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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Mar 15th 2010

 
This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz Questions
  1. With which American auto maker would you associate the name Montego
  2. What is currently estimated to be the worlds most popular mobile phone operating system representing approximately 45 to 50 percent of smartphone sales in 2009
  3. What do we call the temperature at which entropy reaches its minimum value.  It is defined as  0 K or -273.15 deg C or -459.67 deg F
  4. Who was the first person awarded 2 Nobel Prizes
  5. Who's Law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference or voltage across the two points, and inversely proportional to the resistance between them, provided that the temperature remains constant.
  6. In the SI system of units, what does the letter "G" stand for
  7. The Eastman Dry Plate Company and the General Aristo Company, are the forerunners of which company
  8. Beginning with the letter "i", what name is given to the rotating component of a centrifugal pump
  9. What was the largest and most powerful rocket ever built
  10. Saybolt Universal Seconds, Stokes, Poise, are all measures of what
Bonus Question
What am I

In various forms I have been around since before recorded history
Many references to me appear in the King James bible
I am a substitutional alloy
I am used in applications which require low friction
I am used extensively in musical instruments
I am also used in zippers
I am soft and am often used in applications which require non sparking
I am a dull yellow colour
I am an alloy of copper and zinc

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1) Ford / Mercury  2) Symbian OS  3) Absolute Zero 4) Marie Curie  5) Ohm's Law  6) Giga (10 to the power of 9)  7) Kodak  8) Impeller  9) Saturn V  10) Viscosity
Bonus Question - I am Brass

Monday 15 March, 2010 06:59 AM
 
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