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WorksheetsEngineering Club
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 16mins
How many tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year?
220 million tons
300 million tons
340 million tons
500 million tons
When did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize for Physics?
1921
1934
1957
1960
How many space shuttle flights have there been since the program started in 1981?
113
102
120
204
Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science?
Marie Curie
Alfred Nobel
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Who has received the most U.S. patents? How many in total?
Thomas Edison,1093
Nikola Tesla, 2067
Elon Musk, 203
What is Thomas Edison famous for?
Phonograph
incandescent light bulb
motion picture camera
telephone
Which is the first company to produce cellular phones?
The Ericsson Company
Nokia
Samsung
HTC
What is the first two video games copyrighted in the US in 1980?
Asteroids
Lunar Lander
Pac Man
Super Mario
When and where was the first laser made
1960, California
1988,Tokyo
1889,Moscow
1977,Berlin
Who coined the phrase “World Wide Web”
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Cole Anderas
What does a Geiger Counter measure?
radiation
light intensity
wave frequency
wave amplitude
What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles
width of the milky way galaxy
1 light year
6 million km
7 trillion km
Created in 1990, what was the name of the first internet search engine?
Pluto
Archie
Jarvis
How many bytes are there in 4 kilobytes of memory?
4,024 bytes
4,032 bytes
4,084 bytes
4,096 bytes
In 2010, the U.S. Air Force used over 1,000 game consoles to build a supercomputer: Which one?
Xbox
PlayStation 3
Nintendo Wii
Xbox 360/
What was the first computer virus released in the wild?
Brain/
WinVir
Creeper
Melissa
Before becoming Google's smartphone OS, Android was being developed for what kind of device?
Cameras
Televisions
In-car entertainment\
An open source game console
What is the best-selling desktop personal computer of all time?
Commodore 64
IBM PC
Apple II
Atari 800/
Who launched the very first website?
CERN
Stanford
Xerox
MIT
What are considered as the building blocks for engineering materials?
ATOM
MOLECULE
NUCLEON
PROTON
What refers to a metal combined with one or more other elements?
METAL
METALOY
ALLOY
GAS
The engineering materials are known as “plastics” are more correctly called:
Plastics
Poly
Copolymers
Polymers
What is the ratio of stress to strain in a material loaded within its elastic range?
Ultimate strength
Allowable Strength
Modulus of Elasticity
Yield strength
What term is used to describe a polymer that has a rubber like properties?
Elastomer
Plastics
Copolymers
Polymers
What are the elements numbers 58 to 71 in the periodic table called?
actinides
Lanthanides
Halogens
Alkali Metals
If atomic mass of Al and O are 26.98 amu and 16 amu respectively, how many grams of Al are there in 431g of Al2O3?
228g
215g
237g
114g
Galvanised steel are steel products coated with
Zinc
Iron
Silicon
Boron
It is the application of fluid mechanics in engineering
Pneumatics
Hydraulics
Electropneumatics
Hydropneumatics
It is the attraction between like molecules:
Adhesion
Reduction
Cohesion
Conduction
