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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Jan13, 2014

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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. What computer company was named after the founder's memories of spending a summer in an Oregon orchard - a) Dell  b) Apple  c) Lenovo  d) ASUS
2. George Nissen invented the Trampoline after observing high wire performers bouncing on safety nets - True or False
3. In Process Engineering terminology - SCADA stand for "Stored and Credited Allocated Data Allowance" - True or False
4. The Oroville Dam created Lake Mead in the USA - True or False
5. In Computer Engineering - CRT stands for Crystal Receiver Tape - True or False
6. In welding terminology - MIG stands for "Molten Industrial Gas" - True or False
7. The Steradian is the unit which describes two-dimensional angular spans in three-dimensional space - True or False
8. In world wide web terminology - "URL" stand for "Uniform Resource Locater" - True or False
9. In Mechanical Engineering terminology - "TDC" stand for "Top Dead Centre" - True or False
10. What word is used to describe the act of using other peoples' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of the information - a) Planking  b) Plagiarism  c) Propounding d) Prolactin

When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.
- The Hunt For Red October

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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Jan 06, 2014

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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. A "Harmonic Oscillator" - typically used in early clocks - is also known as a "Pendulum" - True or False
2. What is the square root of 1
3. Aluminium is generally recognised as being the most malleable metal - True or Fals
4. Force, Mass and Acceleration are the three terms represented in Newton's second law of motion -  F = MA - True or False
5. Starfish do not have brains - True or False
6. Telstar is the name of a series of communications satellites.  The first Telstar was built by Bell Telephone Laboratories - True or False
7. The Versailles (France) rail accident  which occurred on 8 May 1842 was the first major rail disaster which caused multiple deaths.  The cause of the accident was - a) Metal Fatigue  b) Driver Error  c) A Landslide  d) The steam boiler exploding
8. One US gallon equals 321.0 cubic inches - True or False
9. Algebra is a branch of mathematics  that studies triangles  and the relationships between the lengths of their sides and the angles between those sides - True or False
10. The effect of acceleration which is felt as weight is called G-force - The G stands for - a) Graded  b) Granular  c) Grabbed d) Gravitational

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
Winston Churchill

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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Dec 30, 2013

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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. First defined by Professor Nicolas Clément in 1824 - The name for the unit of energy - which is derived from the Latin word for heat is the Calorie - True or False
2. What name is given to the joining method -  typically used in woodworking for the corners of drawers, boxes, cabinets etc which is distinguished by the ends being a larger size than the mating slotted apertures and hence resulting in a very strong corner joint - a) Dovetail  b) Eagletail  c) Owltail  d) Crowstail
3. In Engineering - The specified permissible allowable deviation from a dimension is called the - a) Toggle  b) Tolerance  c) Table  d) Train
4. What name is given to the metal joining process in which a groove, fillet or flange joint is bonded by using a nonferrous filler metal which has a melting point above 800 deg F (427 deg C) but below the solid state of the base metals - a) MIG  b) TIG  c) Brazing  d) Soldering
5. In Computer terminology - The Baud Rate is the Serial Communications Data Transmission Rate expressed in bits per second - True or False
6. Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics - True or False
7. A Jimball is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis - True or False
8. Trypanophobia is the fear of what - a) Injections  b) Underachieving  c) Round Shapes  d) Snakes
9. In Computer terminology CPU stands for Central Processing Unit - True or False
10. A Numismatist studies - a) Numbers b) Coins c) Sequences d) Stars

