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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Aug 29, 2011

 
This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz
A mix of General Engineering Questions which are guaranteed to test your knowledge
  1. In computer science and beginning with the letter "M", what name is given to a rule or pattern specifying how an  input sequence (typically characters) are to be mapped to an output sequence (typically a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure
  2. Who was the Roman God of war
  3. What is the "imperial" unit of length which was used to measure the depth of water
  4. What name is given to a mechanical joining process where a metal cylinder is located in holes and each end of the cylinder deformed in order to form a fixed joint
  5. Osborne Reynolds is associated with which branch of Engineering a) Fluid Mechanics  b) Civil Engineering  c) Electrical Engineering  d) Cryogenics
  6. Beginning with the letter "A", what name is given to a central shaft typically used for rotating  wheels , or gears
  7. In the manufacturing and engineering sense, what does PLM stand for
  8. What century saw the invention of the shoelace
  9. Who founded The General Electric Company ( or GE)
  10. From what company's plant did toxic gas escape in Bhopal, with devastating results?

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1) Macro  2) Mars  3) Fathom  4) Riveting  5) a) Fluid Mechanics  6) Axle  7) Product Lifecycle Management  8) The eighteenth  9) Thomas Edison  10) Union Carbide (more than 20,000 deaths resulted from the 1984 accident)




 

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