TBP
Riddles
Shakespeare
UCSD Engineering
Engineering Questions
100
The UC San Diego Chapter of TBP
What is CA Psi
100
What has 3 feet but cannot walk?
What is a yardstick
100
A tragedy where a prince takes revenge on his uncle
What is Hamlet
100
The nickname for the computer labs in the CS building
What is the Dungeon
100
This type of DNA is inherited solely from the mother.
What is mitochondrial DNA
200
A famous TBP alumni is the second astronaut to walk the moon
Who is Buzz Aldrin
200
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender reaches under the bar and brings out a gun and aims it at the man. The man says thank you and leaves. What happened?
He had the hiccups
200
Juliet's cousin's name
Who is Tybalt
200
The dean of the Jacob's School of Engineering
Who is Albert Pisano
200
This type of fluid flow has no viscosity.
What is inviscid flow
300
The UC San Diego chapter of Tau Beta Pi was founded in this year.
What is 1994
300
What has arms and legs but no head?
What is a chair
300
The number of daughters King Lear had
What is three
300
An event TESC holds for middle schoolers each year
What is ENSPIRE
300
This device converts AC power to DC power.
What is a rectifier.
400
This is the university that Tau Beta Pi was first established at.
What is Lehigh University
400
One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden, a snowball came crashing through his window. Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids run around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson. The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read “? Crimson. He broke your window.” Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
Who is Mark Johnson
400
Shakespeare's first play
What is Henry VI, Part One
400
The ceremony engineers take part in when they graduate
What is the Order of the Engineer/Ring Ceremony
400
The ratio of internal thermal resistance of a solid body to its surface thermal resistance
What is the biot number
500
In this year, the first chapter of Tau Beta Pi was founded.
What is 1885
500
A man was found dead in his study. He was slumped over his desk and a gun was in his hand. There was a cassette recorder on his desk. When the police entered the room and pressed the play button on the tape recorder they heard: "I can't go on. I have nothing to live for." Then there was the sound of a gunshot. How did the detective immediately know that the man had been murdered and it wasn't a suicide?
It was rewound.
500
A comedy about mistaken identities; Benedick, Beatrice, Don Pedro and Hero are some of the characters
What is Much Ado About Nothing
500
Place where engineers and scientists fabricate nanoscale devices.
What is Nano3/Atkinson Hall
500
The decimal equivalent to the two's complement binary number: 1101
What is -3?