UCD EngSoc Quiz 02/11/2020

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Engaging Engineering Quiz

Test your knowledge of engineering concepts, history, and curiosities with our comprehensive quiz. Featuring a range of intriguing questions that challenge your understanding of the world of science and technology, this quiz is perfect for engineering enthusiasts.

Join us to explore:

The principles of electricity
Famous engineering feats
Innovative technologies

26 Questions6 MinutesCreated by CalculatingEngineer42

Direct current (DC) is defined as

Electrical current that reverses direction periodically

Electrical current that flow in one direction only

Electrical current that flow in negative cycles only

Electrical current that flow in positive cycles only

Whats the heaviest object in the known universe?

The Sun

A neutron Star

Any Black Hole

The guilt I carry that I could have chosen Business and have 4hour weeks, with the only additional work I have to do is watch “the Wolf of Wall Street” once a week.

The Mars Climate Orbiter space probe was designed to orbit Mars to study its weather but crashed into the planet. What was the cause of the failure of the mission?

A solar flare destroyed the electronics in flight

Confusion between English and metric units in thruster subsystem

Its fuel tank exploded as the thruster ignited

Mission control lost communication with the probe

What ancient Greek mathematician and engineer is credited with the boast "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth" after investigating the principles of levers?

Hippocrates

Sophocles

Archimedes

Phidias

Does the Value of gravity vary depending on where you are on the Planet, and if so, where is it greater?

Greater? No, it’s constant no matter where you are

Yes, and it’s greatest at the Poles

Yes, and it’s greatest at the Equator

Yes and it’s greater at the top of Mt Everest

How long does it take light to travel from the Sun to the surface of the Earth if the distance between them is about 150 million km?

More than 3 hours

About 8 minutes

About 26 minutes

A bit less than a minute

Best Engineering stream?

Mechanical (the Engineering Degree that just makes sure you go on to be accountants)

Electrical/Electronic (Essentially Computer Science, you can learn that through 4 hour long Youtube videos)

Civil Eng (literally just cement and sandcastle building)

Chemical and BioProcess (Calm down Walter White)

BioMedical (didn’t get into Medicine?)

Structural and Architecture Eng (== Complicated Minecraft)

In terms of engineering software, what does CAD stand for?

Coronary Artery Disease

Computer Abetted Design

Computer Apprenticeship in Design

Computer Aided Design

Which country has the largest dam?

China with the Three Gorges Dam

The USA with the Fort Peck Dam

Pakistan with the Tarbela Dam

In an engineering context, what could the term mangonel describe?

A counterweight driven Catapult

A bridge held up exclusively by the pressure exerted by each component on the others

A type of piston engine found in Formula 1 cars

What was the name of the bridge that collapsed in the US because engineers overlooked the effects of wind on its structural integrity?

San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

St. George Island Viaduct

Thompson Bridge

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Best Sounds to Fall Asleep/Scroll tiktok to:

Lofi Beats

10 hours loop of calming forest noises

Vlads the first year physics lectures

What kind of bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco?

Beam Bridge

Arch Bridge

Suspension Bridge

Cable Stayed Bridge

In electricity, voltage has units of volts, but what are the units of power and current respectively ?

Ampere and Watt

Watt and Ampere

Ohm and Ampere

Watt and Ohm

The Panama Canal joins which two water bodies?

Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Mediterranean and Red Seas

Mediterranean and Black Seas

What was the purpose of the Eiffel Tower and when was it built?

In 1789, acting as an electric pylon for the newly built electrical grid in Paris

In 1889, acting as an electric pylon for the newly built electrical grid in Paris

In 1889, as a paid public astronomy chamber at the top

In 1889, to make the French look cooler than other countries for the World Fair that year.

Is there ever a reason why you shouldn’t make fun of a friend who doesn’t study engineering?

Yes, all courses are important and worthwhile, and demand so much work regardless.

No, I'm not studying 60 hours a week, am sleep deprived and have a 2.5 GPA to not make fun of arts and humanities students.

What does a Geiger Counter measure?

The amount of Parts Per Million (carbon in the air)

The current in amps in a circuit (synonym for Ammeter

The amount of radiation in the atmosphere around it

The acidity or PH value of a liquid

What does the term LASER stand for?

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

Light amplification by stimulated emission of refraction

Light amplification by stimulated emission of reflection

Which of the following is one of the fears engineers have about excessively changing our foods through manipulation?

Causing greater world hunger

Superweeds that will be immune to all pesticides

New viruses without any vaccines or cures

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