Engineering Trivia Quiz - July 30, 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 ?
- The Three Gorges Dam is on which river
- In Electrical Engineering what does emf stand for
- When investigating the transfer of entities such as heat, mass and fluid dynamics, what name is used to define the rate of flow of a property per unit area - a) Flux b) Flax c) Fango d) Fiji
- A vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water is called - a) Android b) Amphibious c) Ampharos d) Amphenol
- In Roman Numerals, "C" equals what number - a) 50 b) 100 c) 500 d) 1000
- The ratio 22/7 is commonly used to denote the value of the mathematical constant "Pi" which is an "irrational" number - this is an exact ratio of the value of Pi - True or False
- An internal combustion engine typically uses a four stroke combustion cycle - this is also called an Otto Cycle - True or False
- What is the deepest lake in the world - a) Lake Tanganyika (Africa) b) Lake Ontario (U.S.-Canada) c) Lake Baikal (Russia) d) Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela)
- Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities of components in a boiling liquid mixture - True or False
- Roller chain is a type of chain drive commonly used for transmission of mechanical power on many kinds of domestic, industrial and agricultural machinery - True or False
Hold down the left mouse button and drag below - to reveal the answer
1) Yangtze 2) electromotive force 3) a) Flux 4) b) Amphibious 5) b) 100 6) False - an irrational number cannot be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers 7) True 8) c) Lake Baikal (Russia) 9) True 10) True
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