Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1139
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1139 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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In Electrical Engineering - A Diode is a semiconductor device that essentially acts as a one-way switch for current. - True or False
CH3COOH is the molecular formula for which acid…
A Galvanometer is an electromechanical instrument used for detecting and indicating an electric current – True or False
A Turbocharger is a smaller secondary internal combustion engine attached to a larger primary engine which creates an increase in power - True or False
It is a forced induction device used to allow more power to be produced for an engine of a given size
The diagonal side of a right angle triangle, the side opposite the 90 degree right angle is also called the Hypothesis– True or False
it is called the Hypotenuse
Depicted as a handsome, beardless youth with long hair and a laurel wreath, who was the Greek God of music, healing, plague, prophecies, poetry, and archery...
The structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants is an organic compound with the formula (C 6H 10O 5)n and is called Cellulose – True or False
The ability of a body or substance to resume its original shape or size when a distorting force is removed is called ...
What American automobile company was founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland...
The Stratosphere is the name given to the second major layer of the Earth's atmosphere, it is just above the Troposphere, and below the Mesosphere – True or False