This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz

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


Engineers have many answers to many questions.


In some instances a Trivia Quiz can 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

1. In the Roman numeral system, what is the number XCIII
2. What name is given to the event when the moon comes exactly between the sun and the earth
3. The Scovile scale which measures the spicy heat of chilli peppers was named after Scovile in Mexico which produces the hottest chillis.  True or False
4. Scottish-born Robert Gair invented what common packaging container in 1890 
5. The first construction cranes where invented by who - a) Greeks  b) Romans  c) Chinese  d) Eygyptians
6. What name is given to a triangle with all sides having the same length
7. In physics, and beginning with the letter "R", what name is given to the process in which energetic  particles or energy or waves travel through a medium or space.  There are 2 types - ionising and non ionising 
8. Who is the hammer wielding Norse God associated with thunder
9. Beginning with the letter 'C", what name is given to the part of an engine  or machine which translates reciprocating  linear  piston motion into rotation
10. What is the more common name for Atmospheric Convection
    
    

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1) 93  2) Solar Eclipse  3) False, it is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scovile  4) the pre-cut paperboard  box which was also the forerunner of the corrugated box  5) a) Greeks  6) Equilateral Triangle  7) Radiation  8) Thor  9) Crankshaft  10) Wind