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 !

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What is the inorganic chemical compound with the chemical symbol WC. It is widely used for industrial machine tools
A substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance is called - a) Colloidal b) Dynamic b) Thixoptropic d) Newtonion
In Electrical Engineering, what name is given to a two-terminal electronic component with asymmetric transfer characteristic , with low resistance to current flow in one direction, and high resistance in the other - a) Biode b) Triode c) Valve d) Diode
Ceramic knives are not seen by conventional metal detectors - True or False
In Roman numerals, what does LXXXVI equal a) 56 b) 66 c) 76 d) 86
Reaumer” is a thermodynamic temperature scale named by the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine - True or False
Faraday's law of induction is a basic law of Mechanical Strain Energy - True or False
What name is given to a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock , a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite - a) Caulk b) Chalk c) Cork d) Cord
Petrobras is a semi-public Brazilian multinational energy corporation headquartered in city - a) Rio de Janeiro b) Brasilia c) Sao Paulo d) Boa Vista
An electrical device that changes direct current to alternating current is called - a) a Reverberator b) a Diverter c) an Inverter d) an Alternator

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1) Tungsten Carbide 2) a) Colloidal 3) d) Diode 4) True 5) d) 86 6) False - “Rankine” is the name of the temperature scale 7) False it is a basic law of electromagnetism 8) b) Chalk 9) a) Rio de Janeiro 10) c) an Inverter

Monday 21 May, 2012 12:40 AM

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