Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1124
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1124 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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Joseph Whitworth devised the first standard screw thread in 1841 – True or False
Austrian Engineer - Paul Eisler - invented what in 1936...
What metal was discovered in Cornwall, United Kingdom, by William Gregor in 1791 and named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth for the Titans of Greek mythology…
Sony Corporation was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka and partly derived it's name from sonus , the Latin word for sound – True or False
In Electrical Engineering - The Wetting (or Sealing) Current is the minimum current needing to flow through a newly-closed mechanical switch or relay, in order to break through any film that may have been deposited on the switch contacts while open – True or False
What is the name of the motorcycle manufacturer located in Bologna, Italy which was founded by brothers Adriano, Marcello and Bruno in 1926. It is best known for high performance motorcycles running large capacity four-stroke engines featuring a desmodromic valve design…
In Fluid Mechanics, the dimensionless number which gives a measure of the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and thus defines the relative importance of these two types of forces for given flow conditions is called the Rayban Number– True or False
it is the Reynolds Number
Karoshi is a Japanese word which means…
Fillet, Butt, Plug, Bead - are all used to specify details of what metal joining process…