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Engineering Trivia Quiz - Mar 12, 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. A natural light display in the sky, in the high latitude Arctic and Antarctic regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere is called   -  a) an Aeon    b) an Aeolian  c)  an Aurecon  d) an Aurora
  2. Genealogy is the science comprising the study of solid Earth , the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves  - True or False
  3. The word "Permeable" describes a material through which substances, such as liquids or gases, cannot pass - True or False
  4. Pliers which can be locked into position, using an over toggle lever are also known as - a) Squirrel grips  b) Mole Grips  c) Beaver Grips  d) Badger grips
  5. Steel that has been heated above its upper critical temperature and then cooled in standing air is called normalized-steel. - True or False
  6. A thermopile is an electronic device that converts thermal energy  into electrical energy . - True or False
  7. Freezing point on the Fahrenheit temperature scale = 23 degrees - true or false
  8. A howitzer is a type of artillery characterized by  - a) it's long barrel  b) it's short barrel  c) it's wide barrel  d) it's narrow barrel
  9. Bar, Pascal,  Pieze,  Torr are all measures of what  -  a) pressure  b) work  c) power  d) radiation
  10. 3/4" equals how many millimetres

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1) d) an Aurora   2) False -Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history - Geology is the study of solid earth  3) False - permeable allow passage - "Impermeable" prevents passage  4)  b) Mole Grips  5) True  6) True  7) false = 32 degrees  8) b) it's short barrel  9) a) pressure  10) 19.05
Monday 12 March, 2012 09:53 AM
 
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