Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1135
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1135 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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Honing is the process of working a metal's surface to improve its material properties, usually by mechanical means, such as hammer blows or similar - True or False
Honing is an abrasive machining process that produces a precision surface on a metal workpiece by scrubbing an abrasive stone against it along a controlled path
A Parapet is a wall like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure, primarily used to prevent the spread of fire. It was originally designed to defend buildings from military attack – True or False
A Potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider, current divider or other device – True or False
In Engineering, we often refer to 3D models - 3D stands for – Third Distance – True or False
3D stands for - Three Dimensional
In Statistics, Standard Deviation is the name is given to a widely used measurement of variability or diversity which shows how much variation there is from an average value – True or False
A PIR sensor measures infrared light radiating from objects in its field of view. PIR stands for Protected Internal Sensor – True or False
PIR stands for Passive Infrared Sensor
An IP address is a numerical label assigned to devices participating in a computer network and stands for International Protocol – True or False
the correct answer = Internet Protocol
In Mechanical and Process Engineering the words Tube and Pipe are interchangeable and describe exactly the same item – True or False
Tube is thin walled hollow section usually specified by the outside dimension – Pipe is thicker wall (generally round) hollow section usually specified by the nominal bore