Everyday Engineering
This number system, fundamental to modern computing, uses only two symbols (0 and 1) to represent information and perform calculations
What is Binary?
The religious figure atop the Golden Dome
Who is Mary?
The organelle that facilitates the process of photosynthesis in plant cells
What is a chloroplast?
The tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs, who is in winning "era"
Who is Travis Kelce?
This structure, typically used in wings, generates lift by creating a difference in air pressure between its upper and lower surfaces
What is an airfoil?
The Notre Dame Grotto is a 1:7 scale replica of the Grotto of Our Lady in Lourde, a city in this country
What is France?
This novel vaccine technology, exemplified by the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, uses genetic instructions to stimulate the immune system and protect against diseases
What is an mRNA vaccine?
This infamous Japanese dish, if prepared incorrectly, can kill you
What is pufferfish/fugu?
This computer security measure is fundamental to the operation of a number of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin
What is blockchain?
The maximum capacity of Notre Dame Stadium (rounded to the nearest 5,000)
What is 80,000?
The three components of Freud's structural model of the psyche, whose names come from the Latin words for "it," "I," and "above"
What are the id, ego, and superego?
The third most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and English
What is Hindi?
This structural element of beams, bars, or rods, often used in bridge construction, can be described as a rigid triangular framework
What is a Truss?
The year women were first allowed to attend Notre Dame
What is 1972?
The two elements discovered Marie Curie, which resulted in both her Nobel Prize as well as her premature death due to radiation poisoning
What are Radium and Polonium?
This country's team, comprised entirely of software engineers, beat Pakistan in the 2024 Cricket World Cup
What is the USA?
Defined technically, an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis
What is a screw?
The official name of Notre Dame's alma mater (in English)
What is "Notre Dame, Our Mother"?
This elementary particle, discovered in 2012 at CERN, is associated with imparting mass to other particles in the Standard Model of particle physics
What is the Higgs Boson?
Living nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus, this Norse explorer is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America
Who is Leif Erikson?