Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1133

The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1133 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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The first man made space satellite, Sputnik was launched in which year...

The square root of one (1) is one (1) – True or False

Which metal has the highest strength to weight ratio…

Although there are exceptions – In general - Inert substances will not react with other substances – True or False

A Secchi Disk measures the density of Colours in a Spectrum – True or False

A Secchi Disk measures Turbidity in open water such as lakes or oceans

In Physics, a Fluid is the name given to a substance which continually deforms or flows when subject to an applied shear stress, regardless of how small. It is a subset of the phases of matter and includes liquids, gases, plasmas etc – True or False

What does Volkswagen (the automobile ) mean in English…

The word "Concrete", comes from which language...

A Spire is the name given to a perfectly round geometrical  object in three-dimensional space , such as the shape of a round ball – True or False

it is a Sphere

Isotopes are variants of atoms of a particular chemical element, which have differing numbers of neutrons – True or False