Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1110
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1110 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 current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points - is the definition of which fundamental Law of Electricity...
The Angle of Incidence may be defined as – The Angle between a normal and incident ray True or False
Pillow Block/Plummer Block is the name for a mounted plain or roller bearing used to provide support for a rotating shaft with the mounting surface on a parallel line with the axis of the shaft – True or False
Alcohols are often used as the fluid in Spirit Levels - True or False
What is the name of the hand tool used by woodworkers for smoothing or carving rough-cut wood. Typically, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the tool downwards towards the feet, chipping off pieces of wood, moving backwards and leaving a relatively smooth surface behind...
The word electricity was derived from the Greek word Elektron which is a color. What color ? ...
What name name is given to a diagram with rectangular graphics which has lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The graphics can be plotted vertically or horizontally…
Produced by Du Pont, Rayon is the trade name for Polyamide – True or False
Nylon is the trade name for Polyamide
In Engineering, what name is given to a sheet of a semi-flexible material which is fixed at its periphery and usually circular. Typically it is used as a flexible barrier between two chambers…
What name is given to a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, that is suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line…