This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz

A mix of General Engineering Questions which are guaranteed to test your knowledge.


Try to answer them yourself or in a group, maybe in a coffee or lunch break - print out the questions and see how good your group is.


It's often difficult for a single individual to have  the spread of knowledge, but it is interesting to see what obscure knowledge people do in fact have tucked away in the dark recesses of their brains.
 Sometimes an answer is a combination of knowledge from different people.
 One person starts the ball rolling and others can piggy back from that start

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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  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.  Again we don't own the knowledge, but an acknowledgement would be appreciated

1. N m or N-m is a unit of Torque in the metric system, what does this stand for 
2. Beginning with the letter "V", what is the name given to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point
3. What 4 letter name is given to any, flat floating structure, typically used for transport over water
4. Beginning with the letter "A" and derived from the name of the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, what name is given to a procedure or formula for solving a problem in Engineering, Mathematics or Computer science
5. In engineering we often refer to 3D models.  What does 3D stand for
6. What name is given to a three-terminal resistor with a sliding contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider, current divider or other device
7. What oxide has the chemical formula Si02
8. When measuring or classifying wire, what name is given to the diameter or cross sectional area of the wire
9. What name is given to a word or element which is added at the end of another word to adjust or qualify its meaning
10. What is the two word name used to describe the chemical reaction which occurs to degrade metals when two dissimilar metals are placed in contact with each other in the presence of an electrolyte
     

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1) Newton metre  2) Vibration  3) Raft  4) Algorithm  5) Three Dimensional  6) Potentiometer  7) Silicon Dioxide  8) Gauge  9) Suffix  10) Galvanic Corrosion