NMI around the world
Hydraulic-Electronic Analogies
Potpourri
Cocktail Procedures
Applied Science
What am I Calibrating?
100
NIST: Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Pronoun
What is the United States of America?
100
Electronics Equivalent to Water Flow
What is current?
100
Ten 100 Gigabyte hard drives would equal one of these.
What is one Terabyte?
100
Tequila, Triple sec, and Lime juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass
What is a Margarita?
100
There are this many cubic millimeters in 1 cubic centimeter.
What is 1000?
100
Step, Deth, Inside, Outside
Caliper
200
NPL. Transmille's traceability is established through in this European collection of countries.
What is the United Kingdom?
200
Electronics equivalent to Pressure
What is Voltage?
200
This branch of the United States Armed Forces no longer reports to the Department of Transportation.
What is the United States Coast Guard?
(they now report to the Department of Homeland Security)
200
Orange Juice and Champagne
What is a Mimosa?
200
This food, rich in potassium, is a known source of radioactivity.
What is a banana?
200
Voltage, Current, Diode, Capacitance, Resistance, Continuity
300
Hellenic Institute of Metrology. I heard they serve baklava in the main café.
What is Greece?
300
Electronics equivalent to a check valve
What is a diode?
300
When a hydrogen internal combustion engine is running it produces this as exhaust.
What is water?
300
Seagram's Seven Crown and 7 Up
What is a 7 and 7?
300
How many moles are in 60 grams of Carbon-12.
What is 5 moles?
300
Major Diameter, Pitch Diameter, Modified Root Radius (extra credit)
What is a UNJ Thread or Thread Plug?
400
CENAM. Holy Elote! There is no confusion at this NMI!
What is Mexico?
400
Electronics equivalent to an in-line rubber diaphragm.
What is the capacitor?
400
WWII ended when Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard this US battleship named after a Midwestern state.
What is Missouri?
400
white rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint.
What is Mojito?
400
This visible spectrum color has the shortest wavelength.
What is violet/purple?
400
Steinhart-hart Coefficients
What is the Thermistor?
500
KRISS. Main Website says, "한국어/조선말". The ASTM 5985 Gangnam-Style Method is not yet recognized by the BIPM.
What is Republic of Korea (South Korea)?
500
Water Wheel Mill
What is an Inductor?
500
In a match held in 1972, American Bobby Fisher beat Soviet Boris Spassky playing this game.
What is chess?
500
Rum, Coconut Cream or Coconut milk, and Pineapple juice.
What is a Piña colada?
500
Electric charge that accumulates in solid materials in response to applied mechanical stress
What is piezoelectricity?
500
ASTM D2240
What is the Durometer?