Quiz

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Quiz

• Civil Engineering
• Industry and Careers

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Round One

• Industry

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Question 1

• Can you name three major infrastructure
• projects in South Australia?

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Question 2

• In South Australia there are more than 200
• infrastructure projects. How much are these
• worth?
• 20 Million
• 5 billion
• 30 billion

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Question 3

• Which country does this describe?
• Workers are boring through the mountain peaks to
• bring in the first trains. Engineers are
• racing to build the world's tallest building, and
  
• working on the world's largest river diversion
• project, expected to displace 400,000 people, and
  
• building shopping malls that dwarf the Pentagon.

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Question 4

• In 2002-2003 the construction industry in
• Australia accounted for how much of the
• GDP?
• 2
• 3.5
• 6.3
• 11.4

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Round Two

• Employment in the
• Civil Engineering industry

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Question 5

• In 2005 there were 24.6 thousand practising Civil
  Engineers in Australia. How many are there in
  2006?

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Question 6

• Unemployment in Civil Engineering is less
• than the average unemployment for all
• occupational areas (in Australia).
• True or false?

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Question 7

• There are more males practising Civil Engineering
  than females (in Australia)
• True or False?

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Question 8

• Average working hours for the average
• member of the Australian population is 39.7 hours
  per week.
• What is the average for Civil Engineers?
• 37
• 39
• 43.2

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Question 9

• What percentage of Civil Engineering jobs
• are full time, in Australia?
• a. 55
• b. 65
• c. 95

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Question 10

• What are the weekly earnings for the average
  member of the population, in Australia?
• 1424 (74048 per year)
• 913 (47476 per year)
• 843 (43836 per year)

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Question 11

• What are the weekly earnings for a Civil
• Engineer, in Australia?
• 1424 (74048 per year)
• 913 (47476 per year)
• 843 (43836 per year)