"Tehniskā grafika"
Acronyms
Riddles
Filming
Types of engineering
100
In what case should you use a pen in a technical drawing?
To sign the drawing.
100
What is GMO?
GMO – Genetically Modified Organism
100
I am round, I turn and roll, I help machines move toward their goal. What am I?
wheel
100
What type of filter is used to cancel reflection and glare?
Circular polarizing/polarizing filter
100
It’s the profession where people bully ingredients into behaving. You stare at a tomato and say “be sauce,” and then invent a machine that squishes it 4,000 times per second. which type of engineering is it?
Food engineering
200
How do you differentiate a circle from an ellipse, from a hyperbola, from a parabola, when drawing a cone?
Ellipses and circles are closed figure cuts. Hyperbolas and parabolas are not.
Ellipses have two DIFFERENT radii, but a circle has one.
Hyperbolas cut both the upper and lower cone, parabolas cut only one of them.
200
What is STEAM?
STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics
200
I turn things but I’m not a bolt, flat or cross I make things hold. What am I?
screwdriver
200
What is the name of a process of recording high-resolution movement of objects or people into a computer system?
Motion capture/mocap
200
It’s the field where people persuade tiny angry lightning gremlins to move through spaghetti made of metal. Mostly it’s just poking circuits and hoping the smoke stays inside, because once the smoke gets out, the magic stops working. Which type of engineering is it?
Electrical engineering
300
What does RTU stand for? (no points for real answer, all points for the golden answer)(answer in latvian)
Rasēšanas Tehniskā Universitāte
300
What is NATO?
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
300
I hold information and I travel fast, without me, computers cannot last. What am I?
Flash drive
300
Until 1926, most motion picture film was orthochromatic (sensitive to blue-violet hues). What color would appear black on the orthochromatic film?
Red
(yellow and orange)
300
It’s the job where you convince enormous metal objects to ignore gravity out of sheer stubbornness, without overheating, vibrating itself into confetti, or wandering off in some tragic, expensive direction. Which type of engineering is it?
Aerospace engineering
400
What rulers are needed for our technical drawing subject?
15-18cm: 45degrees and 60/30 degrees.
400
What is LASER?
LASER – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
400
I spin fast to make holes or join things tight, without me, screws and bolts can’t fight. What am I?
Drill
400
What filming term was reinvented and popularized by the Matrix?
In Matrix, filming technology based on this effect used a rig of still cameras to capture a single moment from multiple angles.
The bullet time effect
(frozen moment, dead time, flow motion, or time slice )
400
It’s basically cooking, except the ingredients can explode, the oven is the size of a building, and the recipe is 800 pages of thermodynamics written by someone who hates joy. which type of engineering is it?
Chemical engineering
500
How do you sharpen a pencil correctly? Step by step
Mark 2.8 cm from the pencil tip.
Cut off the wood part to leave only the graphite.
Then sand off the tip to get the desired thickness of the pencil graphite. (0.3 or 0.7mm)
Wrong answer: using a pencil sharpener.
500
What is GIF?
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
500
I show you information with light and sound, I help humans and machines get around. What am I?
Computer
500
What was the name of the device that kept the moonlight focused on the plate during the long exposure used to capture the first photograph of the Moon?
Heliostat
500
They spend half their time doing math and the other half staring at cracks deciding whether they’re “normal cracks” or “oh-no-everyone-run cracks.” Which type of engineering is it?
Civil engineering