University of Michigan
Wood shop
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Potpourri
100

What year was the University of Michigan founded?

1817

100

Required in the wood shop to protect your eyes.

What is safety glasses

100

This is the title of David Baldacci’s debut novel, later adapted into a 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood.


What is Absolute Power?

100

A quick, high-heat method that cooks food in a small amount of fat in a shallow pan—its name comes from the French for “to jump.”

What is sautéing?

100

This is the winningest team in college football history

Who are the Michigan Wolverines?

200

This phrase, often used on merchandise, represents the university's motto of being the best in academics and athletics.

 What is "Leaders and the Best"?

200

The direction in which you should always sand.

What is with the grain.

200

Amos Decker, a former football player turned detective with perfect memory, appears in this Baldacci thriller series.

What is "Memory Man"

200

A process where food (often vegetables) is briefly scalded in boiling water, then immediately cooled in ice water to stop the cooking.

What is blanching?

200

At Harrow School, this future British prime minister became English Public Schools Champion in this sport.

What is fencing?

300

Who wrote, "Hail to the Victors"?

Louis Elbel

300

The feature in wood created by the tree trunk growing around the base of a branch.

What is a knot?

300

Before joining the FBI as a consultant, Amos Decker worked in this profession.

What is a police detective?

300

A combination method in which food is first browned at high heat, then cooked slowly in a covered pot with a relatively small amount of liquid.


What is braising?

300

This NBA player scored a record 100 points in a single game in 1962.

Who is Wilt Chamberlain.

400

Located on the Diag, this building is an iconic campus landmark and library known for its large clock tower.


What is the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library?

400

The number of the finest sandpaper of these grits: 60, 120, 150 or 80

What is 150.

400

This standalone novel by Baldacci centers on family, forgiveness, and a small Virginia town rather than political conspiracy.

What is "Wish You Well"?

400

The process that creates stable mixtures like mayonnaise by combining liquids that don’t normally mix—like oil and water—often using an emulsifier.

What is emulsification?

400

Denied formal recognition in his own lifetime for a battlefield action he called “the great day of my life,” this man ultimately received the nation’s highest military decoration under a president more than eight decades later.

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

500

The action that superstition dictates will result in your flunking your first test.

What is walking on the Brass M?

500

The type of wood you get from a tree that has leaves.

What is hardwood.

500

After a violent hit on his first play as a pro football player, Decker’s brain changes give him these two abilities.

What are synesthesia and hyperthymesia?

500

A confectionery technique of melting and cooling chocolate in a controlled way so stable cocoa butter crystals form—producing chocolate that’s shiny and snaps cleanly.

What is tempering (chocolate)?

500

In tennis, this rule comes into play when the player hits a serve that legally lands in the opponent's serve box but hits the net on the way there

What is a let?

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