St. Louis
Classic Crafts
Stress
Design
Potpourri
100

What dairy product, known for it's low melting point, distinguishes St. Louis style pizza, and is widely distained by those with a functioning palate. 

What is provel cheese

100

This Wehrmacht weapon used a low-cost pulse-jet engine and foreshadowed the modern Shahed systems as the original low cost cruise missile. 

What is the V-1, Fi 103, buzz bomb or doodlebug

100

Lucas Siron has 3 kids that he knows about. Name 2 of them. 

Who is Reagan, Corbyn & Fallyn

100

The number of Steve Mercer's children (x), minus the number of grandchildren he's currently expecting to have by November 2026 (y) (x-y=?). 

5

100

The first recorded engineer lived in what modern day country?

What is Egypt. The engineer's name was Imhotep and they designed the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. 
200

This landmark, shaped as a weighted catenary curve, was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1947 and completed in 1965.

What is the St. Louis Arch

200

The last piston-engined fighter ordered into production for the USAF and made it's debut in the Korean conflict. It's unique design utilized two fuselages. 

What is the P-82.

200

Before commencing a full-scale structural test, the weight of structure and test equipment must be factored into the applied loads. These corrective loads are called what? 

What are tare loads?

200

Which group of metallic alloys has the highest specific strength?

What is Titanium or Ti-6Al-4V. 
200

Olfactory is to smell as gustatory is to what? 

Taste
300

This St. Louis attraction was created by artist Bob Cassilly in a former shoe company warehouse. It was opened to the public in 1997.

What is the City Museum

300

This McDonnell Douglas rocket served as an inspiration for the SpaceX Falcon 9 by successfully taking off and landing in 1993. 

What is the DC-X

300

This law describes the linear relationship between stress and strain. 

What is Hooke's Law

300

Materials which have the same stiffness and strength in all directions within the plane of the part have what property? 

Quasi-isotropic or isotropic. 

300

This 19th century ground transportation device, named after two British coins, used a human operated direct drive power transfer to reach speeds approaching 20 mph. 

What is the penny farthing. 

400

Before being known as the Cardinals or the Browns, this was the name of the St. Louis baseball team

The Brown Stockings or The Perfectos

400

The Boeing RAH-66 Comanche was cancelled in 2004. It was originally called the YRAH-66. What does each letter designation signify? 

Y=Prototype, R=Reconnaissance, A=Attack, H=Helicopter. 

400

The steel used in the Titanic skins is largely blamed for the catastrophe due to it's brittle nature at freezing temperatures. What specific element in the alloy led to this behavior? 

What is sulfur.

400

Amongst passenger cars mass produced in the US in 2025, which company makes the car with the lowest aerodynamic drag coefficient?

What is Lucid. The Air has a cd=0.197.

400

This thermodynamic cycle produces less volumetric power density than the Otto cycle but offers improved efficiency, and is used in many modern hybrid internal combustion engines. 

What is the Atkinson cycle

500

This inventor performed the first ever public demonstration of wireless energy and radio transmission at the St. Louis Exhibition Building.  

Who is Nikola Tesla

500

This prototype developed by Vought featured an "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body serving as the lifting surface. Two piston engines buried in the body drove propellers located on the leading edge, at the wingtips.

What is the Vought V-173. 

500

For a simple specimen under tension, as the hole diameter / specimen width ratio (d/W) approaches zero, what is the stress concentration factor?

Three

500

In the 1994 edition of the McDonnell Douglas design handbook, 11 experts are listed as SME's for fastener installation on page 5. Which one is still supporting MQ-25?

Who is Ken Wagner? 

500

The SR-71 navigation system used this to develop it's reference frame. It was accurate within 300 feet. 

Star tracking