Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1148
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1148 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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Were is the Hang Seng stock market index located…
What is the name given to the process of making helical grooves in the barrel of a gun or firearm, which thus gives the shell a spin and improves its aerodynamic stability and accuracy…
What name is given to the process which joins materials usually metals or thermoplastics, by coalescence…
What is the third most common gas in the Earths atmosphere…
Isaac Newton introduced the concept of moment of inertia, which is is a measure of an object's resistance to changes to its rotation - True or False
The concept was introduced by Leonhard Euler in his book Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum in 1765
The process of physically cutting a design or similar onto a very hard surface is called …
A League is an ancient Celtic unit of length and was the distance a person could walk in about one hour – True or False
Pteromechanophobia is also known as aerophobia, aviatophobia and aviophobia and is a fear of what…
Saturated Steam is the name given to steam at equilibrium with liquid water. It defines the boundary between wet steam and superheated steam on the temperature-enthalpy diagram – True or False
American multinational technology company Cisco Systems was founded in 1984 by Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack – True or False