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200
He invented the light bulb.

Who is Thomas Edison?

200

This term is often used to describe the fast Japanese trains.

What is a Bullet train?

200

Building material that is composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together.

What is concrete? 

200

This controversial structure, built along China's Yangtze River, became the world's largest power station in 2012 and is also the world's largest concrete structure.

What is the Three Gorges Dam?

200

Hatch does business in these three business sectors.

What is Metals, Energy, and Infrastructure?

400

Inventor of the first computer.

Who is Charles Babbage?

400

This organism was the first to space.

What is a fruit fly?

400

This chemical makes up the majority of petroleum by weight.

What is Carbon?

400

This supersonic passenger airliner more than halved travel times from London to New York. It is not in operation anymore. 

What is the Concorde?

600

Named after a German engineer born in 1832, the name of the idealized thermodynamic cycle that is the typical cycle used by internal combustion engines.

What is the Otto Cycle?

600

Sonar is a technique used to detect objects underwater. Sonar is short for ___.

What is Sound Navigation Ranging?

600

The resistance of stainless steel to rusting is due to the presence of this element with atomic number 24.

What is Chromium?

600

This field of engineering work with things like glass, ceramics, metals, polymers, and nanocrystals, and even discover (or make) new substances?

What is Materials Engineering? 

800

Often known as "Woz" for short, this electronics engineer co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, and also competed on Season 8 of "Dancing With the Stars?".

Who is Steve Wozniak?

800

The first satellite was put into orbit in year ___. 

What is 1959? 

800

Hatch was one of the consultants for this latest Manitoba Hydro Generating Station.

What is Keeyask Generating Station?

800

This field of study is the predominate focus in the current generation of Formula 1 racing cars. Think about what an object (like an airplane) does to the air around it.

What is aerodynamics?