Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1039
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1039 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.1038 Next Quiz – No.1040 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
The Three Gorges Dam in China is on the Yellow River – True or False
The Three Gorges Dam is on the Yangtze River
In Electrical Engineering the term EMF stands for Electrical Motive Factor – True or False
EMF stands for ElectroMotive Force
When investigating the transfer of entities such as heat, mass and fluid dynamics, what name is used to define the rate of flow of a property per unit area...
In Roman Numerals, "C" equals what number...
A vehicle or craft, that is a viable means of transport on land and on water is called – Amphibious - True or False
The ratio 22/7 is commonly used to denote the value of the mathematical constant "Pi" which is an "irrational" number - this is an exact ratio of the value of Pi - True or False
An irrational number cannot be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers
An internal combustion engine typically uses a four stroke combustion cycle - this is also called an Otto Cycle
What is the deepest lake in the world...
Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities of components in a boiling liquid mixture - True or False
American inventor Stephen Gary Wozniak is the co founder of which technology company…