Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1030
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.14030 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
Challenge your colleagues – can they answer more than you ?
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A tank for storing water, especially one supplying taps or as part of a flushing toilet is called a …..
The Mobius Band is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component . - True or False
What is the currency of Argentina…
V Belt drives where invented in 1917 by...
The word Hermetic, used to describe an airtight seal was created by the Heinz food company who first developed air tight sealed food packaging - True or False
The word hermetic comes from the name of the Greek God Hermes
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines - True or False
What name is given to a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion
In electrical engineering - EMF stands for Electron Movement Factor – True or False
EMF stands for ElectroMotive Force
EMF stands for ElectroMotive Force
Charles Babbage invented the Analytical Engine in 1837 and this is generally regarded as the first computer concept
60 degrees Fahrenheit equals approximately 16 degrees Centigrade - True or False