Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1026

The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1026 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

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A natural light display in the sky, in the high latitude Arctic and Antarctic regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere is called an…

Genealogy is the science comprising the study of solid Earth , the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves  - True or False

Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history - Geology is the study of solid earth

The word "Permeable" describes a material through which substances, such as liquids or gases, cannot pass - True or False

Permeable allow passage - Impermeable prevents passage

Pliers which can be locked into position, using an over toggle lever are also known as...

Steel that has been heated above its upper critical temperature and then cooled in standing air is called Normalized-Steel. - True or False

A Thermopile is an electronic device that converts thermal energy  into electrical energy . - True or False

Freezing point on the Fahrenheit temperature scale = 23 degrees - True or False

A Howitzer is a type of artillery characterized by a…

Bar, Pascal,  Pieze,  Torr are all measures of what...

3/4" equals how many millimetres …