Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.988
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.988 is 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 ?
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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
- With the List Of Pages – Engineering Nostalgia for pages of Old Engineer Memories from Engineering practice in the 1960’s/70’s/80’s – with a bit of armed forces and medieval trivia thrown in
- Or check out Engineering Odd Bits for odd subject matter – including humor and comment
How many planets orbit the sun ... (note that this is a trick question)
The correct answer is 8 - Note that Jupiter is now classified as a "dwarf planet" which is a separate classification
Six Sigma, the business management strategy was originally developed by which company in 1986 ...
Historically, Wind Electric Generators have been attached to Asynchronous loads - True or False
A Spire is the name given to a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space , such as the shape of a round ball – True or False
A Sphere is the name given to a perfectly round geometrical object
What is the name of the process which strengthens a metal by repeated plastic deformation ...
In the Roman numeral system the letter C equals 50 – True or False
In the Roman numeral system the letter C = 100