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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Dec 05, 2011

 

This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz

Enjoy the Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging mix of general Engineering questions and answers 
- Sometimes you just don't know what you don't know,  but you're sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you did know !
  1. What is the largest man made object in space
  2. Vertigo is the common name for a green pigment formed when copper, brass  or bronze  is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time. - True or False 
  3. What name beginning with the letter "I" is given to variants of atoms of a particular chemical element, which have differing numbers of neutrons
  4. The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is  a) a 4 wheel drive track through the Atacama Desert  b) a radio telescope  located in the Atacama desert ,  c) an underground complex of tunnels in the Atacama desert  d) an unmanned weather monitoring airship in the Atacama desert
  5. What is the name of a type of armour  consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh
  6. 100 degrees Fahrenheit equals how many degrees Celsius
  7. What is the generic name for a material or substance typically used to reduces or prevent the transmission of heat, sound, electricity or similar
  8. What is the opposite of compressive strength
  9. Who was the Greek God of War
  10. A PIR sensor measures infrared light radiating from objects in its field of view.  What does PIR stand for


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1) The International Space Station ... 51m wide, 109m long, 20m high  2) False - Verdigris is the correct name for this condition  3) Isotopes  4) b) a radio telescope  located in the Atacama desert   5) Chainmail or Mail  6)  37.8  7) Insulation  8) Tensile strength  9) Ares  10) Passive Infrared Sensor







Monday 5 December, 2011 07:19 AM
 
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