Engineering Trivia Quiz - July 23 2012
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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 ?
- Trees which loose their leaves seasonally are called - a) Deciduous b) Dushanbe c) Desiccant d) Discharge
- What generic name is given to a mechanism which controls the flow of a fluid by constriction or obstruction. - a) Thruster b) Throttle c) Tyler d) Tiller
- The Delorean sports car was originally manufactured in which country - a) England b) Northern Ireland c) USA d) Brazil
- The Geissler Tube is a forerunner of the common garden hose pipe - True or False
- Hans Renold is generally credited with inventing the roller chain in 1880, however, Leonardo da Vinci produced drawings in the 16th century which appear to show a chain with a roller bearing - True or False
- A desiccant is a hygroscopic substance that induces a state of dryness in its local vicinity in a sealed container. - True or False
- What is the name of the electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field which was invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1936 - a) Grass Switch b) Reed Switch c) Twig Switch d) Fern Switch
- Is the chemical process of distillation a chemical reaction - Yes or No
- Kaolinite, montmorillonite -smectite, illite, and chlorite are the four main groups of which mineral - a) Clay b) Coal c) Diamond d) Potash
- In Roman Numerals, "CM" equals what number - a) 900 b) 1100 c) 400 d) 600
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1) a) Deciduous 2) b) Throttle 3) b) Northern Ireland 4) False - The Geissler Tube was instrumental in the development of many products which use vacuum and electron discharge principles e.g. neon lighting 5) True 6) True 7) b) Reed Switch 8) No 9) a) Clay 10) a) 900
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