Q 01/05

Which supermodel won a chemical engineering scholarship to Northwestern but left after one quarter to model?

A) Christie Brinkley

B) Cindy Crawford

C) Claudia Schiffer

D) Elle Macpherson

Answer · why

B) Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford had graduated as valedictorian of DeKalb High School in Illinois in 1984. Her first cover, shot in her junior year there, was for a loc...

Q 02/05

Which actor who played Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV holds a master's degree in chemical engineering?

A) Dolph Lundgren

B) Jean-Claude Van Damme

C) Sylvester Stallone

D) Rutger Hauer

Answer · why

A) Dolph Lundgren

Dolph Lundgren earned the master's at the University of Sydney in 1982, after a first degree at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Q 03/05

Which drug did engineer Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau scale up in deep fermentation tanks for Pfizer in World War II?

A) Insulin

B) Streptomycin

C) Penicillin

D) Aspirin

Answer · why

C) Penicillin

Penicillin reached large-scale production through her deep-tank fermentation of the mould. In 1945 she became the first woman accepted as an active me...

Q 04/05

Which diaper brand did chemical engineer Victor Mills invent after tiring of changing his grandchild's cloth ones?

A) Huggies

B) Luvs

C) Pull-Ups

D) Pampers

Answer · why

D) Pampers

Pampers was the world's first widely marketed disposable diaper. Mills also improved the production of Ivory soap and oversaw the development of Pring...

Q 05/05

Which material, later used to seal uranium pipes in the Manhattan Project, did Roy Plunkett find by accident in 1938?

A) Teflon

B) Neoprene

C) Plexiglas

D) Silicone

Answer · why

A) Teflon

Teflon appeared as a whitish powder inside a pressurised gas cylinder that seemed to have emptied itself. Chemists found the waxy material oddly slipp...