Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1100

The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1100 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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Looking For A Better Way

Looking For A Better Way

 

Looking For A Better Way

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What name is given to a type of hammer with a head often made of wood, hard rubber or hard plastic...

In Mechanical Engineering - the most common type of plain bearing which is typically a shaft rotating in a bearing surface is called a Journal Bearing – True or False

Antimony is the chemical element with the symbol Sb - True or False

What name is given to adhesive wear and transfer of material between metallic surfaces during sheet metal forming and other industrial operations where relative motion is involved…

Although overshadowed by the VHS system – which company released the technically superior Betamax home videocassette tape recording format in 1975...

The first artificial satellite launched into space was Explore 1 – launched by the United States in February 1958 – True or False

The first artificial Satellite was Sputnik 1 - launched by the Soviet Union in 1957  

What name describes the location of objects which share the same centre, axis or origin. One of the most familiar examples is the evenly spaced circles of a target…

In Chemical Engineering, a Colloid is the name given to a substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance – True or False

What does a Nephelometer measure…

A Galvanic Cell is more commonly known as a Sacrificial Anode – True or False

A galvanic Cell is more commonly known as an Electrical Battery