Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1020
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1020 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 ?
Previous Quiz – No.1019 Next Quiz – No.1021 For a full list of all quizzes go to – List Of Engineering Quizzes
Looking For A Better Way
Looking For A Better Way
- Go to – Engineering the 3R Way for an overview of the 3R Philosophy and link to the full list of topics
Then Take A Break
- With the List Of Pages – Engineering Nostalgia for pages of Old Engineer Memories from Engineering practice in the 1960’s/70’s/80’s – with a bit of armed forces and medieval trivia thrown in
- Or check out Engineering Odd Bits for odd subject matter – including humor and comment
In statistics , what name is given to a graphical representation showing a visual impression of the distribution of data. It is an estimate of the probability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by Karl Pearson...
Rarefaction is the reduction in an items density, the opposite of compression - True or False
In correspondence and documentation we often use the abbreviation – cc when sending copies to other people. - cc stands for circulated copy – True or False
cc stands for carbon copy (the next question is “What is a carbon copy ? - but we will leave that for another day)
The volume of a cone = 2/3 πr²h – True or False
The volume of a cone = 1/3πr²h
An Extinction Meter is an early name for what...
What name is given to the curve that a hanging chain or cable assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends...
What name is given to an optical device with perfect or approximate axial symmetry which transmits and refracts light , converging or diverging the beam...
Which people are generally recognised as being the first to invent Paper Making...
What is the sum of the internal angles of a triangle...
The generic name for a short, hard metal rod with a flat or pointed end, which is typically struck with a hammer and used to drive nails or pins into or out of workpieces or to form an indent on a workpiece is called a…