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Definition	Word	% Correct
Length	Metre	86%
Time	Second	86%
Electric Current	Ampere	85%
Mass	Kilogram	85%
Discovered/Invented the three laws of motion	Isaac Newton	82%
Thermodynamic Temperature	Kelvin	79%
The world's two largest civil aviation companies	Boeing	63%
Amount of a substance	Mole	53%
Inventor of the lightbulb	Thomas Edison	50%
A compound containing at least one metal	Alloy	49%
The world's two largest civil aviation companies	Airbus	45%
The tallest man-made structure ever built	Burj Khalifa	44%
The most common building material in the world (by mass)	Concrete	42%
The opposite of compression	Tension	41%
First man-made object to be put into Earth's orbit	Sputnik	38%
Defined as stress divided by strain; a measure of a material's elastic stiffness	Young's Modulus	33%
Element of a potential divider circuit	Resistor	30%
The father of modern computing; helped to crack the enigma code	Alan Turing	28%
The temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in all three phases at once	Triple point	28%
Luminosity	Candela	27%
Effectively a very small gap in a circuit	Capacitor	27%
The process of using software to assist in product design	Computer-aided Design	25%
Perfectly aligned microscopic lattice structure	Crystal	24%
The most common long-term failure mechanism	Fatigue	22%
The most common probability distribution	Normal	22%
Circuits are built on PCBs. What does PCB stand for?	Printed Circuit Board	22%
Effectively a tight coil of wire in a circuit	Inductor	20%
The building block of any computing device	Transistor	20%
The failure mode of a slender rod in compression	Buckling	19%
The sum of kinetic and potential energy of the molecules of a substance	Internal Energy	16%
A program that translates a high-level language into machine code	Compiler	14%
Current hot topic where instead of writing code to perform a task, the code writes code to perform the task	Machine Learning	11%
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%
A process to be followed in calculations	Algorithm	9%
(Claimed) British Inventor of the Jet Engine	Frank Whittle	6%
Famous Scottish rotating boat lift	Falkirk Wheel	5%
Flight regime of most civil aircraft, corresponding to subsonic speeds with areas of supersonic flow around the wings of a plane	Transsonic	5%
Common data compression file type	ZIP file	5%
An electrical insulator	Dielectric	3%
Theorem used to give the maximum guaranteed safe loading on a structure	Lower Bound Theorem	1%
The area of design concerning complex algorithm-following machinery	Robotics	1%
Theorem used to give the minimum guaranteed failure loading on a structure	Upper Bound Theorem	1%

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