Heavy Machinery
A machine used to spin a part around an axis of rotation
What is a lathe?
A threaded connector that is also one of the six simple machine
What is a screw?
The number of stomachs cows have
What is four?
Winner of two Nobel prizes in the early 1900s for her studies of radioactivity
Who is Marie Curie?
Phosphine was recently discovered on ____ and is being heralded as a possible sign of life
What is Venus?
A machine used to add cylindrical holes to objects by moving along the z axis
What is a drill press?
A tool consisting of a weighted “head” and a long handle that is used for driving, shaping, and breaking
What is a hammer?
The official name of the building known as the Death Star
What is the Social Sciences and Humanities Building?
Mathematician who calculated the trajectories that NASA used to launch astronauts into space in the 1960s
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This anagram of COCAINE ALERT is also the derivative of velocity
What is acceleration?
The number of teeth per inch on a band saw
What is pitch?
A cutting tool that can be inserted into a drill press, lathe, or milling machine to make holes in a surface
What is a drill bit?
Chancellor Gary May’s favorite TV show
What is Star Trek?
X-ray crystallographer who provided the evidence that Watson and Crick needed to determine the structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
There are ten times more of this type of organism in the human body than human cells
What are bacteria?
A saw used for straight lines and cutting through thicker wooden materials
What is a circular saw?
A pointed tool used to scratch lines into metal parts
What is a scribe?
The number of monkeys in the UC Davis Primate Center
What is four thousand?
Latina entrepreneur who led the expansion of Twitter en español
Who is Laura I. Gomez?
A comet recently visible from Earth
What is NEOWISE?
A wobbling tool inserted into a milling machine’s collet to identify the x and y positions of vertical surfaces
What is an edgefinder?
A hand tool used to copy patterns of holes from a template part to another part
What is a transfer punch?
The yurt housing community made for UC Davis students, also known as Baggins End
What are the UC Davis Domes?
Computer scientist and trans activist who invented generalized dynamic instruction handling and is credited with the revolution in very large scale integration
Who is Lynn Conway?
Mercury and ________ are the only two elements of the periodic table that are liquid at room temperature
What is bromine?