comes from heat generated within the earth?
What is geothermal energy?
Artificial Eye Lenses are the most popular medical implant in the United States. This procedure is to correct what condition that affects many elderly people?
What are cataracts?
What part of an engine causes the linear piston motion to convert to rotational motion? Valves, Crankshaft, Piston, or Spark plug
Crankshaft
What is the name of the NASA rover that landed on Mars in February of this year (2021)?
What is Perseverence?
The “e” in “email” stands for what?
What is electronic?
What type of gas is produced by processing animal and plant waste?
What is biogas?
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a test that uses powerful magnets, radio waves, and a computer to do what?
What is "take detailed pictures of the inside of your body"?
When an engineer gives something up in order to meet other specifications, it is called a:
Trade-off, Compromise, Design Constraint, Optimization
Trade-off
What is the name for a device allowing ships to change elevation as they travel through a canal? Hint: There's one in Ballard.
What is a lock?
The binary number 100 is equal to what decimal number?
What is 4?
In a house what is the typical voltage in an outlet?
What is 120 volts?
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 were what type of vaccines?
What are messenger RNA or mRNA vaccines?
The _________ was the first organ to be transplanted from one person to another.
kidney
Ocean freight uses these to transport products, stacked on a ship and delivered from seaports to seaport or another terminal.
What are shipping containers?