Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1025
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1025 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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What name is given to a brushless DC electric motor that can divide a full rotation into a large number of steps. The motor's position can be controlled precisely without any feedback mechanism...
Cobol is the name of the general-purpose, procedural , imperative programming language developed by IBM in the 1950's which is derived from "The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System" – True or False
The correct answer is Fortran
1/4" equals how many millimetres….
"Moment of Force" is derived from Force divided by Area - True or False
Moment of Force = Force x Distance
Poise is a measure of...
A payload carrying projectile is also known as a ….
What name is given to a process of heat treatment used to increase the toughness of iron -based alloys…
The Mariana Trench is the deepest underground mine in the world - True or False
The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans
In 1833, Sir Charles Wheatstone improved and popularised a measuring device for what property...
An analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove is also called…