Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1031

The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1031 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 ?

Previous Quiz – No.1030     Next Quiz – No.1032       For a full list of all quizzes go to – List Of Engineering Quizzes

Looking For A Better Way

Looking For A Better Way

Looking For A Better Way

  • Go to – Engineering the 3R Way for an overview of the 3R Philosophy and link to the full list of topics

Then Take A Break

 

 

The Sexagesimal numeral system is a numeral system with sixty as its base - True or False

Piquet is a ...

What is a Sickle …

A Sickle is a traditional agricultural tool with a curved blade used for manual cutting of ground cover or crops

Iron Disulfide ( FeS2 ) is also known as ...

In mathematics, An Integer is a number that has no fractional part, and no digits after the decimal point and can be positive, negative or zero - True or False

In Roman numerals, what does the letter "M" equal...

First proposed in 1859 and with the symbol R, what is the thermodynamic temperature scale named after a Glasgow (Scotland) university engineer and physicist...

Amplitude is the magnitude  of change in the oscillating variable with each oscillation within an oscillating system - True or False

Intrinsic Safety is a protection technique for safe operation of electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres and under irregular operating conditions - True or False

What is the name of the process of working a metal's surface to improve its material properties, usually by mechanical means such as hammer blows or by blasting with shot...