Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1070
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1070 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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In computer engineering - a register in a CPU in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored is called a Motherboard - True to False
It is called an Accumulator
The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is the world's biggest concrete structure - True or False
It is the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China - 27,200,000 cubic meters of concrete and more than 460,000 metric tons of of steel
In electrical engineering - The term Laser originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation - True or False
A Bendix Drive is a type of mechanism used to capture loop and draw stitches in industrial sewing machines - True or False
It is a type of mechanism used in the starter motors of internal combustion engines
One foot equals 3.05 meters - True or False
It is 0.305 meters
The Farad is the SI derived unit of Power and Radiant Flux - True or False
It is the derived unit of Capacitance
Knurling is a process which produces a rough, patterned surface on smooth, typically round metal components, which need to be gripped by hand – True or False
Ra is the chemical symbol for Radium – True or False
Fillet, Butt, Plug and Bead are all used to specify details of what metal joining process...