Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1115
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1115 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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An Electron is a subatomic particle carrying a negative electric charge which has no known components or substructure, and is believed to be an elementary particle, it has a mass that is approximately 1/1836 that of a proton – True or False
In Electrical Engineering a Tong Test measures induced heat in a closed circuit – True or False
A Tong Test measures Electrical Current in a circuit (measured in amperes)
A machine tool which rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis is called a Milling Machine – True or False
This type of machine tool is called a Lathe – A milling Machine is typically either vertical or horizontal and moves the workpiece radially against the rotating cutter
SAIC Motor Corp is the largest automaker in which country…
SAIC stands for - Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation
Stanford University in Standford, California was founded by Leland Stanford, a wealthy businessman. What industry did he make his fortune from...
Cadillac was the first American car to win the prestigious Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club of England in 1908 – True or False
What word is used to describe the process of pressing metals (or other solids) through a die…
In Chemical Engineering, The Saturation Temperature is more commonly called the what …
The locus of a point that moves on the surface of a cylinder so that the ratio between its angular motion around the cylinder and its linear motion along the cylinder is constant is called the Helix – True or False
Dendrophobia is a fear of what…