This Engineering Trivia Will Build or Break You
1.
What "Black Adder" and "Mr. Bean" star studied Electrical Engineering in college?
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Rowan Atkinson
2.
Who piloted the first airplane to break the sound barrier?
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Chuck Yeager
3.
What co-founder of National Geographic was better known for his work in telephony?
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Alexander Graham Bell
4.
What 19th-century engineer devised an internal combustion engine which works without a spark plug?
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Rudolf Diesel
5.
What became, in 1946, the first operational general-purpose electronic computer?
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ENIAC
6.
What is the name for the point around which a lever rotates, allowing it to amplify work?
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Fulcrum
7.
What light-amplification device was first made operational in 1960, using a synthetic pink ruby?
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Laser
8.
What famous California bridge opened in 1937 and required the use of 80,000 miles of cable to build?
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The Golden Gate Bridge
9.
The IEEE is the professional society for what branch of engineering?
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Electrical Engineering
10.
In what U. S. state was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which collapsed in 1940?
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Washington
11.
What "Ecstasy" and "Samson and Delilah" actress patented a device to prevent enemy torpedo jamming?
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Hedy Lamarr
12.
What American engineer invented the cotton gin?
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Eli Whitney
13.
Which engineer's "towering" achievement debuted at the International Exposition at Paris in 1889?
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Gustav Eiffel
14.
Which United States President did graduate work in reactor technology and nuclear physics?
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Jimmy Carter
15.
Construction on what massive and controversial Chinese dam started in late 1994?
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Three Gorges Dam
16.
What simple machine can be described as an inclined plane wrapped around a pole?
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Screw
17.
What ship was both the first to sail under the North Pole and the first nuclear-powered submarine?
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USS Nautilus
18.
What tiny electricity amplifyier which can switch on and off was used in radios and computers?
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Transistor
19.
What unit of power, 1/746th horsepower or one volt times one amp, was named for a Scottish inventor?
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A Watt
20.
The Leyden jar was an early example of what device, used for storing electrical charge?
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Capacitor
21.
English military engineer Thomas Savery created what device which converts heated water to motion?
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Steam Engine
22.
Which Ancient Wonder of the World was over 100 meters high and stood until the 14th century?
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The Lighthouse Of Alexandria
23.
The Alex Fraser Bridge, opened in 1986, is located in which country?
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Canada
24.
What medical device uses echoes of high-frequency sound waves to produce images?
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Ultrasound
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