Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1119
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1119 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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19/32” (nineteen thirty seconds of an inch) = how many millimeters…
In Engineering, what name is given to the twisting of an object due to an applied rotary force perpendicular to the axis...
Mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point are generally referred to as what…
A Carburetor is the name given to the device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine – True or False
The highest hardness of a hardened steel having a martensitic microstructure is obtained when its carbon content is Low – True or False
The correct answer is High - around 0.8 weight% C
Elias Howe, Whitcomb Judson, Colonel Lewis Walker and Gideon Sundback are people who (at various times) worked on which well known invention for temporarily joining 2 edges of fabric…
Muscat is the name given to a smooth bore long gun fired from the shoulder – True or False
A Musket is a gun fired from the shoulder – Muscat is the capital city of Oman – Liqueur Muscat is a fortified wine
Biomass is the name is given to a renewable energy source which uses living, or recently living organisms such as plant matter, wood, waste, (hydrogen) gas, alcohol fuels etc to generate electricity or heat – True or False
Pteromechanophobia is also known as aerophobia, aviatophobia and aviophobia and is a fear of what…
What is the name of the stone used to grind and hone the edges of knives and steel tools...