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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Oct 11, 2010

 
This Weeks Trivia Quiz Questions
  1. Malware is short for what
  2. What is the oldest  "Off Road Vehicle" marque
  3. The Deutscher Aktien Index is commonly known as what 3 letter acronym 
  4. What name is given to the process of making helical grooves in the barrel  of a gun  or firearm , which gives the shell a spin and thus improves its aerodynamic  stability and accuracy
  5. What name is given to the process which joins materials  usually metals or thermoplastics , by coalescence
  6. What name is given to a renewable energy source which uses  living, or recently living organisms such as plant matter, wood, waste, (hydrogen) gas, alcohol fuels etc to generate electricity or heat
  7. Pteromechanophobia is also known as aerophobia, aviatophobia and aviophobia and is a fear of what?
  8. What word beginning with the letter "C" is used to describe a surface which is a series of alternate furrows and ridges
  9. Beginning with the letter "V", what word is used to describe a gas phase at a temperature where the same substance can also exist in the liquid  or solid  state, below the critical temperature  of the substance
  10. The Jebel Ali desalination plant is the largest desalination plant in the world.  In which country is it located a) United Arab Emirates  b) Kuwait  c) Saudi Arabia d) Jordan

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1) Malicious Software  2) Jeep  3) DAX  (a blue chip  stock market index consisting of the 30 major German  companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange)  4) Rifling  5) Welding  6) Biomass  7) A fear of Flying or of being on an Airplane  8) Corrugate  9) Vapor  10) a) United Arab Emirates

Monday 11 October, 2010 09:33 AM
 
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