Materials Engineering

Venice made the recipe for one material, a state secret in the middle ages. Which one? (Source:https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• Wood

• Glass

• Plaster

• Clay

What metal cries if you bend it? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• Cooper

• Silver

• Gold

• Tin

Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, in 2000? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain

• Shakira, Ronaldinho and Maluma

• Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa

• Brendan Fraser, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh

Where can you see the world's first iron bridge? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• At a town called Iron Bridge, near Coalbrookdale, in England.

• At a town called Copper Bridge, near Coalbrookdale, in Brazil.

• At a town called Silver Bridge, near Coalbrookdale, in the USA.

• At a town called Golden Gate Bridge, near Hollywood, in San Francisco.

What historical age, which marks the beginning of human civilization, is named for an alloy? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• The Nickel Age

• The Silver Age

• The Bronze Age

• The Golden Age

What is the largest, commonly encountered molecule? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• A golf ball

• A bowling ball

• A ping poing ball

• A rubber ball

The properties of aluminum (low density, ease of processing) are very attractive to automakers. How many pounds of aluminum, on average, are used in an automobile? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• 350 pounds

• 150 pounds

• 450 pounds

• 250 pounds

What household material was discovered in a scrap heap? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• Cooper

• Nickel

• Iron

• Stainless Steel

Which 20th Century Soviet leader was a metallurgist? (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• Leonel Brizola

• Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie

What medieval Asian ruler's name meant "iron worker?" (Source: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/aboutus/quiz)

• Genghis Khan

• Antonio Banderas

• Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger

• Lionel Messi