Concrete Evidence
The three most basic ingredients of concrete are cement, aggregate, and this clear liquid.
What is water?
According to the official Pokémon lore, this iconic Electric-type is categorized as the "Mouse Pokémon."
What is Pikachu?
This civilization is often credited with pioneering modern urban planning.
What is the Roman Empire?
Rearrange the letters in "ORADS" to find the very things a transportation engineer designs.
What are ROADS?
28 employees: 22 righties, 5 lefties. This employee is your only truly ambidextrous coworker.
Who is Cassie?
This two-letter text abbreviation is standard on civil utility plans to designate a proposed underground sanitary sewer line.
What is SS?
The sworn enemy of Professor X, this iron-willed Marvel supervillain is known for his purple garb and metal helmet.
Who is Magneto?
This fruit is slightly radioactive due to its high potassium content.
What is the Banana?
This speedy 7-letter word reads exactly the same backward and forward.
What is Racecar?
Like clockwork, this employee wakes up at 5:55 AM.
Who is Jeff?
This type of earthen structure or pond is engineered to temporarily hold stormwater runoff, slowly releasing it to prevent downstream flooding.
What is a detention basin?
This iconic spaceship's name is actually an acronym for "Time and Relative Dimension in Space."
What is the TARDIS?
According to a group of Purdue engineering students, the answer is actually 252 licks! But what type of pop started advertising in 1969 that the world may never know how many it takes to get to its center?
What is the Tootsie Pop?
While humans do this when they are highly stressed or nervous, civil engineers intentionally design steel beams to do it safely under heavy loads.
What is flex?
We listen and don't judge: this employee had 860 unread emails in their work inbox at the time of filling out their questionnaire.
Who is Bhanu?
The range of acceptable shoulder widths.
What is 2' to 12'?
This classic DnD monster is the embodiment of chaos, prince of demons, and was the inspiration for the name of the main antagonist for the first season of Stranger Things.
What is Demogorgon?
This is the 10th brightest star in the night sky, positioned at the end of Orion's left hand. Hint: say it 3 times to summon chaos from the Netherworld.
What is Betelgeuse?
In English class, it is a sudden break in a sentence; on a construction site, it is a vertical drop in a pipe or a retaining wall to handle steep slopes.
What is step?
This employee's childhood fear of having their shoelaces eaten by escalators has not only continued to haunt them through adulthood, but it has also become a cautionary tale in parenthood.
Who is Austin?
This term is a measure of traffic flow quality provided by a highway or street.
What is Level of Service?
This five-letter name is shared by a realm in Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" series and a Disney+ show starring Diego Luna as a thief turned rebel.
What is Andor?
Having roamed the oceans for over 450 million years, this class of predatory marine fish is evolutionarily older than both trees and Saturn's rings.
What are sharks?
What is Brainy?
Partygoers have used words like "mildly invigorating" and "neat" to describe this employee's yo-yo tricks.
Who is Judah?