Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1130

The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1130 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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Looking For A Better Way

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Flammable Materials have High flash points and will only burn at temperatures above 37.8 deg – True or False

Flammable Materials have Low flash points and will burn at temperatures below 37.8 deg C

The "Bantam BRC" is better known by what name…

The German blue chip stock market index - Deutscher Aktienindex is more commonly known as the DAX – True or False

A semi-liquid mixture is called...

What colour does litmus turn when dipped into acid…

The polarity of an Anode is always positive - True or False

in a device which consumes power the anode is positive, and in a device which provides power the anode is negative

Degaussing was commonly used in CRT based TV sets and computer monitors to decrease or eliminate unwanted magnetic field – True or False

Derived from the Latin for "to glow white" , what name is given to the emission of light from a hot body due to its temperature…

Chainmail is the name given to a type of Armour  consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh – True or False

Barrel, Bushel, Cauldron, Cord, Gill are all measures of what...