Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.977: Can You Get Better Results
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.977: Can You Get Better Results 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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In Engineering, what name is given to the twisting of an object due to an applied rotary force perpendicular to the axis …
What name is given to the device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine …
In statistics, Standard Deviation is the name is given to a widely used measurement of variability or diversity which shows how much variation there is from an average value – True or False
Dry Ice is the solid form of Carbon Monoxide - True or False
Dry Ice is the solid form of Carbon Dioxide
A Rheostat is a two-terminal variable resistor – True or False
A Parapet is wall like barrier at the edge of a roof , terrace , balcony or other structure , primarily used to prevent the spread of fire but was originally designed to defend buildings from military attack – True or False
Honing is the process of working a metal's surface to improve its material properties, usually by mechanical means, such as hammer blows or similar - True or False
Honing is an abrasive machining process that produces a precision surface on a metal workpiece by scrubbing an abrasive stone against it along a controlled path
Obsidian is the naturally occurring volcanic glass which is formed as an extrusive igneous rock when felsic lava is extruded from a volcano and cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth – True or False
In production engineering terminology CMMS stands for Combined Maintenance Management Standard - True or False
CMMS stands for Computerized Maintenance Management System