The Coffee Break Trivia Trivia Quiz – No.1050 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 !
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7/64 " (inch) equals how many millimetres (without a calculator please)…
The CN Tower was the world's tallest freestanding structure on land. In which city is it located….
In 1907, using a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape, James Spengler invented the portable vacuum cleaner – True or False
In Electrical Engineering what is the general purpose instrument which measures voltage, current and resistance etc...
In Mechanical Engineering - Ball, Roller, Needle, Taper are all types of what...
Gamma ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation - True or False
In the SI system of units - the Farad (F) is a measure of Illuminance - True or False
It is a measure of electric capacitance
What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet...
Sputnik 1 was the worlds first artificial satellite and it was launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957 - True or False
In hydraulic engineering - British Standard Pipe (BSP) threads and National Pipe (NP) threads are totally interchangeable - True or False
BSP thread form is 55 deg verses NPT at 60 deg - plus most sizes have different threads per inch values
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1049 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 !
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In Electrical Engineering what instrument measures the resistance of a component...
In Mechanical Engineering - Stiffness may be described as the tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis - True or False
It is the rigidity of an object relative to an applied force
Gamma rays are ionizing radiation and are not biologically hazardous - True or False
Gamma rays are biologically hazardous
In the SI system of units - the Steradian (sr) is a measure of Solid Angle - True or False
In Engineering - Plug Taps, Second Taps and Taper Taps are used in hydraulic flow calculations - True or False
They are used for screw thread cutting
In the NATO phonetic alphabet - The letter W is - W for Water - True or False
W is for Whiskey
In the SI system of units - kilogram is the unit of mass - True or False
3/64 " equals how many millimeters (without a calculator please)…
Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches on a building are called ….
Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers - True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1048 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 !
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In Electrical Engineering - what instrument measures both the amplitude and the modulation of a RF signal...
In Civil Engineering - A concrete support wall or arch which is constructed at both ends of a bridge in order to resist horizontal forces is called an "Apron " - True or False
It is an Abutment
In Mechanical Engineering, what name is given to the maximum frictional force that can be produced between surfaces without slipping…
1 mile equals how many meters...
In Mechanical Engineering - to Bevel is the process of creating a chamfer - True or False
The London Eye is a…
Rz, Ra, Ry, Sm, are all definitions and indications of which property…
Yarn Bombing is a type of street art that uses colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk - True or False
A Railgun is an electrically powered electromagnetic projectile launcher - True or False
Tetraborate Decahydrate (Na2B4O7.10 H2O) is also known as Borax – True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1047 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 !
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In Electrical Engineering what instrument measures power…
In Civil Engineering - A chemical which is added to a plain concrete mix in order to speed up the setting time is called an Accelerator
"Acid rain" is a broad term referring to a mixture of wet and dry deposition from the atmosphere containing higher than normal amounts of alkalis - True or False
It refers to higher than normal amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids
In Mechanical Engineering, a system of forces with a resultant moment but no resultant force is called a …
A vector may be described as a quantity, defined by both magnitude and direction - True or False
A gas Pycnometer is a device for measuring heat generated by a flame – True or False
It is a laboratory device used for measuring the density of solids
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying - True or False
The chemical element with the symbol K is Cobalt – True or False
Potassium has the chemical symbol K - Cobalt has the chemical symbol Co
Wave power may be defined as the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and thus the capture of that energy to do useful work - True or False
Calcium Oxide (CaO ) is also known as ...
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1046 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 !
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A Transducer is a device that converts one form of energy to another - True or False
Parsecs are used in astronomy to measure enormous interstellar distances - True or False
In Civil Engineering - A "Bailey Bridge" is a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or similar - True or False
It is a temporary bridge formed of prefabricated, interchangeable, steel truss panels bolted
The Beaufort scale is a measure of the rise and fall of tides - True or False
It is a measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land
Oscilloscopes test and display voltage signals as waveforms and show visual representations of the variation of voltage over time - True or False
What name is given to a heat engine that performs mechanical work using pressurised water vapour as its working fluid...
The generic name for a variable-ratio transmission system commonly used on bicycles , consisting of a chain , multiple sprockets of different sizes, and a mechanism to move the chain from one sprocket to another is called a Planetary Gear System – True or False
It is called Derailleur Gears
What name is given to a tool which measures opposite sides of an object, variants of this tool can measure"inside" or "outside"…
What name is given to a device fitted internally in pipes which uses Bernoulli's principle for measuring volumetric flow rate using the same principle as a Venturi Nozzle…
Distillation is the name is given to a method of separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities of components in a boiling liquid mixture – True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1045 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 !
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In Electrical Engineering, what is the instrument which displays the phase of the colors in a color TV...
Acoustics is the science of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration , sound , ultrasound and infrasound - True or False
The Charpy Impact Test which is used for testing the strength of materials is an an acronym for Compression Hardness And Rate Pre Yield - True or False
It was developed in 1905 by French scientist Georges Charpy
Mainly used for surveying applications, what name is given to a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes...
A "Reticle" is a motorised 2 person boat - True or False
It is a net of fine lines in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope
A decorative structure which protrudes from a building and acts as a bracket or support structure is called a …..
In Civil Engineering - an "Abyssinian Well" is any device for securing a suspension or cantilever bridge at either end - True or False
It is a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water
The knot is a unit of speed equal to one kilometre per hour - True or False
It is equal to one nautical mile per hour
What name is given to an optical device consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an eyepiece at one end and an objective lens at the other end. Typically they are linked together by a relay optical system ...
Sloop, Cutter, Ketch and Schooner are all types of...
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1044 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 !
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American inventor Stephen Gary Wozniak is the co founder of which technology company…
The ratio of the length of the circumference to the length of the diameter is constant for all circles - True or False
A radio telescope is a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy - True or False
In Civil Engineering - A "Bolster" is a structural member on which one end of a bridge truss rests - True or False
Metric and Imperial units are never mixed - True or False
e.g A hybrid standard quantity used in mining is the assay ton
What name is given to an appliance designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes…
A Drafting Machine is a device which is mounted to a drawing board and has a fan which was used to dry the inks used in technical drawing - True or False
It is a device which is mounted to the drawing board and is a mechanism which allow straight lines to be drawn
Silicon Dioxide ( SiO2 ) is also known as ...
In Electrical Engineering what instrument displays the waveform of a signal…
Latent Heat is the name of the heat released or absorbed by a chemical substance or a thermodynamic system during a process that occurs without a change in temperature – True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1043 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 !
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Gaussian Elimination is a chemical process used in distillation - True or False
It is an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations
A Borescope is used for non destructive testing of metals - True or False
It is used for visual inspection
In mathematics and computer science, truncation is the term for limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones. - True or False
What name is given to a machine or mechanism used to reduce the volume of a material through a squeezing process…
The Charpy v-notch test, is used to determine the amount of energy absorbed by a material during fracture - True or False
Nuclear fission is the disintegration of a susceptible atom's nucleus into two different, smaller elements and other particles including neutrons - True or False
A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers to depth in the ocean - True or False
The term BIM is widely used within the building and construction industry - BIM stands for Building Information Modelling - True or False
In the International System of Units - what name is given to a derived unit of energy, work, or an amount of heat…
In Civil Engineering - An "Abyssinian Well" is any device for securing a suspension or cantilever bridge at either end - True or False
It is a perforated pipe driven into the ground
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