Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1146
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1146 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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Automobile manufacturer Fiat was founded (and is based) in which European country…
Turin, Piedmont region
What name is given to a machine which spins at high speed in order to separate substances which are in solution..
Introduced around 1750 by Joseph Black and derived from the Latin word “latere” – The expression which describes the amount of energy released or absorbed by a chemical substance during a change of state that occurs without changing its temperature is called – Latent Heat – True or False
A digital image format written in XML is called SVG – SVG stands for Standard Viewable Graphics – True or False
SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics
An aircraft nicknamed "the tin goose" was produced by which automobile company…
the actual name was the Ford 4AT Trimotor
Bastard Cut, Second Cut and Smooth Cut are types of which tools…
Scottish comedian Billy Connelly was a plumber before he became a professional comedian – True or False
he was a Welder
The temperature 0 degrees K equals how many degrees C…
What name is given to the residue generated in the combustion of coal which is often used to supplement Portland cement in concrete production…
Anhydrous describes a chemical or other solid substance whose water of crystallization has been removed - True or False