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Engineering Trivia Quiz - May 6, 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. The vernier scale was invented in its modern form by Greek mathematician Pythagorus - True or False
  2. An incandescent light bulb (or globe)  is an electric light produced by a filament wire heated to a high temperature by an electric current passing through it, until it glows - True or False
  3. The first lighthouse in America was at - a) Boston  b) New York  c) Charleston  d) Plymouth
  4. Steel became known as Pig Iron because the medieval steel workers had a diet high in pork - True or False
  5. The abacus is a measuring instrument used in parts of Asia for measuring the weight of foods such as rice - True or False
  6. A semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power is called a Transistor - True or False
  7. Lake Mead - Nevada, Arizona is the largest reservoir in the United States - True or False
  8. 5/16" equals 0.4375" as a decimal - True or False
  9. Chalmers Motor Car Company was an automobile  company located in Detroit, Michigan  and the brand is owned by Chrysler  - True or False
  10. In machinery - flywheels have a significant moment of inertia  and thus resist changes in rotational speed - True or False

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1) False - it was invented in 1631 by the French mathematician Pierre Vernier   2) True  3) a) Boston  4) False - the ingot molds formed a branch structure which resembled piglets suckling on a sow (mother pig)  5) False - is a calculating tool used primarily for performing simple arithmetic processes  6) True  7) True  8) False - it is 0.3125"  9) True  10) True

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