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100

The name of the cybersecurity threat is where nefarious actors trick others into revealing sensitive information.

Social Engineering

100

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

Steve Wozniak

100

Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the revolutionary V-type three-point version of what safety object in 1959.


Seatbelt

100

In education, the acronym STEM stands for "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." When an A is added to form the acronym STEAM, what does the A stand for?

Arts

200

What New Orleans structure failed in August 2005, leading to claims of "the worst engineering disaster in the world since Chernobyl?"

Levees

200

After he made history as the first man to walk on the moon, what astronaut served as a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979?

Neil Armstrong

200

How many zeros are there in a googol?

100 zeros

200

The University of Cambridge offered the first degree in computer science but what Midwestern university had the country’s first computer science department? The school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Purdue University

300

Which state is the lightning capital of the nation

Florida

300

Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what speedy meeting company in 2011? The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.

Zoom

300

Which was invented first, the telephone or the lightbulb

The telephone was invented in 1876, while the lightbulb was invented in 1879

300

Better known as the maker of Galaxy smartphones, what Korean conglomerate was also the main contractor that built Dubai's Burj Khalifa?

Samsung

400

"Liber Abaci," or "Book of the Abacus" introduced Euro audiences to the golden ratio-like sequence of what Italian math dude?

Fibonacci

400

FPL was incorporated in December 1925. And In January 1926, FPL replaced what Electric company.

The Miami Beach Electric company.

400

Who made the first electric light bulb?

Humphry Davy

400

The Word Engineer Comes from the Latin Word for What?

Ingeniare (To create, generate, contrive, devise)

Ingenium (cleverness)