Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1132
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1132 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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Derived from Old French, what name is given to a cylindrical protrusion used as a mounting and/or pivoting point...
If something is Inflammable it will easily burn or ignite – True or False
If something is Inflammable it will NOT easily burn or ignite
Hipparcos was the name of the satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 which was the first space experiment devoted to precision astronomy – True or False
True - The word "Hipparcos" is an acronym for High precision parallax collecting satellite
A pair of identical or mirror-symmetrical telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes when viewing distant objects is also called...
In electronics a switch may be abbreviated to "DPST" – DPST stands for - Double Pole, Single Throw – True or False
An Orifice Plate is a device fitted internally in pipes, to measure flow rates or reduce pressure or restrict flow – True or False
In the Roman army a Ballista was a what…
Sc is the chemical symbol for Silicon – True or False
Si is the correct answer
The cubed root of 64 = 8 True or False (without a calculator please)
The cubed root of 64 = 4
A Calorimeter is an instrument for measuring absorbed or evolved heat - True or False
EDIT: Ooops we made an error on question 2! Thanks to Matthew M for picking it up!