Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1113
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1113 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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If I am drilling with a Brad Point drill bit – What material am I most likely to be drilling…
3/64” (three sixty fourths of an inch) = 1.190625 mm – True or False
The Karnaugh map (KM or K-map) is a method of simplifying Boolean algebra expressions – True or False
Logarithms where first introduced in the 17th century by who...
Vertigo is the common name for a green pigment formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time. - True or False
Verdigris is the correct name for this condition
A Transformer is a device that facilitates a chemical reaction from the solid to gaseous state - True or False
it is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors
Reaumer is a thermodynamic temperature scale named by the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine - True or False
Rankine - is the name of the temperature scale
Several Thermocouples connected (usually) in series which convert thermal energy into electrical energy are called a Thermodrive - True or False
the correct name for the device is - Thermopile
The characteristic of a fluid in which the viscosity is a function of a mechanical variable such as shear stress or time is called what...
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, known unofficially as the Big Dig was a civil engineering project in which US city...