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Engineering Club

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year?

a)

220 million tons

b)

300 million tons

c)

340 million tons

d)

500 million tons

2.

When did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize for Physics?

a)

1921

b)

1934

c)

1957

d)

1960

3.

How many space shuttle flights have there been since the program started in 1981?

a)

113

b)

102

c)

120

d)

204

4.

Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Alfred Nobel

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Albert Einstein

5.

Who has received the most U.S. patents? How many in total?

a)

Thomas Edison,1093

b)

Nikola Tesla, 2067

c)

Elon Musk, 203

6.

What is Thomas Edison famous for?

a)

Phonograph

b)

incandescent light bulb

c)

motion picture camera

d)

telephone

7.

Which is the first company to produce cellular phones?

a)

The Ericsson Company

b)

Nokia

c)

Samsung

d)

HTC

8.

What is the first two video games copyrighted in the US in 1980?

a)

Asteroids

b)

Lunar Lander

c)

Pac Man

d)

Super Mario

9.

When and where was the first laser made

a)

1960, California

b)

1988,Tokyo

c)

1889,Moscow

d)

1977,Berlin

10.

Who coined the phrase “World Wide Web”

a)

Tim Berners-Lee

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Bill Gates

d)

Cole Anderas

11.

What does a Geiger Counter measure?

a)

radiation

b)

light intensity

c)

wave frequency

d)

wave amplitude

12.

What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles

a)

width of the milky way galaxy

b)

1 light year

c)

6 million km

d)

7 trillion km

13.

Created in 1990, what was the name of the first internet search engine?

a)

Pluto

b)

Google

c)

Archie

d)

Jarvis

14.

How many bytes are there in 4 kilobytes of memory?

a)

4,024 bytes

b)

4,032 bytes

c)

4,084 bytes

d)

4,096 bytes

15.

In 2010, the U.S. Air Force used over 1,000 game consoles to build a supercomputer: Which one?

a)

Xbox

b)

PlayStation 3

c)

Nintendo Wii

d)

Xbox 360/

16.

What was the first computer virus released in the wild?

a)

Brain/

b)

WinVir

c)

Creeper

d)

Melissa

17.

Before becoming Google's smartphone OS, Android was being developed for what kind of device?

a)

Cameras

b)

Televisions

c)

In-car entertainment\

d)

An open source game console


18.

What is the best-selling desktop personal computer of all time?

a)

Commodore 64

b)

IBM PC

c)

Apple II

d)

Atari 800/


19.

Who launched the very first website?

a)

CERN

b)

Stanford

c)

Xerox

d)

MIT

20.

What are considered as the building blocks for engineering materials?

a)

ATOM

b)

MOLECULE

c)

NUCLEON

d)

PROTON

21.

What refers to a metal combined with one or more other elements?

a)

METAL

b)

METALOY

c)

ALLOY

d)

GAS

22.

The engineering materials are known as “plastics” are more correctly called:

a)

Plastics

b)

Poly

c)

Copolymers

d)

Polymers


23.

What is the ratio of stress to strain in a material loaded within its elastic range?

a)

Ultimate strength

b)

Allowable Strength

c)

Modulus of Elasticity

d)

Yield strength

24.

What term is used to describe a polymer that has a rubber like properties?

a)

Elastomer

b)

Plastics

c)

Copolymers

d)

Polymers

25.

What are the elements numbers 58 to 71 in the periodic table called?

a)

actinides

b)

Lanthanides

c)

Halogens

d)

Alkali Metals


26.

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?

a)

228g

b)

215g

c)

237g

d)

114g

27.

Galvanised steel are steel products coated with

a)

Zinc

b)

Iron

c)

Silicon

d)

Boron

28.

It is the application of fluid mechanics in engineering

a)

Pneumatics

b)

Hydraulics

c)

Electropneumatics

d)

Hydropneumatics

29.

It is the attraction between like molecules:

a)

Adhesion

b)

Reduction

c)

Cohesion

d)

Conduction