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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Mar 5, 2012
 

This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz


The Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging selection 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 probably did know !

  1. What name is given to a brushless DC electric motor that can divide a full rotation into a large number of steps. The motor's position can be controlled precisely  without any feedback mechanism   a) Study Motor  b) Stepper Motor  c) Precision Motor   d) Interruptible Motor
  2. What is the name of the general-purpose, procedural , imperative  programming language  developed by IBM in the 1950's which is derived from  "The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System"
  3. 1/4" equals how many millimetres
  4. "moment of force" is derived from force divided by area - true or false
  5. Poise is a measure of    -    a) radiation  b) pressure  c) viscosity  d) surface tension
  6. A payload carrying projectile is also known as  -  a) rock  b) shell  c)  pebble
    d) stone
  7. An analog  sound  storage medium  consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral  groove is also called    -   a) Gramoxone record   b) Gramophonedzie record c) Grammar record  d) Gramophone record
  8. What name is given to a process of heat treatment used to increase the toughness of iron -based alloys  a) Templing  b) Tempting  c) Tempering  d) Temperaturing 
  9. The Mariana Trench is the deepest  underground mine in the world  - True or false
  10. In 1833, Sir Charles Wheatstone improved and popularised a measuring device for what property   a) Electrical Resistance  b) Light Intensity  c) Viscosity  d) Sound Intensity

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1) b) Stepper Motor  2) Fortran  3) 6.35  4) false - force x distance  5) c) viscosity  6) d) shell  7) d) Gramophone record  8) c) Tempering  9) False - The Mariana Trench is the deepest  part of the world's oceans  10) a) Electrical Resistance
Monday 5 March, 2012 05:06 AM
 
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