Hand Tools
Materials, Fasteners, Fastening Tools
Worksite Health and Safety
Construction Math and Measuring
Mixed Bag
Construction & Carpentry General Info
100
This saw's name makes you think of a locked doorknob.
What is a keyhole saw?
100
What the real (dressed) dimensions of 1 by 3 lumber are.
What is 3/4" x 2-1/2"?
100
What OSHA stands for.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
100
The metric ruler is typically divided into ____________.
What is centimeters and millimeters?
100
This type of screw head is named after it's inventor, a Canadian.
What is a Robertson head screw?
100
The title of the crew lead on a job site that directly supervises a particular crew.
What is a foreman?
200
You can't smoke this tool, but it sure is useful.
What is a pipe clamp?
200
This type of screw head is the one where the driver is most likely to slide out of:
What is a slotted or flat head?
200
The most common cause of construction workplace fatalities.
What is falls?
200
The place value of 2 in the number 123,456
What is ten thousands?
200
This old school hand drill has two names with "and" in the middle.
What is a brace and bit?
200
The material that pegboard is made out of.
What is masonite or hardboard?
300
This tool, used for transferring a point through gravity, contains a fruit name and a first name.
What is a plumb bob?
300
This tool is mainly used by structural steel workers.
What is a spud wrench?
(This being a crescent spud wrench rather than a pipe spud wrench.)
300
The Federal Department that oversees OSHA.
What is the Dept. of Labor?
300
When a number is stated as a percentage, it means that number represents a portion of __________.
What is 100?
300
This framing square looks like a regular framing square, but there are additional formulas and markings on it.
What is a pipefitter's square?
300
The reason actual dimensions of lumber are smaller than their names.
What is the milling process?
400
A modern upgrade to a very common tool, quite popular with realtors and for use in site surveys.
What is a laser measurer/laser tape measure?
400
What you do to change direction on a socket wrench.
What is push or turn the lever on the back?
400
What PPE is short for.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
400
The difference in degrees between freezing and boiling water in Fahrenheit.
What is 180 degrees?
400
This tool goes by 2 different names and will absolutely live in your tool belt if you're installing trim in an old house.
What is a bevel gauge or T-bevel?
400
Hand tool that is used to cut across the grain.
What is a crosscut handsaw?
500
This demo tool is named after a house pet's body part.
What is a Cat's Paw
500
What the real (dressed) dimensions are of a 2 x 4.
What is 1-1/2" by 3-1/2"?
500
In the US, the term HAZCOM is short for this.
What is Hazard Communcation Standard?
500
An inside measurement can be taken with a tape measure by doing this.
What is adding the length of the tape measure case?
500
The boiling point of water in Celsius.
What is 100 degrees celcius?
500
When you cut a piece of lumber, with the grain, to make the entire length narrower.
What is to rip?
600
This is a demolition tool
What is a pry bar, wrecking bar, or wonder bar
600
What the standard size that sheet goods (plywood, particle board, etc.) come in.
What is 4' x 8'?
600
One approach to hazard and safety analysis has two abbreviations. (Either reply is a correct answer).
What is JHA or JSA?
600
When reduced to its lowest terms, the fraction 12/16 would read as___________________.
What is 3/4?
600
What the circumference of a circle represents.
What is the distance around the outside (perimeter)?
600
Framing piece in a studwall that can help slow down a spreading fire.
What is a noggin?
700
The proper tool to hit the top of a wood chisel with.
What is a wooden mallet?
700
You would use a tool (with a man's name) to fasten these in to place.
What is an Allen Key /allen or hex bit?
700
Every product on a jobsite will also have this document that breaks down each product by safe use and handling and hazards.
What is a safety data sheet or SDS?
700
When converting decimals to a percentage, simply move the decimal point ____________.
What is two places to the right?
700
What an acute angle is.
What is an angle that is less than 90 degrees?
700
The name of the type of cut you do to make a 90 degree angle with two different pieces of wood that is a type of crosscut- used for molding, picture frames, etc.?
What is a miter cut?
800
This type of pliers are really effective for cutting zip cord (zip cord=lamp cord).
What are end cutter pliers?
800
This screw head name is trademarked is is meant for use in public spaces to be more tamper resistant.
What is a Torx screwhead?
800
Every stairway floor opening and elevated area will have both a railing and this item for safety.
What is a toeboard?
800
One cubic meter represents a cube shape that measures 1 meter in all three dimensions. Each side is this measurement in CENTIMETERS.
What is 100 centimeters?
800
The circled part of a hammer has the same name as a part of your face.
What is a cheek?
800
This product is like the "chicken nugget" of sheet goods. (Wood pieces and pulp pressed together with glues to make a sheet.)
What is particle board?
900
This tool has a sharp blade on both sides.
What is a carpet knife?
900
This tool is meant for very heavy duty use, often for drilling into concrete.
What is a rotary hammer (drill)?
900
The safe ratio for the pitch of an extension ladder against a building or roofline.
What is a 4 to 1 ratio?
900
The name of the point where the two lines meet in an angle.
What is a vertex?
900
Standard interior studs are laid out at this dimension.
What is 16 inches on center?
900
To finish the phrase, "Measure twice, __________"
What is "cut once"?
1000
This tool offers a firmer grip than open ended wrenches.
What is a box end wrench?
1000
This hammer will drive those nails, but also hack some holes.
What is a drywall hammer?
1000
This electrical inline device is a circuit breaker that senses small imbalances in the circuit caused by current leakage to ground.
What is a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter or GFCI?
1000
The volume of a 9 inch cube.
What is 729 cubic inches?
1000
What are two common thicknesses of plywood?
What are 1/2" and 3/4" (also 1/4")?
1000
When given a drawing of a specific project to build, it's the very first thing you do.
What is figure out the cut list?