Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1072
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1072 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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The Lumen is the SI derived unit of Inductance - True or False
the Lumen is the SI derived unit of Luminous Flux
1 inch equals 2.54 millimeters - True or false
1 inch = 25.4 millimeters
A Taser is an electroshock weapon which uses electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing "neuromuscular incapacitation" - True or False
The "Birds Nest " stadium was built for the 2008 summer Olympic games and is located in Shanghai - True or False
It is located in Beijing
In computer engineering - a hardware device or software to protect a computer from viruses, malware, trojans is called an Expansion Card - True or False
It is called a Firewall
Calico is a textile made from rough unbleached cotton – True or False
Atmospheric Pressure is the pressure at sea level and is typically 14.7 psi - True or False
Oscillation is the result of excess heat being applied to a crystalline structure - True or False
Oscillation is the repetitive variation, about a central value which may be typically a point of equilibrium
The chemical element with the symbol Na is Nitrogen - True or False
The symbol Na is for Sodium
Hot-dip galvanization is the process of coating a metal with a thin zinc layer in order to prevent corrosion - True or False