NPS Personnel
PDP Stuff
Math & Numbers
Acronyms
Potpourri
100

This exalted, Transportation Division team member is retiring at the end of 2022.

Who is Mike Morelli?

100

The _____ meeting gets a project started on the right path and also initiates a football game.

What is kickoff?

100

This mathematical constant sounds like a Thanksgiving dessert.

What is pi?

100

The spelled-out version of PDP stands for this at NPS.

What is Project Development Process?

100

Invasive and this “N” adjective are almost synonymous, with the latter meaning especially aggressive & harmful weeds.

What is noxious?

200

Sharing the name with a famous, retired Detroit Redwings goalie, this QA Branch member is a cost estimate wizard.

Who is Chris Osgood?

200

This tag line is commonly used both for the PDP and a very popular Tomato Sauce.

What is It's In There?

200

This is the number of distinct phases outlined in the PDP.

What is 4?

200

The PDP manual is located on this resource, often abbreviated as WWW.

What is the world wide web?

200

Cannibals won’t eat these circus performers because they taste funny.

What are clowns?

300

This country is the origin of Brent D’Angelo’s ancestors.

What is Italy?

300

A critical element of the Project ______ Report is identification of the available, unavailable and needed data for a project.

What is Scoping?

300

This number, one of the first 20, uses only one vowel (4 times!)

What is seventeen?

300

This acronym for the document that details the required tasks and deliverables of an A/E also means "HELP".

What is SOS?

300

The monetary threshold of a project that triggers the need for a formal Value Analysis process.

What is $1 million?

400

This “volunteer” institute is the alma mater of Chris Close.

What is the University of Tennessee?

400

This class of cost estimate is the most detailed of the three classes at NPS.

What is Class A?

400

The number of years that a Project Scoping Report is valid.

What is 2?

400

The long title of NEPA, which was enacted in 1970.

What is the National Environmental Policy Act?

400

This process is used to verify quality control measures are effective.

What is quality assurance?

500

Bri Weldon is an accomplished participant in this icy sport.

What is curling?

500

On Exhibit A, 3R and 4R are two available selections for project _______.

What is type?

500

This is supposedly "nine tenths of the law".

What is possession?

500

The LOA does this to FLTP funds.

What is obligate?

500

“Thunder only happens when it’s raining” is sung by this band. (this weather report is inaccurate)

Who is Fleetwood Mac?