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 !

challenge your colleagues - can they answer more than you ?

What name is given to an electro mechanical machine that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by PLC control - a) Personbot b) Roblox c) Manbot d) Robot
The Mobius Band is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component . - True or False
What is the currency of Argentina
V Belt drives where invented in 1917 by - a) John Gates b) John Fenner c) John Fence c) John Doors
The word Hermetic, used to describe an airtight seal was created by the Heinz food company who first developed air tight sealed food packaging - True or False
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines - true or false
What name is given to a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion - a) Geneva Drive b) Monaco Drive c) Paris Drive d) Vienna Drive
In electrical engineering - what does emf stand for
Threaded pipes used in plumbing or piping installations for the delivery of gases or fluids under pressure never have a threaded section that is tapered - True or False
60 degrees Fahrenheit = approx 16 degrees Centigrade - True or False

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1) d) Robot 2) True 3) Peso 4) a) John Gates 5) False - The word hermetic comes from the name of the Greek god Hermes 6) True 7) a) Geneva Drive 8) electromotive force 9) False - Tapered threads are commonly used for these applications 10) True

Monday 16 April, 2012 08:51 AM

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