World Capitals
If you are standing in the Louvre Museum looking at the Mona Lisa, you are in this world capital.
What is Paris?
In thermodynamics, the Rankine scale is the absolute temperature scale equivalent to Fahrenheit; to find the Rankine value, you add this number to the Fahrenheit temperature.
What is 459.67?
This 4-letter acronym refers to the national research funding agency for natural sciences and engineering in Canada.
What is NSERC?
This "blind" process is where experts in a field vet a paper before it is accepted for publication.
What is Peer Review?
This planet in our solar system is the only one not named after a Greek or Roman deity.
What is Earth?
Often confused with the much larger Rio de Janeiro, this "planned city" was built in the shape of an airplane and inaugurated as the capital of Brazil in 1960.
What is Brasília?
A common conversion in civil and mechanical engineering involves force: one Kip is equivalent to this many pounds-force.
What is 1,000?
In Canadian engineering tradition, graduating students receive this item, worn on the pinky finger, during the "Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.
What is the Iron Ring?
This metric, often abbreviated as "IF," measures the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year.
What is the Impact Factor?
This is the only country in the world that has a non-quadrilateral flag (it consists of two stacked triangles).
What is Nepal?
This capital city, named after a French ship, was founded in 1749 and serves as the primary port for Haiti's exports of coffee and sugar.
What is Port-au-Prince?
When calculating pressure, one Pascal (1 Pa) is defined as one Newton of force applied over this specific SI unit of area.
What is one Square Meter (1m^2)?
Before becoming UBC Okanagan in 2005, the Kelowna campus belonged to this institution (initials: OC).
What is Okanagan College?
This is the common name for the "Final Boss" of a PhD program, the long-form document that must be defended before a committee.
What is a Dissertation (or Thesis)?
Often discussed in materials science, this is the hardest naturally occurring substance found on Earth.
What is Diamond?
Not to be confused with Istanbul, this city has been the capital of Turkey since 1923.
What is Ankara?
In electrical engineering, this unit representing one Joule per Coulomb is the SI derived unit for electric potential.
What is the Volt?
The "Common" at UBCO is named after this local valley, famously known for its fruit orchards and vineyards.
What is the Okanagan Valley?
In a list of scientific authors, the "Principal Investigator" (PI) who runs the lab and oversees the research is usually found in this position on the author list.
What is Last Position or Last Author?
While many think of the Sahara, this continent is technically the world's largest desert because it receives almost zero precipitation.
What is Antarctica?
While the city of Cape Town is the legislative capital and Pretoria is the administrative capital, this city—the "City of Roses"—serves as the judicial capital of South Africa.
What is Bloemfontein
In fluid mechanics, the SI unit for dynamic viscosity is the Pascal-second (Pa•s); one of these is equivalent to 10 of this non-SI unit often used in older literature.
What is the Poise?
This is the name of the UBCO athletic teams, featuring a legendary lake monster as their namesake.
What is the Heat (derived from the Ogopogo)?
This two-word term describes the unethical practice where a journal publishes research without quality peer review, often charging high "Article Processing Charges" (APCs) to unsuspecting or desperate authors.
What is Predatory Publishing (or Predatory Journals)?
In the periodic table, this is the only letter that does not appear in any element's name or symbol.
What is J?