RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Boni Ave., City of Mandaluyong

College of Engineering and Industrial Technology
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

2nd YEAR LEVEL CIVIL ENGINEERING QUIZ BEE

QUESTIONNAIRE

EASY:

1. This mathematician made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics. Who is
this known as the father of logarithms?

ANSWER: JOHN NAPIER

2. What is a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected?

ANSWER: CATALYST

3. A leak from a faucet comes out in separate drops. It is caused by the molecular cohesive forces in a
fluid. What is the main cause of this phenomenon?

ANSWER: SURFACE TENSION

4. What is the sum of the first 1000 odd positive whole numbers?

ANSWER: 1,000,000

5. What do you call a group of frogs?

ANSWER: ARMY
6. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” is one of the famous quotations of this
well-known philosopher. Who is he?

ANSWER: MAHATMA GANDHI

7. What type of curve is generated by a point which moves in a uniform circular motion about an axis,
while traveling with a constant speed v, parallel to the axis?

ANSWER: HELIX

8. A sphere is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space, such as the shape of a
round ball. What do you call to the half of a sphere?
 ANSWER: HEMISPHERE

9. What is a word that is form by joining the first letters or the first few letters of a series of words called?

ANSWER: ACRONYMS

10. What is a number that has only two factors: itself and one?

ANSWER: PRIME NUMBER

11. In chemistry and physics, the Avogadro constant is defined as the ratio of the number of constituent
particles usually atoms or molecules in a sample to the amount of substance, unit mole through a
relationship. What is the value of this Avogadro’s number?

ANSWER: 6.02×1023

12. What is the property that can be proved?

ANSWER: THEOREM

13. 45010 is equivalent to what binary number?

ANSWER: 1110000102

14. Find the second derivative of y = ln (sec x + tan x).

ANSWER: sec x tan x

a
15. If a is a simple constant, what is the derivative of y=x ?
a-1
ANSWER: ax dx

AVERAGE:
1. Find the slope of the tangent to a parabola, y=x2 , at a point on the curve where x= 0.5.

ANSWER: 1

2. Find two numbers whose sum is 70, such that the first divided by the second gives a quotient of 2 and a
remainder of 1.

ANSWER: 23 and 47
xy
3. What is the natural logarithm of e ?

ANSWER: XY

4. A transit set up 112.1 feet from the base of a vertical chimney reads 32 degrees 30 minutes with the
cross hairs set on the top of the chimney. With the telescope level, the vertical rod at the base of the
chimney is 5.1 ft. how tall is the chimney?
 ANSWER: 76.5 ft.

5. What is the value of x in the equation log x 81 = 4?

ANSWER: 3

6. If the second derivative of the equation of a curve is proportional to the negative of the equation of the
same curve, what is that curve?

ANSWER: SINUSOID / SINUSOIDAL CURVE

7. How long in minutes must a current of 5.0 amperes pass through a 10 ohm resistor until a charge of
1200 coulombs passes through?

ANSWER: 4 MINUTES

8. Building bricks are closely staked in a pile 7ft high, 36ft long and 12ft wide. If the bricks are 2in by 4in
by 9 in how many bricks are in the pile?

ANSWER: 72, 526 PIECES OF BRICKS

9. Find the volume of the largest pyramid that can be cut from a rectangular parallelepiped whose edges
are 2 in by 3 in by 4 in?

ANSWER: 8 CUBIC INCHES

10. This term as used in surveying is sometimes referred to as the deviation and is defined as the
difference between any measured value of a quantity and its most probable value.

ANSWER: RESIDUAL

11. Determine the inverse of the function.

ANSWER:

12. Determine the combined effect of the earth’s curvature and atmospheric refraction on sight distances of
60 meters.

ANSWER: 0.000243 m.

13. The world's tallest structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building gained the
official title of "Tallest Building in the World" at its opening on January 4, 2010. What is the height
measured in feet of this man-made structure?

ANSWER: 2723 ft.

14. What is the longest word in English that doesn’t contain one of the five vowels?

ANSWER: TWYNDYLLINGS

15. Determine the points of intersection of y = 2x2 -3 and y = 2x-3.

 ANSWER: (0, -3) AND (1, -1)

DIFFICULT:

1. A turning point along a profile level route measures 126.44 m. beyond station 8+24.50. Determine the
stationing of the turning point if it is instead located 83.45 m. before the given reference station.

ANSWER: 741.05 m. or 7+41.05 m.

2. A cubical container that measures 2 inches on a side is tightly packed with 8 marbles and is filled with
water. All 8 marbles are in contact with the walls of the container and the adjacent marbles. All of the
marbles are the same size. What is the volume of water in the container?

ANSWER: 3.81 in3

3. A stadia rod held at a distant point B is sighted by an instrument set up at A. the upper and lower stadia
hair readings were observed as 1.3 m. and 0.90 m. respectively. If the stadia interval factor is 100, and
the instrument constant is 0, determine the length of line AB.

ANSWER: 40 m.

4. At approximately what time between the hours of 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. would the angle between
the hour hand and the minute hand of a continuously driven clock be exactly 180o ?

ANSWER: APPROXIMATELY 12:33 P.M.

5. What is the power required to transfer 97,000 coulombs of charge through a potential rise of 50 volts I
one hour?

ANSWER: 1.34 KW

6. A 30 m. tape is supported only at its end and under a steady pull of 8 kg. If the tape weighs 0.91 kg.,
determine the sag correction and the correct distance between the ends of the tape.

ANSWER: 29.9838 m.

7. What is the weight of a block of ice 24in. by 24 in. by 24 in. if ice weights 92% as much as water, and
water weights 62.5 lb. per ft.?

ANSWER: 8 ft. 3

8. For the parabola given by, find its vertex.

ANSWER: (-1 , -5)

9. The population of a colony of bacteria doubles every 5 hours. If 1000 bacteria are present initially, how
many bacteria does the colony contain after 2 days?

ANSWER: 776, 047 BACTERIA

10. What is the solution of the equation 50x2 + 5(x-2)2 = -1?

ANSWER: NO SOLUTION