Engineering Trivia
From ancient stone tools to space rockets, prove you’ve got the nuts, bolts, and brainpower to engineer your way to victory.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Which 1913 innovation at Ford’s Highland Park plant cut Model T build time from over 12 hours to about 1.5 hours, slashing its cost dramatically?
Moving assembly line
In most commercial nuclear reactors, which element’s nuclei are split in a fission reaction to produce heat for electricity generation?
Uranium
What curved stone design, perfected by Roman engineers, allowed them to build longer, more durable bridges?
Arch
Sometimes called “frozen smoke,” which ultralight material is up to 99.8% air and holds the title of the lightest solid on Earth?
Aerogel
Completed in 1936 in Black Canyon on the Nevada–Arizona border, the Hoover Dam was built over which river?
Colorado River