Everyday Engineering
This thermodynamic quantity is commonly described as a system's "disorder," and always tends to increase in a closed system
What is entropy?
The religious figure atop the Golden Dome
Who is Mary?
This molecule, composed of one carbon and four hydrogen atoms, is dozens of times more potent of a greenhouse gas than CO2 and is primarily released by the agriculture industry
What is methane (CH4)?
This 34 second song from A Minecraft Movie is the shortest song to ever enter the UK's Official Top 40 chart
What is Steve's Lava Chicken?
This computer security measure is fundamental to the operation of a number of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin
What is blockchain?
Across the road from the peace plaza by the lake sits this famous Notre Dame sacred space, a 1:7 scale replica of the original in Lourdes, France
What is the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes?
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 country singer, known for hits such as Something in the Orange, will be performing at Notre Dame this September
Who is Zach Bryan?
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 year women were first allowed to attend Notre Dame
What is 1972?
The three components of Freud's structural model of the psyche, whose names come from the Latin words for "it," "I," and "above I"
What are the id, ego, and superego?
In May of this year, this tennis player became the first person to win at least one ATP singles title in twenty consecutive seasons
Who is Novak Djokovic?
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 maximum capacity of Notre Dame Stadium (rounded to the nearest 5,000)
What is 80,000?
The two elements discovered by Marie Curie, which resulted in both her Nobel Prize as well as her premature death due to radiation poisoning
What are Radium and Polonium?
Just a few weeks ago, this Indian American from Uganda became the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City in a surprise defeat over Andrew Cuomo
Who is Zohran Mamdani?
Defined technically, an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis
What is a screw?
The first wireless transmission in North America was sent from this building
What is the Basilica of the Sacred Heart?
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?
In March of this year, this novel was released, marking the biggest debut for any title in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series
What is Sunrise on the Reaping?