This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz Questions

Engineers always love a challenge and there is no better challenge than General Engineering Knowledge.

 It's often difficult for a single individual to have the spread of knowledge to answer all of the questions, but a group of Engineers often do in fact have many of the answers tucked away in the dark recesses of their brains. 
Many times an answer is a combination of knowledge from different people.  One person starts the ball rolling and others piggy back from that start  .  
Answering trivia questions can also be used as a lead in to business activities.  Typically as a starter to meetings, in order to "break the ice" and get some lateral thinking or maybe to start a brainstorming session. It can start the thinking process and get people to look "outside of the square".   Complimentary to, and also an excellent way to develop and stimulate the thought process is to use creativity exercises such as those found on sites such as as http://creativitygames.net/
  If you are organising a trivia competition, feel free to use any of the engcom questions and please give us a mention. Maybe your company has an internal (or external) news letter. We don't own the knowledge, but an acknowledgement would be appreciated

Karoshi is a Japanese word which means a) death from overwork b) death from being electrocuted c) death from carbon monoxide poisoning d) death from drowning
Solar flares can sometimes leave the sun and zoom towards Earth. When the high speed particles from the sun contact the Earth's magnetic field it produces a lighting effect known as what
What is the name of the scale which measures the spicy heat of a chilli pepper
What common wavy packaging material was patented in 1856 and first used as a liner for tall hats
Beginning with the letter "I", what name is given to variants of atoms of a particular chemical element , which have differing numbers of neutrons
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta are the first 4 letters in which alphabet
A Ballista is a) a type of coffee b) an ancient missile weapon c) a moon of the planet Neptune d) an Italian ball game
What name is given to the noise made by lightening during a violent storm
What is the name of the scale commonly used to represent the speed of an object when it is traveling close to or above the speed of sound
Vincent Damon Furnier; American rock singer, songwriter and musician is more commonly known as who ?

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1) a) death from overwork 2) The Aurora 3) Scoville Scale 4) Corrugated Paper 5) Isotopes 6) The Greek Alphabet 7) b) an ancient missile weapon 8) Thunder 9) Mach Number 10) Alice Cooper

Monday 25 April, 2011 10:54 AM

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