LCPC's Open House Days, September 26-27, 2009 /
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 Franceand 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).
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 beenwalled off and the entrance placed under surveillance.
3) What do you see happening in this photograph?
/ □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.
4)The BouguerBuilding contains a "centrifuge". What exactly is that?
□A giant salad spinner, for days when LCPC staff organisea 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'san instrument used to replicate the Earth's gravitational pull, in order to study structural resistance to earthquakes, for example.
5)What could an RUP be?
□A Removable Urban Pavement□ A Really Unbelievable Pumpkin
□ A Recliner Used on the Patio / / Hint: Look at the photo!
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.
7)What do you see on this photo?
/ □A huge spider□The pendant of a guru in a Raelian cloning cult
□The pavement fatigue carrousel
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".
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
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.
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