TV Personalities
Nexus Department Habits
Sayings Throughout History
Engineering
The Write Way
100

He was known for "happy little trees".

Bob Ross

100

Steel, Concrete & Beams

Civil/Structural

100

A piece of this, means it's easy or trivial.

Cake

100

Finish this equation: Force equals mass times this.

acceleration

100

This dystopian novel boasts a year as it's title, and provides a commentary on authoritarian governments and "doublespeak".

1984

200

Host of an outdoor survival based social game-show.

Jeff Probst

200

Obsessed with 3D models & Pipe Stress Analysis

Mechanical

200

You might be burning this, if you're working late.

Midnight Oil

200

The measure of the instantaneous rate of change of a function is called this.

Derivative

200

In the high-fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings", this giant spider dwells in a tunnel near Cirith Ungol.

Shelob

300

Fictional character Josh Nichols of "Drake & Josh" humorously quipped "She's an inspiration!" about this real-life talk show host, and if you went on her show, you might even win a car.

Oprah Winfrey

300

Might ask you to strike a pose.

Marketing

300
Look to bury this, if you want to make amends.

Hatchet

300

This useful trick is often used in physics to find the direction of magnetic fields, forces & electric currents.

right-hand rule
300

Originally portrayed by the famous actor Alan Rickman in the Harry Potter film series, this fictional professor was secretly in love with the mother of “the boy who lived.”

Severus Snape

400

He was the original host of the gameshow that famously asked "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".

Regis Philbin

400

This department might put up some resistance.

Electrical

400

You might think to accuse someone of stealing this, if you're feeling cheated.

Thunder

400

This is a simplified visual representation used in physics to show all the external forces acting on a single, isolated object.

Free-body Diagram

400
"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore" is the most famous refrain for the 1845 narrative poem by this famous writer.

Edgar Allen Poe

500

This famous female comedian, writer, and former late night sketch comedy show cast member created and starred in the show "30 Rock".

Tina Fey

500

Always measuring things.

I&C

500

Meaning to not discard something valuable with the unwanted: Don't throw this out with the bathwater.

The Baby

500

This mathematician and physicist is famous for the principle describing how the pressure, speed, and height of a flowing fluid are related.

Daniel Bernoulli

500

This type of paper, often assigned to students, presents a claim and supports it with evidence and reasoning intended to persuade the reader.

Argumentative Essay