Civil Engineering
Food Science
Do You Remember COVID-19?
Effective Altruism
The US Department of Defense
100
What do civil engineers do?
Build infrastructure
100
The term for a colloidal mixture between a lipid compound and a water based solution in cooking is...
an emulsion
100
What city was the origin of COVID?
Wuhan, China (Double: Name the province).
100
This famous effective altruist committed fraud in a crypto exchange because he believed it was morally justified.
Sam Bankman-Fried
100
Name all the service branches of the DoD
Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard
200
Which country holds the record for the tallest bridge?
France
200
How is butter made?
Churning cream till it separates into butter and buttermilk.
200
Which country had the most COVID deaths as of today?
USA
200
This line of work is recommended by EA college counseling services to students proficient in mathematics because of its high earning potential.
Quant Finance
200
The DoD is headquartered in this regular polygon shaped building.
The Pentagon
300
This bridge is frequently used in civil engineering classes to display the importance of understanding resonant frequencies as the bridge collapsed from swaying in a strong wind.
Tacoma Narrows
300
Why is oil used in cooking?
Effective Heat Transfer Medium
300
In the early days, many questionable medical experts and world leaders (Bolsonaro, Trump) touted this antimalarial drug as a cure for COVID (in fact it actually suppresses your immune system).
hydroxychloroquine
300
Effective altruists often praise this ideology of work, where one makes a lot of money in a high-paying field to then turn around and give it to charity.
Earn-To-Give
300
Before the civil war, the US DOD was known as this:
The Department of War
400
Name a suspension bridge that was the longest at the world at some point after 1900.
Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, Bear Mountain Bridge, Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Ambassador Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge,
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge,
Humber Bridge,
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Çanakkale 1915 Bridge
400
The reaction that is responsible for the browning/caramelization of food is called what? (Also similar to the name of a type of duck...)
Maillard Reaction
400
This was the first company to come out with a vaccine for COVID
Pfizer
400
EA organizations are extremely concerned about this coming threat, written about in the book, The Alignment Problem
Whether AI will share our values
400
The US Air Force Academy is located in which high-elevation state?
Colorado
500
Which country has the largest high-speed-rail network by length?
China
500
What oil has the highest smoke point?
Avocado Oil, EV Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil
Avocado Oil
500
Some people began taking this medicine made for horses to cure COVID because of online misinformation.
Horse Dewormer/Ivermectin
500
Please explain Peter Singer's shallow pond argument for effective altruism.
TBA
500
In the leadup to the Iraq war, regular citizens were able to predict when large operations were about to happen because of this observation regarding food in the DoD's headquarters.
Dominos Pizza orders spiked the night before