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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? November 2026lemleonardia99p2026-02-09T10:43:01-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Overengineer Everything—Even Dinner. Put your system design skills to the test with Thanksgiving taken to extremes.

Question 1: A ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) protects against ____________.
- Lightning surges
- Current leakage to ground
- Overvoltage conditions
- High frequency noise

Question 2: Which type of soil is most susceptible to liquefaction?
- Clay
- Loose saturated sand
- Gravel
- Hard clay

Question 3: The dew point temperature is the temperature at which _________.
- All water evaporates
- Air becomes saturated and condensation begins
- Refrigerant boils
- Cooling coil freezes

Question 4: Entropy is a measure of ___________.
- Heat capacity
- Disorder or randomness
- Work output
- Enthalpy

Question 5: A simply supported beam under uniform load has maximum bending moment at ______________.
- Supports
- Midspan
- Quarter span
- Neutral axis

Question 6: The function of a key in a shaft–hub connection is to _______________.
- Reduce vibration
- Transmit torque
- Support axial load
- Seal the joint

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