History of Engineering
The first satellite launched into space.
What is sputnik?
This unit of measure represents resistance in an electrical circuit.
What is an Ohm?
The tallest building in the world standing at 2,722 feet tall.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
The name of a triangle with 3 different length sides.
What is scalene?
The year Tau Beta Pi was founded.
When is 1885?
This person invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison
The name of the positive end of an LED
The longest bridge in the world spanning 102.4 miles located in China.
What is the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge?
The formula used to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
What is A^2+B^2=C^2?
The name of Mickey Mouse's pet dog.
Who is Pluto?
What is ENIAC?
The ENIAC weight almost 50 tons.
The measurement of how much electricity is flowing throw a wire.
What is an amp?
This US dam was finished in 1936 and was constructed using 4,360,000 cubic yards on concrete.
What is the Hoover Dam?
The third angle of an isosceles triangle with two angles measuring 35 degrees.
What is 110 degrees?
Before the 17th century, these vegetables used to be mainly purple, not the bright warm color we see them as today.
What is a carrot?
The word "engineer" comes from this Latin word.
What is ingeniare? ("to create, generate, contrive, devise")
What is ingenium? ("cleverness")
What is 1?
The name of the track technology the fastest train in the world uses.
What is Maglev?
A two-dimensional shape with 7-equal sides
What is a heptagon?
The name of the game famously played in Wimbledon.
What is Tennis?
An engineering organization organized in 1775 by the US government.
What is the US Army Corps of Engineers?
The value of this resistor:
1st band: Brown
2nd band: Green
3rd band: Orange
What is 15k ohms?
This president commissioned the US Interstate network.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
The equation that represents roots of a quadratic equation.
What is (-b+-sqrt(b^2-4ac))/(2a)?
The winner of this year's March Madness Tournament.
What is UConn?