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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Jan 1, 2013

 

This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz


The Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging selection of General Engineering 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 ? 
  1. In Electrical Engineering what is the general purpose instrument which measures current - a) LCR meter  b) VU meter  c) Ammeter  d) Oscilloscope
  2. In Mechanical Engineering - a Bell Crank could be described as a type of hammer head - True or False
  3. Gamma ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation - True or False
  4. In the SI system of units - the Siemens (S) is a measure of Electrical Conductance - True or False
  5. Mr. Willy Müller invented the first automatic toilet in 1935 which was popular with Orthodox Jews who were forbidden manual tasks on the Sabbath - True or False
  6. Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor from ancient Rome - True or False
  7. The first rubber balloons were made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 for use in his experiments with hydrogen at the Royal Institution in London - True or False
  8. Considering modes of transport, the Penny Farthing was an early - a) Boat  b) Bicycle  c) Glider  d) Submarine
  9. 10 miles equals how many kilometers – a) 1.609344  b) 16.09344  c) 160.9344  d) 1,609.344
  10. Considering computer systems - Linux was originally developed as a free operating system for Intel x86 based personal computers - True or False
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1) c) Ammeter  2) False - it is a pivoting double lever solid which is used to change the direction of motion  3) True  4) True  5) False - he invented the first telephone answering machine  6) False - It was Ancient Greece  7) True  8) b) Bicycle  9) b) 16.09344 km  10) True
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