Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1079
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1079 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
Looking For A Better Way
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- Or check out Engineering Odd Bits for odd subject matter – including humor and comment
Litmus turns Blue when dipped into acid - True or False
Litmus turns Pink when dipped into acid
Newton's second law of motion states that : f = ma (force = mass x acceleration ) - True or False
Leonardo da Vinci invented the Hygrometer to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco - True or False
Dr Scholl held over 300 patents for Hearing Improvement - True or False
Dr Scholl held over 300 patents for Foot Improvements
What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios...
Galileo invented the thermometer - True or False
James Spengler invented what consumer product...
The General Electric Company was founded by Albert Einstein - True or False
The General Electric Company was founded by Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson is famous for commissioning bifocal glasses - True or False
Benjamin Franklin commissioned bifocal glasses
In computer engineering - a small, but fast memory that transparently improves the performance of a larger, but slower memory or storage device is called - Cache - True or False