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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Nov 29, 2010

 
This Weeks Trivia Quiz Questions
  1.  Invented at Bell Telephone laboratories in 1936, what name is given to an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field
  2. Which global technology company was founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation
  3. What 2 word name is given to materials whose hardness and ability to retain a cutting edge make them suitable for use in the cutting and shaping of metals, wood and similar
  4. Touring, Softail, Dyna, Sportster and VRSC are the names of family models for which motorcycle company
  5. Elias Howe, Whitcomb Judson, Colonel Lewis Walker and Gideon Sundback are people who (at various times) worked on which well known invention for temporarily joining 2 edges of fabric
  6. Who devised the first standard screw thread in 1841
  7. 1 meter equals how many feet.  To 3 places of decimal
  8. What is the 2 word name given to the factor which is used to indicate the perceived temperature which a person feels on exposed skin  due to the effects of wind and air  temperature
  9. PIIGS or PIGS is a grouping acronym  used by international bond analysts, academics , and by the international economic press that refer to the faltering economies of which European countries
  10. Who's law states that - If a metal is lightly stressed, a temporary deformation, presumably permitted by an elastic displacement of the atoms in the space lattice, takes place. Removal of the stress results in a gradual return of the metal to its original shape and dimensions

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1) Reed Switch  2) Intel  3) Tool Steel  4) Harley-Davidson  5) Zip or Zipper  6) Joseph Whitworth  7) 3.281 feet  8) Wind Chill  9) Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain  10) Hookes Law
 

Monday 29 November, 2010 08:26 AM
 
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