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The animated TV series, originally aired on PBS in 1994, and was voiced by Lily Tomlin. This teacher took her students on magical adventures on a bus.

Who is Miss Frizzle - The Magic School Bus

100

He was the dad of a blended family with 6 kids and housekeeper on a TV series that ran from 1969-1974.

Who is Mike Brady

100

A fictional, coeducational, secondary boarding school that enrolls children from ages eleven to eighteen – who study magic.

What is Hogwarts - School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

100

The written instructions from an architect or engineer accompanying the project plans pertaining to the quality of materials and workmanship required for the project.

What are specifications?

100

The brainchild of the geodesic dome.

Who is R. Buckminster Fuller

200

After graduating from the, the Perkins School for the Blind, she got her first job teaching a seven-year-old blind and deaf girl, Helen Keller.

Who is Anne Sullivan

200

An American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. He believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935).

Who is Frank Lloyd Wright.

200

This Tacoma, WA High School was used as the setting of the 1999 American teen romantic comedy film film 10 Things I Hate About You.

What is Stadium High School

200

The planning, scheduling, evaluation, and controlling of construction tasks and activities to accomplish specific objectives outlined in the contract documents.

What is Construction Management? 

200

This civilization invented the arch.

Who are the Romans?

300

An Italian physician and educator, best known for her philosophy and research of education, the method known as the “Scientific Pedagogy” is named after her.

Who is Maria Montessori

300

He is known for his postmodern designs and use of bold, unconventional forms and materials. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. These buildings are characterized by their sculptural, often undulating exteriors and innovative use of cladding materials such as titanium and stainless steel.

Who is Frank Gehry

300

Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a tough police detective working undercover as a kindergarten teacher in what school, to locate the wife and child of drug dealer Cullen Crisp, who are living under assumed identities in a small Pacific Northwest Coastal town.

What is Astoria Elementary School

300

A change or addition to the contract documents issued after the documents have been released but before the bids are due.

What is an Addendum?

300

The largest museum in the world.

What is the Louvre?

400

An American science communicator, television presenter, and former mechanical engineer at Boeing. He is best known as the host of a science education television show (1993–1999) and as a science educator in pop culture.

Who is Bill Nye

400

Known for his unique neofuturistic style, this Spanish architect has to his name nearly 100 projects spanning more than four decades. His career is characterized by bridges and train stations, museums, hotels, sports complexes, and theaters. His first building in the US was the Milwaukee Art Museum with a glass and steel entry hall with a moveable sunscreen roof, composed of two large wings made up of twenty-six smaller wings.

Who is Santiago Calatrava

400

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film that depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson who develop an attraction for each other during a summer romance. What is the name of the High School they attend?

What is Rydell High School

400

As walls that support the weight of a structure, load-bearing walls are important to locate because they must stay in the same place for buildings to remain safe.

What are load-bearing walls?

400

This husband and wife creative team, are best known for their iconic MCM furniture styles by developing a molded plywood product.

Who are Charles and Ray Eames

500

Born into Slavery in 1856, this American educator, author, and orator was an advocate for the African-American community in education and in 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute (University) in Alabama, an institute for black higher education.

Who is Booker T Washington

500

Her architectural style is not easily categorized, and she did not describe herself as a follower of any one style or school. Sometimes called the "Queen of the curve" her unconventional buildings seem to defy the logic of construction, she was the first female to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2004.

Who is Zaha Hadid

500

A German art school from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and fine arts, famous for its design approach that emphasized function and mass production, influencing modern architecture and design.

What is the Bauhaus

500

A type of schedule of construction activities, that include the relationships between project activities as well as start and finish dates.

What is a Gantt chart?

500

European city known as The Bride of the Sea.

What is Venice?