Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1144
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1144 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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When granular free flowing material’s are allowed to pile on a flat surface, there is a unique angle naturally formed by the external surface of the material - relative to the horizontal plane. This is called the Angle of Respond – True or False
This is called the Angle of Repose
The word laser started as an acronym for - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation - True or False
H3PO4 is the chemical symbol for which acid…
A Volute Spring is a compression spring in the form of a cone under compression with the coils sliding past each other – True or False
A Diode acts like a one-way valve that allows an electrical current to flow in only one direction – True or False
Irish Moss is a type of…
In Electrical Engineering – What name is given to an electronic instrument usually used to measure the number of cycles of oscillation, or pulses per second in a periodic electronic signal...
Toxic gas escaped from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984 - resulting in several thousand deaths. The plant was operated by which multinational chemical company…
The gas voltaic battery or "fuel cell"was invented by Sir William Grove in 1839 True or False
The letters in the German automobile company BMW stand for - Bonn Munitions Works - True or False
BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works