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Dec 23, 2013

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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 Clock Rate is the speed at which a microprocessor in a computer executes instructions - True or False
2. What name is given to a lifting device which is often equipped with ropes and sheaves and which is used to lift or lower materials - a) Stalk  b) Pigeon  c) Crane  d) Penguin
3. What is the name of the instrument designed to observe distant objects - a) Telescope  b) Telegraph  c) Telework  d) Teleport
4. Distillation is the method of separating chemical substances based on difference in volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture - True or False
5. The Gulf of California is in which country - a) USA  b) Mexico  c) Honduras  d) Guatemala
6. Adiabatic (or Isocaloric)_ is a chemical process in which no heat is transferred to or from the working fluid - True or False
7. The SI unit of energy is the Pascal (Pa) - True or False
8. Which article of clothing did Mary Phelps Jacob patent  - a) Nylon Stockings  b) Brassiere  c) Corset  d) Clip On Tie
9. German airships of the early 1930's where called Zeitgeists - True or False
10. Before finding fame as an entertainer, Scottish comedian Billy Connelly worked as a Plumber  - True or False

quotation :-
"If you are not living on the edge, you take up too much room. "
Native American saying

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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Dec17, 2013

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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 Saturation Temperature of a liquid is more commonly known as the Boiling Point - True or False
2. In Japanese manufacturing terminology  - SMED stand for "Standardised Manufacturing of Engineering Design" - True or False
3. "The Northern Lights"phenomena occurs when when highly charged electrons from the solar wind interact with elements in the earth's atmosphere - This is also known as "The Aurora Borealis" - True or False
4. In angular measurement - 180 divided by pi -  is called a "Minute" - True or False
5. In coal fired power station terminology Carbon Capture and Storage is also known as Sequestration - True or False
6. Polymer bank notes where developed and first used in Germany - True or False
7. Samuel F.B. Morse invented the alphabet for the blind - True or False
8. Phantom, Ghost and Wraith are model names from which luxury automobile manufacturer - a) Mercedes Benz  b) Audi  c) Ferrari d) Rolls Royce
9. Nk is the chemical symbol for nickel  - True or False
10. In the early 1900's, in the US, the Democratic Party was also known as The Bull Moose Party - True or False

Thought for the week -

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either

- Leo Burnett

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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Dec 9, 2013

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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. "A Chain"  is the name used by surveyors for the unit of length which equals 66 feet (22yards) - True or False
2. In Electrical Engineering UPS stand for - a) Under Process Standard  b) Uninterruptible Power Supply  c) User Post Supply  d) Unusual Pressure Source
3. In Chemical Engineering terminology -  VOC stand for Virtual Oxygen Compound - True or False
4. Old Nick is a slang name for "The Devil" - True or False
5. What is the name of the device which transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled electrical conductors - a) Transporter  b) Armature  c) Transformer  d) Coil
6. A Centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, which puts a substance in rotation around a fixed axis, applying a force perpendicular to the axis thereby using the sedimentation principle and internal forces to separate substances of greater and lesser density - True or False
7. What is the highly combustible gas which is used with oxygen in a welding process - a) Argon  b) Acetylene  c) Ammonia  d) Methane
8. Aluminium has a high electrical and thermal conductivity, second only to Silver among pure metals at room temperature - True or False
9. Singer - David Robert Jones is better known as David Bowie - True or False
10.  A tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid like shape at the top is called an Obelisk - True or False

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Think About It

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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere

Frank A. Clark

Engineering Trivia Quiz - Dec 2, 2013

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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 temperature at which a given parcel of air must be cooled, at constant barometric pressure, for water vapor to condense into water is called the Drip Point - True or False
2. Stanley Kubrick directed the 1972 film "The Godfather" - True or False
3. In welding - TIG stand for "Tungsten Inert Gas" - True or False
4. The Titanic had 2 sister ships - True or False
5. What is the approximate speed of sound at sea level in dry air and at 21deg C - a) 443m/s b) 433m/s c) 344m/s  d) 334 m/s
6. The "Graf Zeppelin" was the name of the German airship which burst into flames when landing at Lakehurst on May 6th 1937 - True or False
7. Amarillo, Texas has the worlds largest reserves of Helium gas - True or False
8. Lockheed Martin builds the Patriot missiles - True or False
9. In a strength of materials context  - "Shear Stress"  is the name given to the stress created when a pair of forces act parallel to the area e.g. - scissors cutting paper - True or False
10. Ozone is a powerful oxidant  - True or False

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Saying of the Week

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The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.


Abraham  Lincoln