Engineering Trivia Quiz - June 14th, 2010
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This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz Questions
- What is the current name of the telecommunications company which started life in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation
- Research in Motion, the wireless device company which produces the BlackBerry has its headquarters in which country
- A Japanese spacecraft known as "Hayabusa" is expected to return to earth on June 13, with samples of asteroid dust. What does Hayabusa mean in English
- Beginning with the letter "T", what name is given to the degree to which a substance is able to damage an exposed organism. The skull and crossbones is a common symbol
- What name is given to the device often used in physics classes to demonstrate the principles of hydraulics and pneumatics. It is a hydraulic machine invented by a first century mathematician and physicist which is often confused as a perpetual motion machine
- What name, beginning with the "P" is often given to the smallest gear in a gear drive train
- Introduced around 1750 by Joseph Black, what is the expression which describes the amount of energy released or absorbed by a chemical substance during a change of state that occurs without changing its temperature. The term is derived from the latin "latere"
- Is a Hoopoe a - bonnet, a bangle or a bird
- What is the name of a line joining two non consecutive vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, tho' the name is often given to any sloping line
- What is the Chemical element whose name is derived from the Greek word meaning "Pale Green"
Bonus Question
What am I I am a mineral I am an allotrope of carbon I am an electrical conductor I am the most stable form of carbon, under standard conditions I may be considered to be the highest grade of coal, although I am not generally used as a fuel because I am difficult to ignite There are 3 principle types of me, Crystalline, Amorphous and Lump I was used by the 4th millennium B.C. to create ceramic paint for pottery decoration Around 1500AD, a large source of me was discovered in Cumbria, England and the local population used it to mark sheep I was named in 1789 by Abraham Gottlob Werner and my name comes from the Greek "graphein" meaning "to draw/write" I am commonly used in pencils and called lead
Hold down the left mouse button and drag below - to reveal the answer 1) Motorola 2) Canada (Waterloo, Ontario) 3) Falcon 4) Toxicity 5) Heron's Fountain 6) Pinion 7) Latent Heat 8) Bird 9) Diagonal 10) Chlorine
What am I -I am Graphite
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Monday 14 June, 2010 08:00 AM |