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100

What structure notorious for its 3.97 degree tilt is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in its namesake Italian town? The structure's tilt comes from the soft ground of its unstable foundation.

A. Leaning Tower of Pisa

B.  Leaning Tower of Suurhusen 

A. Leaning Tower of Pisa

100

What canal connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea?

A. Suez Canal

B. Panama Canal

A. Suez Canal

100

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Alcoa and Arconia are the two largest US-based producers of what elemental metal?

A. Aluminum

B. Silver

A. Aluminum

200

In civil engineering, Abrams’ law describes the strength of which type of building material that is composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together?

A. Cement

B. Concrete

B. Concrete

200

In 1975 an engineer created the first electronic camera while working for what company?

A. Kodak

B. Nikon

A. Kodak

200

Though his fame exploded with a separate project nearly 30 years later, what European architect designed an iron bridge over the Garonne River in Bordeaux?

A. Ludwig

B. Eiffel 

B. Eiffel

300

What physical measurement is technically defined as force divided by the area over which that force is being applied? 

A. Pressure

B. Velocity

A. Pressure

300

At a towering 406 feet, Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is the world’s tallest masonry dam built in 1969 in what heavily-populated Asian country?

A. India

B. Pakistan

A. India

300

The metal alloy invar, which has a low coefficient in thermal expansion, leading to its application where high-dimensional security is required, comprises iron and which ferromagnetic element?

A. Nickel

B. Bronze

A. Nickel

400

A major potential in efforts to engineer environmental sustainability are attempts to breed bacteria that can eat what polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle?

A. Plastic

B. Paper Bags

A. Plastic

400

The last letter of the Greek alphabet represents what unit of electrical resistance?

A. Ohm

B. volts

A. Ohm

400

What is the tallest building in the world as of 2020?

A. Shanghai Tower

B. Burj Khalifa

B. Burj Khalifa

500

Describing how an object changes in size when the temperature changes, the abbreviation CTE stands for "coefficient of thermal" WHAT?

A. Extremity

B. Expansion

B. Expansion

500

After he made history as the first man to walk on the moon, what astronaut served as a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979?

A. Neil Armstrong

B. James Armstrong

A. Neil Armstrong

500

In what century was the first mechanical clock invented?

A. 15th century

B. 14th Century

B. 14th Century