Modern
What is the name of the scientific instrument used to measure temperature?
Thermometer
Which 19th century invention is used by doctors to check for broken bones?
Bonus: What year was this discovered?
X-Ray
Bonus: 1895
Who patented the first commercially successful lightbulb?
Bonus: In what year?
Thomas Edison
Bonus: 1879
In education, the acronym STEM stands for "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." When an A is added to form the acronym STEAM, what does the A stand for?
Arts
How did the Romans supply water to their towns?
Aqueducts
Homer Simpson may not have had a degree in it, but which atomic subfield of engineering would be helpful for someone working at a power plant?
Nuclear
Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the revolutionary V-type three-point version of what safety object in 1959?
The Seatbelt
Situated on the banks of the Red Sea, the 436-ft structure known as "Jeddah Light" is often cited as the tallest of what type of structure, despite the fact its primary purpose is as an observation tower?
Lighthouse
After he made history as the first man to walk on the moon, what astronaut served as a Professor of Aerospace Engineering from 1971 to 1979?
Bonus: At what University?
Neil Armstrong
Bonus: University of Cincinnati
The chemical property of BLANK-to-BLANK transition at the below-freezing water temperature was likely a contributor to the first and final voyage of the Titanic?
Ductile-to-Brittle
What device, an example of ancient engineering, uses stored potential energy to fling a projectile great distances without any propellant? It is sometimes referred to as a trebuchet.
Catapult
In civil engineering, Abrams’ law describes the strength of which type of building material that is composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together?
Concrete