<p> Quiz for our young geniuses LCPC's Open House Days, September 26-27, 2009</p><p>1) This year, LCPC is celebrating an anniversary. How many years ago was it created? □ 600 million years (LCPC was already operating even before dinosaurs roamed the planet!). □ 600 years (in the midst of the Hundred Years' War between France and England: LCPC in fact was built to make the English jealous). ■ 60 years (the Laboratory was born the same year as Bruce Springsteen, Pedro Almodovar, Meryl Streep, Maxime Le Forestier, Véronique Samson, Dan Ar Braz and Julien Lepers).</p><p>2) You no doubt noticed a barrier and checkpoint when entering the site. Why do you think they've been set up? □ The LCPC complex contains some wild animals. The barrier prevents them from escaping! ■ LCPC is a research laboratory, housing some very expensive equipment: we wouldn't want anyone to steal it! Besides, we need protection from spies, you never know! □ LCPC's blackberries are of a super rare variety. To protect them, the entire sector has been walled off and the entrance placed under surveillance.</p><p>3) What do you see happening in this photograph?</p><p>■ A test is being conducted on the strength of sheet metal (how much weight can it support, how it deforms, etc.). □ A coffee delivery robot is being built. □ Absolutely nothing: it's a modern work of art.</p><p>4) The Bouguer Building contains a "centrifuge". What exactly is that? □ A giant salad spinner, for days when LCPC staff organise a big picnic for everyone. □ It's one of the merry-go-rounds at the LCPC amusement park, to allow park employees to enjoy a ride between two scientific experiments (the device can hit 100 G!). ■ It's an instrument used to replicate the Earth's gravitational pull, in order to study structural resistance to earthquakes, for example.</p><p>5) What could an RUP be? ■ A Removable Urban Pavement Hint: Look at the □ A Really Unbelievable Pumpkin photo! □ A Recliner Used on the Patio 6) What does the term "anechoic" mean? ■ A room is said to be "anechoic" when there's no echo inside. □ It's a tool shaped like an ant. □ Someone "anechoic" has a nose misshapen due to a shock.</p><p>7) What do you see on this photo?</p><p>□ A huge spider □ The pendant of a guru in a Raelian cloning cult ■ The pavement fatigue carrousel</p><p>8) What is a "reference track"? □ A dance floor reserved exclusively for the company's best dancers. ■ A test track used, for example, to evaluate the attributes of a road (to determine if it's slippery or noisy when driving on it, etc.). □ A term used when hunting season is ready to open (today or tomorrow): the dogs must be trained to follow the prey's tracks! For this reason, the field used is called a "reference track".</p><p>9) What is this contraption used for? It's: □ A "smoothie" maker (for mixing fruit juices) ■ A filtration instrument to identify micropollutants in water (especially pollutants in road runoff) □ A peanut distributor</p><p>10) What could an "asphalt overlay" or "asphalt mix" be? □ A cooking technique used in the confection industry to sugar-coat candies, like for almonds. □ The name of a famous classical dance step: the dancer twirls around his or her partner, tracing a circle, also known as an "overlay". ■ A mix of gravel, sand and bitumen applied in one or more layers, to compose a road pavement.</p><p>Congratulations! You've finished the quiz… </p>