Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1118
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1118 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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Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to extract a base metal – True or False
1/64” (one sixty fourth of an inch) = 0.396875 mm – True or False
Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law states that: In any closed loop network, the total voltage around the loop is equal to the sum of all the voltage drops within the same loop, which is also equal to zero. In other words, the algebraic sum of all voltages within the loop must be equal to zero – True or False
The transfer of energy in a liquid or gas due to different temperatures causing circulation within the fluid is called Convection – True or False
Carbon ( C ) is also known as …
An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure is called a...
Historically, Wind Electric Generators have been attached to Asynchronous loads - True or False
In Structural Engineering - A measure of the resistance to rotation offered by a member’s geometry and size is called the Live Load - True or False
the resistance to rotation offered by a member’s geometry and size is called the Moment of Inertia
CIP is widely used in Process Engineering. CIP stands for Closed Inspection Process - True or False
CIP stands for Clean In Place
HDMI is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting data - HDMI stands for Higher Data Media Interchange - True or False
HDMI stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface