Q 01/05

Which Australian landmark opened ten years late in 1973, at more than fourteen times its original budget?

A) Sydney Harbour Bridge

B) Snowy Mountains Scheme

C) Sydney Opera House

D) Parliament House

Answer · why

C) Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon resigned in 1966 after rows over cost and delay, leaving an Australian team led by Peter Hall to complete his ...

Q 02/05

The Agile framework Scrum takes its name from which sport, via a 1986 Harvard Business Review paper?

A) Lacrosse

B) Rugby

C) Hockey

D) Curling

Answer · why

B) Rugby

Rugby inspired the name: authors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka likened the best development teams to players who go the distance as a unit, pas...

Q 03/05

Jira, the issue tracker used by software teams, is named after the Japanese name of which movie monster?

A) Mothra

B) Gamera

C) King Kong

D) Godzilla

Answer · why

D) Godzilla

Godzilla is Gojira in Japanese, and Jira keeps the last two syllables. Atlassian's developers had used the nickname for Bugzilla, the bug tracker they...

Q 04/05

Which adage, coined in a 1955 Economist essay, says that work expands to fill the time available?

A) Parkinson's law

B) Murphy's law

C) Yerkes-Dodson law

D) Moore's law

Answer · why

A) Parkinson's law

Parkinson's law grew out of naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson's experience of the British Civil Service. His follow-up 'law of triviality' gave u...

Q 05/05

Which American engineer popularised, around 1910, the bar chart of tasks against time that bears his surname?

A) Frederick Taylor

B) Frank Gilbreth

C) Henry Gantt

D) Harrington Emerson

Answer · why

C) Henry Gantt

Henry Gantt popularised the chart around 1910–1915, but Karol Adamiecki had devised a similar 'harmonogram' in 1896 and published it only in Russian a...