THHS Aerospace Jeopardy!!!

Newton died for this

100

Newton's Second Law

What is the law of acceleration?

or

What is Fnet = ma?

200

A quantity that measures the strength of the tendency of a moving object to continue its motion in the same direction with the same speed.

What is momentum?

300

Force that acts opposite the direction of lift

What is gravity?

400

Kinetic Energy

What is the energy an object has due to its motion?

or

What is (1/2)mv²

500

A cart weighing 20kg moving at 2m/s collides and sticks to another cart weighing 10kgs. What is the total momentum of the 20kg cart system after the collision.

What is 27kgm/s?

Ah... flight

100

A smaller representation of the aerospace vehicle we have been discussing for the past 3 months. Also the thing that we are going to be building.

What is a model rocket?

200

The force that acts against the force of gravity in a rocket.

What is lift

300

The force that acts against the motion of a rocket in flight

What is drag/air resistance?

400

Part of a rocket that generates lift

What are fins?

500

States that pressure will be higher if the speed of the fluid around it is faster

What is Bernoulli's Principle?

The parts of a rocket

100

This part of a rocket generates thrust

What is the engine/motor?

200

This helps to minimize aerodynamic resistance.

What is the nose cone?

300

This is the piece of the rocket in which combustion occurs

What is the engine (combustion chamber)?

400

In rocket engine, this is what provides the thrust when it combusts with oxygen and is ejected out from the rear of the rocket.

What is fuel?

500

Examples of these include a parachute, streamer and helicopter.

What is a recovery method?

Vaguely related to aerospace facts

100

The name of the NASA program that allowed humans to go to the moon

What is the Apollo Program?

200

What NASA stands for

What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

300

"to fly" in Latin

What is volo, volare, volavi, volatum?

or I'd probably take

What is fugio, fugere, fugi, fugiturum?

400

The first, second, and third guys on the moon. 

Who are Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Charles (Pete) Conrad?

500

Mass of the ISS in kg

What is 450,000 kg (anywhere from 100,000 to 1 million kg) will be accepted

Misc.

100

The name of the first satellite to reach space?

What is Sputnik?

200

The advisor to this club

Who is Mark McHugh?

300

The name of the NASA mission that aims to return humans to the moon by mid-2027?

What is Artemis?

400

The names of all the board members in this club.

Who are Anthony, Areesh, Yugesh, Bradley, Johnson, and Wilson?

500

The name of the inventor responsible for the first liquid-fueled rocket?

Who is Robert Goddard?