| Definition | Word | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Second | 86%
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| Mass | Kilogram | 85%
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| Length | Metre | 85%
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| Electric Current | Ampere | 83%
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| Discovered/Invented the three laws of motion | Isaac Newton | 81%
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| Thermodynamic Temperature | Kelvin | 78%
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| The world's two largest civil aviation companies | Boeing | 62%
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| Amount of a substance | Mole | 52%
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| Inventor of the lightbulb | Thomas Edison | 49%
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| A compound containing at least one metal | Alloy | 47%
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| The world's two largest civil aviation companies | Airbus | 45%
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| The tallest man-made structure ever built | Burj Khalifa | 43%
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| The most common building material in the world (by mass) | Concrete | 41%
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| The opposite of compression | Tension | 39%
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| First man-made object to be put into Earth's orbit | Sputnik | 38%
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| Defined as stress divided by strain; a measure of a material's elastic stiffness | Young's Modulus | 33%
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| The father of modern computing; helped to crack the enigma code | Alan Turing | 28%
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| Element of a potential divider circuit | Resistor | 28%
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| Luminosity | Candela | 27%
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| The temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in all three phases at once | Triple point | 27%
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| Effectively a very small gap in a circuit | Capacitor | 26%
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| The process of using software to assist in product design | Computer-aided Design | 26%
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| Perfectly aligned microscopic lattice structure | Crystal | 23%
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| The most common long-term failure mechanism | Fatigue | 22%
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| The most common probability distribution | Normal | 22%
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| Effectively a tight coil of wire in a circuit | Inductor | 20%
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| Circuits are built on PCBs. What does PCB stand for? | Printed Circuit Board | 20%
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| The failure mode of a slender rod in compression | Buckling | 19%
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| The building block of any computing device | Transistor | 19%
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| The sum of kinetic and potential energy of the molecules of a substance | Internal Energy | 16%
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| A program that translates a high-level language into machine code | Compiler | 14%
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| Current hot topic where instead of writing code to perform a task, the code writes code to perform the task | Machine Learning | 11%
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| Using numerical methods to solve a complex set of equations for various purposes e.g. Finding the load distribution on a chassis | Finite Element Analysis | 10%
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| A process to be followed in calculations | Algorithm | 8%
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| Famous Scottish rotating boat lift | Falkirk Wheel | 5%
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| (Claimed) British Inventor of the Jet Engine | Frank Whittle | 5%
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| Flight regime of most civil aircraft, corresponding to subsonic speeds with areas of supersonic flow around the wings of a plane | Transsonic | 5%
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| Common data compression file type | ZIP file | 5%
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| An electrical insulator | Dielectric | 3%
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| The area of design concerning complex algorithm-following machinery | Robotics | 2%
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| Theorem used to give the maximum guaranteed safe loading on a structure | Lower Bound Theorem | 1%
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| Theorem used to give the minimum guaranteed failure loading on a structure | Upper Bound Theorem | 1%
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