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This is Hardcore

Created by Rowena8482

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This is Hardcore game quiz
"Lots of things are termed "Hardcore" nowadays, but thiz quiz has the genuine article! And a few other things besides, all of which go into the building of our roads and highways. How much do you know about the humble pavement under your feet?"

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1. As the title of this quiz states, "This is Hardcore". In roadbuilding terms, what *is* hardcore?
    Concrete or cement reinforced with small pieces of metal, often waste or trimmings from foundries
    Milled pieces of graded stone, no larger than 25mm in diameter
    Poorly graded stone, often waste or contaminated with other things
    Residue from landfill or subsidence that must be cleared before roadbuilding can begin


2. To determine the strength of the underlying layers of a road, a test known as CBR is used. What does CBR stand for?
    Construction Build Rating
    Condensed Building Regulations
    California Bearing Ratio
    Clinton-Bering Reading


3. Something called 'planings' are sometimes used during the construction of a new road. They can be in with the asphalt top layer, or lower down as part of the sub-base layer. What are these planings?
    Milled bits of the previous road surface
    Thermoset plastic shavings
    Wood chips and shavings
    Glass pellets up to 7mm in diameter


4. Various regulations governing road construction around the world set out size limits for different aggregate particles and materials. Often, these use microns; what is a micron?
    One thousandth of a millimetre
    One hundred thousandth of a millimetre
    One thousandth of a metre
    One hundred millionth of a metre


5. Macadam is a name often associated with roadbuilding, as the inventor of Tarmacadam, often shortened to Tarmac. Do you know Mr. Macadam's forenames?
    Stewart Temple
    Graeme Hastings
    David Keen
    John Loudon


6. Until the mid 1990s, the most widely used road surfacing material in the UK was 'hot rolled asphalt'. Using this meant that a layer of something else had to be added to the top of the road surface before it could be used. What was this addition?
    Red dye
    Sockets for catseyes
    Stone chippings
    Hard glaze


7. To a roadbuilder, what does the acronym SMA stand for?
    Stone Mastic Asphalt
    Stone Made Aggregate
    Standard Mix Asphalt
    Single Marble-type Aggregate


8. One of the world's premier producers of asphalt products for roadbuilding is TLA, short for T____ Lake Asphalt. Which place does the T stand for?
    Turkey
    Tashkent
    Timbuktu
    Trinidad


9. Many people will have heard the phrase "All roads lead to Rome", but where exactly in Rome was the 'Millarium Aureum' or Golden Milestone, that was considered the beginning of every roman road?
    At the crest of the Palatine Hill
    Outside the main entrance of the Colosseum
    In the Forum, near the Temple of Saturn
    On the southern bank where the Aniene joins the Tiber


10. Who was the Roman military engineer and architect whose book "De Architectura" survives to this day, and laid out the specifics for building a Roman road?
    Balbus
    Scipio
    Vitruvius
    Livy


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Compiled Jun 28 12