STEM
This classical field of physics consists of kinematics & dynamics, not auto repairmen.
What is Mechanics?
This California structure designed in 1917 has an official color of "international orange."
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
Used in concrete, a typical American bodyweight is about 13 of these.
What is a Stone?
The Loma Prieta EQ occurred 30 min before the SF giants faced this MLB team for game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
What are the Oakland As?
Term for the tendency of some minerals to break along irregular lines; it sounds like what could happen to a bone.
What is a Fracture?
Be polite & give us the name of this engineering branch that specializes in the design & creation of public works.
What is Civil Engineering?
This suspension bridge built in 1940 experienced a failure attributed to mechanical resonance.
What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not a unit of time, this unit represents a distance of 3.26 light years.
In 1929, this football stadium was constructed over the Hayward Fault.
What is the Berkeley Memorial Stadium?
The meltwater from these is often grayish-white because of the powdered rock they contain.
What is a Glacier?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Possibly the most famous imaginary animal in physics, this famous feline exists in a superposition of states.
Sometimes mistaken for London Bridge, this bridge over the river Thames has two drawbridges that can be raised to allow ships to pass through.
What is the Towers Bridge?
You’ll hear them rattling, a furlong is defined as 10 of these.
What is a Chain?
Following a touchdown by this NFL team, cheers from fans was registered as a magnitude 2.0 earthquake on a nearby seismometer known as the “beast quake”.
What are the Seattle Seahawks?
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Zhang Heng made an early type of this device; adorned with dragon heads, it registered when the ground shook.
What is a Seismometer?
This ancient Greek's "Elements" was a pivotal text in the development of geometry.
What is Euclid?
Although a Myth, the “Iron” in the Iron rings worn by graduates of many Canadian Civil Engineering graduates is said to have come from this.
What is the Quebec Bridge?
Not a slimy mollusc, this unit is defined as the mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s^2 when 1 lb of force is applied.
What is a Slug?
The Kashima Soccer stadium, built on base isolators, served as a shelter following this 2011 Japanese earthquake
What is the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake?
This earthquake measurement scale is open-ended though none has been recorded above 8.9 (and you should never use it).
What is a Richter Scale?
Texas Tech has a department devoted to this engineering branch that focuses on the exploitation of oil & gas reserves.
What is petroleum engineering?
Completed in 2010, this bridge holds the current Guinness world record for the longest bridge.
What is the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge?
About 5 foot 7 inches, this unit of measurement was used by MIT students to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge.
What is a Smoot?
Seismometers are placed near Dürrboden ski slopes in Davos Switzerland and other resorts to detect this hazard.
What is an Avalanche?
The Mohorovicic & Gutenberg discontinuities mark the boundaries of this layer found below the crust.
What is the mantle?