GE Vernova Execs and Historical Figures
Alphabet Soup
Power Plant Fundamentals
Computer Science
General Knowledge
100

He is the Heavy Duty Plant Engineering leader.

Who is Tushar Desai?

100

These 3 letters describe a new addition, feature, or bug alteration to be completed on our GE Vernova Performance Tools software.

What is an SCR (Software Change Request)?

100

This is the term for the thermodynamic cycle for a steam turbine.

What is Rankine?

100

This term describes a class definition that derives some properties or methods from an existing class.

What is inheritance?

100

This river flows through 11 countries but still doesn't need a passport.

What is the Nile?

200

She leads all of the conventional power organizations.

Who is Mavi Zingoni?

200

These 3 letter libraries are often compiled as a set of functions to be used for software releases.

What is a DLL (Dynamic Link Library)?

200

This is the term for the theoretically optimal gas turbine thermocycle.

What is the Brayton Cycle?

200

This language was first commercially released in 1957 by IBM as the first computer language standard.

What is Fortran?

200

In this sport getting a turkey won't relieve your hunger but it is cause for at least three times of celebration.

What is bowling?

300
Now with their own namesake company, they might argue that Edison took a few of their ideas.

Who is Nikola Tesla?

300

In a steam turbine these 3 letters are used to describe the device responsible for managing the amount of steam entering the turbine or closing it off entirely.

What is a SCV (Stop Control Valve)?

300

This section of the gas turbine incurs more losses than any other.

What is the combustor?

300

These two front end frameworks are the modern standard for web development.

What is React and Angular?

300

This Canadian city is the country's capital.

What is Ottawa?

400

Although he started on a Gas Power generator engineering team, he now is the executive for Vernova's wind businesses.

Who is Vic Abate?

400

In manufacturing, this acronym declares a part as not fitting to specifications and the related documents to describe the solution process.

What is an NCR (Non-Conformance Report)?

400

This product of GT combustion is often filtered out by an SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction).

What are NOx?

400

This technique involves a function calling itself, often to break down a problem into a smaller components.

What is recursion?

400
In 1903, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Who is Marie Curie?

500

This banker helped fund many different industrial companies of the time including backing the creation of General Electric.

Who is J. P. Morgan?

500

This calculation determines all of the effects, often in an environmental framework, of a product from cradle to grave.

What is an LCA (Life Cycle Analysis)?
500

This add-on to the basic steam cycle improves efficiency by preheating water with extracted steam.

What is a feedwater heater?

500

This call and response method is considered the standard for data communication on the internet.

What is TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)?

500

This element has the highest naturally occurring atomic number.

What is Uranium?

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