Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1128
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1128 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 name is given to the path a moving object follows through space as a function of time…
Although largely superseded today - VHS was a consumer-level video standard developed by Japanese company JVC and launched in 1976. VHS stands for -Video High Standard – True or False
VHS stands for - Video Home System
Often used in a generic context to describe ancillary items related to a greater central object, what name is given to equipment which has been put into space orbit by human endeavour...
A Wind Tunnel is a research tool used in aerodynamic research, to study the effects of air moving past solid objects – True or False
What name is given to a rotor which is located inside of a tube or housing and is used to increase the pressure and flow of a liquid...
Pumps located in a pit or similar and designed to pump liquids or slurries are called Stump Pumps – True or False
They are called Sump Pumps
1/16" (one sixteenth of an inch) = how many millimetres …
Which ancient city was said to be built on seven hills...
The Bessemer Process which was first used for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron and was named after the inventor - Henry Bessemer - True or False
In the SI system of units - the Farad (F) is a measure of Illuminance - True or False
it is a measure of electric Capacitance