Engineering Trivia Quiz - Aug 8, 2011
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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
- In Engineering, what name is given to the twisting of an object due to an applied rotary force perpendicular to the axis
- Starting with the letter "C", what name is given to the device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine
- In statistics, what two word name is given to a widely used measurement of variability or diversity which shows how much variation there is from an average value
- In Engineering, what does CAE stand for
- What name is given to a two-terminal variable resistor
- Originally used to defend buildings from military attack, what name is given to a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof , terrace , balcony or other structure , primarily used to prevent the spread of fire
- Beginning with the letter "H", what name is given to an abrasive machining process that produces a precision surface on a metal workpiece by scrubbing an abrasive stone against it along a controlled path
- Produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth and beginning with the letter "O", what name is given to the naturally occurring volcanic glass which is formed as an extrusive igneous rock
- Who was the Roman King of the Gods
- American pop singer-songwriter Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is better known as who
Hold down the left mouse button and drag below - to reveal the answer 1) Torque 2) Carburetor 3) Standard Deviation 4) Computer Aided Engineering 5) Rheostat 6) Parapet 7) Honing 8) Obsidian 9) Jupiter 10) Lady Gaga
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