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 ?

The Millau Viaduct, the highest bridge in the world is in which country - a) Brazil b) China c) Japan d) France
What is the name of the engineering tool typically used to measure the outside diameter of tube, bar and similar - a) Dividers b) Outside Calipers c) Gauge Blocks d) Diameter Indicators
What is the capital of Argentina
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is - a) a military attack helicopter b) a multirole jet fighter aircraft c) a surface to air missile d) a tracked armoured fighting vehicle
Which of these Engineering processes would be called "Subtractive Manufacturing" - a) Casting b) Welding c) Machining d) Riveting
What is the name of the coordinate system which specifies points on a plane using a pair of numerical coordinates - a) Cartier b) Cartesian c) Cartridge d) Carters
In mechanical engineering , what name is used to describes machines that transfer energy between a rotor and a fluid - a) Turbidmachinery b) Turbomachinery c) Turgidmachinery d) Terbynemachinery
What is the name of the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other - a) Torsion b) Strain c) Friction d) Tension
Inventor Osborne Reynolds is closely associated with the development of the electric motor - True or False
What is the letter of the Greek alphabet which is typically used as the standard engineering symbol for stress - a) Alpha b) Beta c) Mu d) Sigma

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1) d) France 2) b) Outside Calipers 3) Buenos Aires 4) b) a multirole jet fighter aircraft 5) c) Machining 6) b) Cartesian 7) b) Turbomachinery 8) c) Friction 9) False - Reynolds is associated with Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer 10) d) Sigma

Monday 18 June, 2012 10:04 AM

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