General Culture
This 20th-century physicist developed the general theory of relativity, revolutionizing our understanding of space and time
Albert Einstein
What bird was Benjamin Franklin rumored to prefer over the bald eagle as the national symbol?
The WILD Turkey
This is the failure mode when compressive forces cause a member to bend
buckling
This Autodesk software focuses on 3D modeling and Building Information Modeling (BIM), often replacing 2D CAD drawings in modern workflows
Revit
In what year was Datum Engineers founded?
1937
This language is the most widely spoken in the world by native speakers
Mandarin Chinese
What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
The Mayflower
In structural dynamics, this ratio describes how quickly vibrations diminish after a disturbance
damping ratio
In Revit, this element category defines a parametric component that can be used repeatedly, like columns, doors, or beams
A FAMILY <3
This year did the Berlin Wall fall, marking a major point in the end of the Cold War
1989
This ancient wonder of the world was built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu around 2560 BCE
the Great Pyramid of Giza
What U.S. President made Thanksgiving a national holiday?
Abraham Lincoln
The 1981 collapse of this Kansas City hotel walkway, caused by a flawed hanger rod connection detail, remains one of the deadliest structural failures in U.S. history.
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
In what year was the first version of Revit (v 1.0) publicly released
2000
This planet spins so fast that a day on it is only about 10 hours long, making it the ultimate early riser
Jupiter
This ancient city, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, was rediscovered in the 18th century and preserved in remarkable detail
Pompeii
The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featured animals borrowed from this famous place
The Central Park Zoo
This principle states that the distribution of stresses in an elastic body is not significantly affected by small local changes in load
Saint-Venant’s Principle
According to a BIM history article, one of the early projects to use Revit for design and construction scheduling was this high-profile Manhattan tower
What is the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center)
This tiny country’s national animal is a unicorn
Scotland
This Shakespeare play features the line “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
Hamlet
Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in this year.
1621
Before computers, engineers used these handheld analog tools to perform logarithmic calculations for structural analysis
the slide rule
Which software, developed in 1987 in Hungary, is considered the first commercial PC-based BIM product
What is ArchiCAD
This animal can survive without water longer than a camel, thanks to its efficient metabolism
kangaroo rat