Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1120
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1120 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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A Bimetallic Thermometer comprises of 2 strips of similar metals soldered together - True or False
The correct answer is 2 strips of “dissimilar” metals
What is the unit of measure widely used in chemistry, instead of units of mass or volume, as a convenient way to express the amounts of reactants and products of chemical reactions...
In SI base units - 1 Newton = 1000 kg-m/s2 - True or False
1N=1kg-m/s2
Zurich is the capital city of Switzerland – True or False
Berne is the capital city of Switzerland
Embryology is the science which studies the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time - True or False
Embryology is about the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage - Etymology is the study of words
The term Membrane is commonly used to describe a thin, film-like structure that separates two fluids - True or False
What name is given to an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component...
In Chemical Engineering terms, a Fume Cupboard is a device designed to coagulate vapours - True or False
A Fume Cupboard it is designed to remove hazardous fumes
A Brace and Bit is a hand tool used to drill holes, usually in wood - True or False
Faraday's law of Induction is a basic law of Mechanical Strain Energy - True or False
it is a basic law of Electromagnetism