The Friday Element Quiz Arbitration Board has formally disqualified Dave
for sending out the Friday Element Quiz on Thursday.  So, by default, Doug
is the winner this week............


Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer
Rockwell Collins

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:07 PM, David Hillman <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> This element is the only metal that reacts with nitrogen at room
> temperature. This element has many commercial uses: as a flux for welding,
> an additive in greases,its in several pharmaceuticals and used in the
> production of vitamin A. Seawater contains a significant concentration of
> this element. What element is being described?
>
>
> The winner of the quiz will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for
> the week.
>
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>
> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> Week 3 John Burke
> Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
> Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> Week 8 Leland Woodall
> Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 13 No Quiz,
> Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 16 John Maxwell
> Week 17 Leland Woodall
> Week 18 Leland Woodall
> Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 20 Robert Kondner
>
> Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> - Up here at ClearMotion, I've got a board to design... but our recruiter
> wants us looking through resumes instead. I think the boys can do that for
> a while, and when they're done with that, they can start cutting out molds
> for my upcoming cedar strip canoe.
>
> Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
> - After feeding them all weekend, I put the boys to work soldering the
> battery leads (Pb-Free, of course) onto ShortSniffer boards.  They were so
> efficient with those little fingers twisting the wire ends, they got the
> next 6-months production done in 4.5 hours!  I gave our minimum wage
> technician a pink slip, telling her to re-apply in September.
>
> They had big smiles on their faces as I put them on a plane to Disney
> World, giving them each 3 all-day passes (after warning them to stay away
> from Snow White).  They should be well rested for the next Element Quiz
> winner.
>
> Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
> - assisted with ????
>
> Week 24 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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