Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1127
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1127 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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What is the generic name for a mechanical screw activated tool which is used to hold or clamp a workpiece…
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines - True or False
A gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion is also called an Italian Cross - True or False
The correct answer is a Maltese Cross
What is the dominant language of Argentina
Ceramic knives are not seen by conventional metal detectors - True or False
A substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance is called...
The Toshka project was conceived as a system of canals to feed water to the Sahara desert for irrigation. What country initiated this project...
7/32” (inch) as a fraction = 0.21875” as a decimal – True or False (without a calculator please)
Turbulence is the name given to the irregular motion of fluids – True or False
An Anode is the name given to an electrode through which electric current flows out of a polarized electrical device – True or False
the correct answer is a Cathode