Question: What Boy Scout merit badge did Spielberg help develop?
Answer: cinematography

Question: Which Spielberg movie showed its main character was a Boy Scout?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Question: What was Indy's rank in Boy Scouts when shown in a movie?
Answer: Life Scout

Question: Which major Spielberg movie character was a Boy Scout?
Answer: Indiana Jones

Question: When was Spielberg's merit badge launched?
Answer: 1989

Question: What award did Spielberg receive on Jul 15, 2006?
Answer: Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award

Question: Who made Spielberg a knight?
Answer: Jacques Chirac

Question: Where was Spielberg honored on Dec 3, 2006?
Answer: Kennedy Center

Question: Who narrated a short Spielberg bio at the Kennedy Center?
Answer: Tom Hanks

Question: When was Spielberg added to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame?
Answer: 2005

Question: When did the Visual Effects Society give Spielberg a Lifetime Achievement Award?
Answer: February 2009

Question: When did Spielberg win the Cecil B. DeMille Award?
Answer: 2009

Question: Why was Spielberg's Cecil B. DeMille Award postponed from 2008?
Answer: watered-down format of the ceremony resulting from conflicts in the 2007–08 writers strike

Question: For which industry were elevators first used?
Answer: coal mines

Question: In the mid 1800s what were elevators fueled by?
Answer: steam power

Question: What were elevators originally built for?
Answer: moving goods in bulk in mines and factories

Question: Who built the "ascending room", in 1823?
Answer: Burton and Hormer

Question: The "ascending room" gave customers a view of what city's downtown?
Answer: London

Question: Who invented the hydraulic crane in 1846?
Answer: Sir William Armstrong

Question: Were was the hydraulic crane initially used?
Answer: Tyneside docks

Question: In what manner did hydraulic cranes employ Pascal's law? 
Answer: they provided a much greater force

Question: The water pump supplied water pressure to a plunger located where?
Answer: encased inside a vertical cylinder

Question: besides water pressure, what else was used to increase the lifting power?
Answer: Counterweights and balances

Question: What Neapolitan architect created the "Flying Chair" elevator?
Answer: Gaetano Genovese

Question: At what location was the "Flying Chair" installed in 1845?
Answer: Royal Palace of Caserta

Question: What type of wood was used on the inside ?
Answer: maple

Question: What controlled the traction?
Answer: a motor mechanic utilizing a system of toothed wheels

Question: What did the safety system consist of?
Answer: a beam pushed outwards by a steel spring

Question: Who created the safety elevator in 1852?
Answer: Elisha Otis

Question: What feature did the safety elevator display? 
Answer: prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke

Question: What did the govenor device engage to lock the elevator?
Answer: knurled roller(s)

Question: At what location was it first presented?
Answer: New York exposition in the Crystal Palace

Question: Where was the first safety elevator installed?
Answer: 488 Broadway in New York City

Question: Which was built first, the first elevator shaft or the first elevator?
Answer: first elevator shaft

Question: What year did constructrion begin for the Cooper Union Foundation?
Answer: 1853

Question: What design did Peter Cooper feel was the most efficient?
Answer: cylindrical

Question: The Otis Elevator Company is today a subsidiary of what major corporation?
Answer: United Technologies Corporation

Question: What title does United Technologies Corporation hold?
Answer: world's largest manufacturer of vertical transport systems

Question: Who built the first electric elevator?
Answer: Werner von Siemens

Question: The first electric elevator, built in 1880, was in what Country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Who is credited with increasing the safety and speed of electric elevators?
Answer: Frank Sprague

Question: Who ultilized von Siemens ideas to build a succesful business?
Answer: Anton Freissler

Question: To whom did Frank Sprague sell his company to in 1895?
Answer: Otis Elevator Company

Question: What is another name for an elevator shaft?
Answer: hoistway

Question: Elevator drive mechanisms have, in the past been, powered by what?
Answer: steam and water hydraulic pistons or by hand

Question: What is the weight of the elevator cage balanced by? 
Answer: a counterweight

Question: How do elevators built in pairs work?
Answer: their cars always move synchronously in opposite directions,

Question: How do most elevator doors work?
Answer: have two panels that meet in the middle, and slide open laterally

Question: What is a single panel door referred to as?
Answer: "slab" door

Question: What design allows wider entryways within limited space?
Answer: a cascading telescopic configuration

Question: The single door is sometimes located where?
Answer: on the shaft way

Question: What do elevator doors protect riders from?
Answer: falling into the shaft

Question: Throughout history, what type of engines were used for elevator machines?
Answer: AC motors

Question: Why were AC motors used?
Answer: cost and lower usage applications where car speed and passenger comfort were less of an issue

Question: What problem arises for fast and large capacity elevators?
Answer: the need for infinitely variable speed control over the traction machine

Question: Generally, what powered the relay contoller?
Answer: MG set

Question: What is a known advantage of the MG set?
Answer: electrically isolating the elevators from the rest of a building's electrical system

Question: In a gearless traction engine, what is the drive sheave attached to?
Answer: directly attached to the end of the motor

Question: What speed is a gearless traction elevator capable of attaining?
Answer: 20 m/s (4,000 ft/min)

Question: What motivates an external drum brake held open electrically?
Answer: spring force

Question: One exception that is not high speed high rise and large capacity is what?
Answer: Kone MonoSpace's EcoDisc

Question: What reduces the amount of force needed to propel the cab?
Answer: cables are attached to a hitch plate on top of the cab

Question: Where will the counterweight be found?
Answer: in the hoist-way

Question: What guides the traction machine?
Answer: the controller

Question: The counterweight runs equal to the cab weight plus what percentage of the elevator capacity?
Answer: 40-50%

Question: Maintaining that the ropes all have equal tension may reduce what?
Answer: Sheave and rope wear

Question: "Compensation" is the name of the system used for what type of elevators?
Answer: Elevators with more than 30 m (98 ft) of travel

Question: "Compensation" consists of what?
Answer: a separate set of cables or a chain attached to the bottom of the counterweight and the bottom of the elevator cab

Question: What is the chain guided by in a compensation system that uses chains?
Answer: a bar mounted between the counterweight railway lines

Question: What exactly does this system compensate for?
Answer: the differing weight of cable between the hoist and the cab

Question: What type of installations are hydraulic elevators best suited for?
Answer: low rise, low traffic installations

Question: Why do hydraulic elevators use more energy?
Answer: the pump works against gravity to push the car and its passengers upwards; this energy is lost when the car descends on its own weight

Question: What else contributes to a higher demand from the electrical system?
Answer: The high current draw of the pump when starting up

Question: What concerns arise when the lifting cylinder leaks fluid into the ground?
Answer: environmental concerns

Question: What defines a climbing elevator?
Answer: a self-ascending elevator with its own propulsion

Question: What settings are climbing elevators used in?
Answer: guyed masts or towers