The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1137 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 ?
Go to – Engineering the 3R Way for an overview of the 3R Philosophy and link to the full list of topics
Then Take A Break
With the List Of Pages – Engineering Nostalgia for pages of Old Engineer Memories from Engineering practice in the 1960’s/70’s/80’s – with a bit of armed forces and medieval trivia thrown in
Or check out Engineering Odd Bits for odd subject matter – including humor and comment
When installing electrical cabling - A Strain Relief is used to provide a transition from flexible cable to a rigid connector or connection point – True or False
In Chemical Engineering - A Valence Electron is an electron that is the most likely to be NOT involved in a chemical reaction – True or False
A valence electron is an electron that IS the most likely to be involved in a chemical reaction
The word Reflection is derived from the Greek word meaning "alteration" - the word used to describe a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight – True or False
Parallax is the correct answer
What two word name is given to a flexible elastic object that stores mechanical energy when it is twisted…
What name is given to the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before "necking"…
The Buttress Thread form is often used in vices or artillery. It has two different thread profiles and is designed to handle very high axial thrust in one direction with a square thread form and has a sloping thread form (typically at 45 deg) on the other sider – True or False
What name is given to a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport. It involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court…
Lenovo Group Ltd manufactures personal computers and similar technological devices. Lenovo is headquartered in which country…
The Trident Missile is a submarine launched ballistic missile. Which company manufactures the Trident Missile…
What name is given to a mechanical linear actuator that translates rotational motion to linear motion with minimal friction. A threaded shaft provides a spiral raceway for spherical bearings which act as a precision screw. They are able to apply or withstand high thrust loads with very low internal friction…
Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1137
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