Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1150
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1150 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 computer terminology - CUSPY stands for Computer Ultimate Standard Program – True or False
CUSPY stands for Commonly Used System Program
In which European country is the Ice Hotel Built each Year…
A Spectrometer is a scientific instrument used measure distance on building and construction sites – True or False
A Spectrometer is used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon
A 4 Jaw Chuck would typically be found on what metal working machine…
In Chemical Engineering - Stable atoms have as many electrons as protons in the nucleus. The electrons gather around the nucleus in quantum orbitals following four basic rules called the Aufbau principle – True or False
In Electrical Engineering - What name is given to a passive electronic component that stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field...
What name is given to a device which is typically used to restrict the flow of fluids or filter light…
In mathematics the first 2 numbers in a Fibonacci Sequence are either 2 and 2 or 0 and 2 - True or False
the first 2 numbers in a Fibonacci Sequence are either 1 and 1 or 0 and 1
Steam Engines are External Combustion engines - True or False
Decimal time is not a practical concept and has never been used - True or False
Decimal time was used by the Chinese and the French during the French Revolution