Electrician Trivia Game

This is an electrician trivia game which is available as a download you can send to the electrician in your family or play live with your friends and fellow tavern patrons in your local pub trivia night.

Download the MS PowerPoint presentation (18.3 mb) here: Electrician Trivia

Play our trivia game here,

Below are some of the more interesting questions and some answers.  Let’s look at Question #1.

Who was the first electrician?

The first electrician, who almost certainly never considered himself part of the profession, was Michael Faraday.  Known to history as the father of electricity, Faraday was an English scientist whose work advanced our understanding of many different aspects of science.  On August 29th 1831, he discovered the laws of electromagnetism, and his inventions paved the way for the first electric motors.

Questions #2

What do the anagrams AC and DC mean to an electrician?

AC is the shorthand for Alternating Current, while DC stands for Direct Current.  We may have to change this question to be more singular, and not both AC and DC as the automated game requires a short answer.  The  answer plate should have more explanations about each format: two electrical methodologies and each have their own advantages and disadvantages. There was some debate between 1905 – 1912 over which would be the best way to serve electricity in a nationwide electrical grid.

Question #3

Name the engineer who partnered with George Westinghouse to champion Alternating Current?

Question #4

What is the voltage of a Duracell Size-D battery?

Question #6

What do we call the electrical component used to control the opening and closing of a circuit?

Below is my personal favourite question and it’s very difficult.  We stumbled upon this factoid while reading about Thomas Edison and the development of the lightbulb.

Everyone knows Edison invented the lightbulb, but few people know that his filaments were not made of tungsten.