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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Mar 22nd 2010

 
This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz Questions
  1. Water droplets which are carried out of a cooling tower with the exhaust air  are called what.  a) Drift  b) Draft  c) Dreggs  d) Drips
  2. Olivia Newton John was born in which country
  3. What name is given to he ratio between real power and apparent power in an electrical  circuit
  4. Beginning with the letter "R", what name is given to the rotating part of a helicopter which generates lift
  5. Why did the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantine 162 square miles in the Napa Valley on Tuesday 9th March 2010
  6. What term is used to describe fluids or gels whose viscosity decreases when agitated
  7. Saturn V, N-1, Ares-1, Delta1V, Atlas V are all types of what
  8. What name is given to the process by which two light nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus, and in doing so release considerable energy
  9. With which American auto maker would you associate the name Barracuda
  10. The temperature 0 K equals how many deg C


    Bonus Question

My inventor originally set out to find a replacement for shellac
I am an early plastic
My chemical name is polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride,
I was developed between 1907 and 1909 by a Belgian chemist
I was first used because of my electrically nonconductive and heat-resistant properties
The American Catalin Corporation acquired my formulas in 1927 and currently manufactures cast resins
Today, I am manufactured and produced in sheet, rod and tube form
I am used for for many industrial applications in the electronics, power generation and aerospace industries
I am sold under a variety of trade names including Garolite.
The chemist who developed me was Dr. Leo Baekeland  and my generic name closely resembles this name
In my early days I was widely used in radio, telephone casings, electrical insulators,  kitchenware, jewelry, pipe stems, and children's toys.

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1) a) Drift  2) England  3) The Power Factor  4) Rotor  5) To try and stop the spread of the European grapevine moth
6) Thixotropic  7) Rockets  8) Fusion  9) Plymouth/Chrysler  10) 0 kelvin = minus 273.12 deg C
Bonus Question - I am Bakelite

 

 

Monday 22 March, 2010 06:41 AM
 
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