Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1151
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1151 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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Looking For A Better Way
Looking For A Better Way
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- With the List Of Pages – Engineering Nostalgia for pages of Old Engineer Memories from Engineering practice in the 1960’s/70’s/80’s – with a bit of armed forces and medieval trivia thrown in
- Or check out Engineering Odd Bits for odd subject matter – including humor and comment
In IT - a general term that covers several disciplines that study the effect of design on the ease of use and level of satisfaction with a product, site or system is called - User Experience – This is generally shortened to UEX – True or False
User Experience is shortened to UX
The Buttress Thread form is often used in vices or artillery. It has two different thread profiles and is designed to handle very high axial thrust in one direction with a square thread form and has a sloping thread form (typically at 45 deg) on the other side – True or False
What is the value of pi to 5 places of decimal….
Although largely superseded - VHS was a consumer level video standard developed by Japanese company JVC and launched in 1976. VHS stands for Video Home System – True or False
JPEG stands for – “Joint Photographic Exponential Graphic” – True or False
JPEG stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Group”
What is an Oubliette …
A component in an internal combustion engine which converts the rotating motion of the camshaft into linear motion of the valves, either directly or indirectly is called a Spline – True or False
The correct answer is a Tappet
PVC is a thermoplastic polymer - PVC stands for PolyVinyl Chlorine – True or False
PVC stands for PolyVinyl Chloride
What is the name of the thick strips of copper or aluminum which conduct electricity within a switchboard, distribution board, substation or other electrical apparatus…
In automobile engineering terminology– a Gudgeon Pin fixes the steering rack and pinion linkage – True or False
A Gudgeon Pin (also called a Wrist pin) connects the piston in an internal combustion engine to the connecting rod and provides a bearing for the connecting rod to pivot upon as the piston moves