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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Nov 1, 2010

 
This Weeks Trivia Quiz Questions
  1. What name is given to a general term for a series of iron oxides  formed by the reaction of iron  and oxygen  in the presence of water or air moisture
  2. What city is the capital of Poland
  3. What name is given to steam  at equilibrium  with liquid water . It defines the boundary between wet steam and superheated steam  on the temperature-enthalpy diagram
  4. Cisco Systems derived its name from which North American city
  5. Headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, what is the name of the global American pharmaceutical , medical devices  and consumer packaged goods company founded in 1886 by brothers  Robert, James and Edward
  6. What name is given to the technique used to inhibit corrosion on buried or immersed structures by supplying an electrical charge that suppresses the electro-chemical reaction
  7. What is the name of a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation  and is used to detect whether objects emit nuclear radiation  
  8. Pythagoras is generally regarded as the first person to study the properties of pendulums, around 500BC - True or false
  9. With which American auto maker would you associate the name Chevelle
  10. A Tong Test measures what
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  1. 1) Rust  2) Warsaw  3) Saturated Steam  4) San Francisco  5) Johnson & Johnson  6) Cathodic Protection  7) Geiger counter (or Geiger-Müller counter)  8) False, Italian scientist Galileo Galilei is generally regarded as the first to study the properties of pendulums, beginning around 1602  9) Chevrolet  10) Electrical current in a circuit (measured in amperes)




Monday 1 November, 2010 07:39 AM
 
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