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Engineering Trivia Quiz - June 28th, 2010

 
This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz Questions
  1.  Beginning with the letter "R", what name is given to a device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction
  2. What name is given to the base unit of modern Chinese currency in the Chinese language
  3. What name has been given to the first tropical storm of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season
  4. Guiding of light by refraction, the principle that makes fiber optics possible, was first demonstrated by Daniel Colladon  and Jacques Babinet  in Paris in which decade of the 1800's
    a) 1820's  b) 1840's  c) 1860's  d) 1880's
  5. In optics, what name is given to the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency a) bipolarisation  b) diorama c) dispersion d) twinversion
  6. Edwin H Land founded which international consumer electronics and eyewear company in
  7. Where was William Edwards Deming,the American quality and productivity guru born
  8. Beginning with the letter "V", what name is given to random or periodic mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point
  9. With which American auto maker would you associate the name Cougar
  10. Zn is the chemical symbol for what metal

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1) Ratchet  2)The yuan is the unit of account whilst the renminbi is the actual currency, we will accept either  3) Tropical Storm Alex  4) b) 1840's  5) c) dispersion  6) Polaroid Corporation  7) Sioux City, Iowa  8) Vibration  9) Mercury  10) Zinc

 

 

 

Monday 28 June, 2010 08:31 AM
 
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