Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1056
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1056 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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A listing of chemical elements arranged according to their properties is called a …
1/2" is equal to how many millimeters...
The Wankel internal combustion engine is based on a series of reciprocating crank shafts - True or False
It use a rotary action
It is possible to drill a square hole - True or False
Using the Reuleaux Triangle
Which planet is often called "The Red Planet"...
The Radian is the SI derived unit for a Plane Angle - True or False
Thinking machines and artificial intelligence appear in Greek mythology - True or False
e.g. the bronze robot of Hephaestus
The capacity of an internal combustion engine is calculated by the volume of the exhaust gasses per stroke - at ambient pressure and temperature - True or False
It is the volume swept by all of the pistons inside the cylinders of the engine
An Autoclicker is a device used to sterilize equipment by subjecting them to high pressure saturated steam - True or False
An Autoclave is used to sterilize equipment by subjecting them to high pressure saturated steam
The number 10 to the power of minus 6 has the unit symbol "micro" - True or False