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?
The actual definition of Spanish "embarazada," despite looking like the English word "embarassed"
What is "pregnant"?
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?
The brother and sister colleges of Notre Dame
What are Saint Mary's College and Holy Cross College?
This dormant volcano is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
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?
Name one of the astronauts on the recent Artemis mission that went around the moon
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen
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 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?
How many stomachs does a cow have?
One
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?
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?
Who is the author of Dune?
Frank Herbert
3 of the twelve official languages of South Africa
What are five of the following: English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Sepedi, Tswana, Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda, Ndebele, South African Sign