TSA History and Knowledge
Engineering
Recent Tech Developments
World Technology/Architecture
Tech History
100

Name 3 speech related TSA events.

Chapter Team, Debating Tech, Digi Vid, On Demand, Extemp Speech, Future Tech Teacher, Prepared Presentation.
100

What is the standard unit of force?

Newtons

100

What technology did the popular game, Pokemon Go, employ to make it look as if Pokemon were, on your phone screen, actually in the real world?

Augmented Reality

100

What is the suspension bridge that spans the strait between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific ocean called?

The Golden Gate Bridge

100

Who introduced the first IPhone in 2007?

Steve Jobs

200

Who is the current TSA national president?

Sean Kuehn

200

What is the name of the nuclear process of splitting an atom?

Nuclear Fission

200

Which app/website was used by Russian officials to polarize American citizens through the use of targeted ads?

Facebook

200

A feat of modern architecture, what is the tallest building in the world?

Burj Khalifa

200

Give the full name of one of the brothers who invented the airplane.

Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

300

Where was TSA nationals held last year?

National Harbor, Maryland

300

What does CAD stand for?

Computer Aided Design

300

Which type of computing uses physics to encode information as "qubits" which allow for computers to work far faster?

Quantum Computing

300

1776 Feet tall, what is the tallest building in New York?

The One World Trade Center

300

Which country invented gunpowder around 900 AD?

China

400

Who are the current Virginia TSA state treasurer and parliamentarian?

Sahil Jaiswal and Cecelia Johnson

400
Which tool in a workshop rapidly spins an object you affix to it?

The lathe

400

What is the name of Jeff Bezos's new space company?

Blue Origin

400

Some of the first underwater trains, what are the trains from London to Paris called?

The Chunnel Trains

400

Who was the prominent inventor 19th/20th century inventor who invented alternating current?

Nikola Tesla

500

What 5 letter acronym was TSA's original name?

AIASA

500

What are the 4 primary steps of a 4 stroke engine?

Intake, compression, power, exhaust

500
What is the name of the Chess-playing AI creating by DeepMind, a company under Google?

Alpha Zero

500
Located in China, what is the world's most powerful hydroelectric dam?

The Three Gorges Dam

500

Who invented the process of pasteurization in the 1860s?

Louis Pasteur