QUIZ 1 IN BUILDING DESIGN 2 LEC

NAME: ILAGAN, CIANA YEDDA MARIE M. SECTION: 5CE-3 DATE: APRIL 16,2020

TEST I: Write YES if the statement is correct and Write NO if the statement is un correct. Put the answer on
the space provided in CAPITAL letters.

1. __NO____ Any pipe that conveys waste from various fixture other than water closet is called soil pipe.

2. __NO____ Any pipe that conveys waste coming from water closet is called waste pipe.

3. ____YES__ Dead end is the extended portion of a pipe that is closed at one end permitting the
stagnation of water or air therein.

4. ___YES___ Back flow is the flow of water or other liquid mixture or substances into distributing pipes
of a portable supply of water from any source.

5. ___NO___ Vertical pipe is a pipe that conveys liquid waste from fixture that is free of fecal matter.

6. ___YES___ Relief vent its primary function is to provide circulation of air between drainage and vent
systems.

7. __NO____ Vent system is a pipe installed in vertical position or at an angle not more than 45 degrees
with the vertical.

8. ___NO___ Trap seal is a fitting or device so designed as to provide when properly vented a liquid seal
that will prevent the back passage of air without materially affecting the flow of sewage through it.

9. ___YES___ Side vent is a vent connecting to the drain pipe through a fitting at an angle not greater
than 45 degrees or to the vertical.

10. ___YES___ Sanitary sewer is a sewer intended to receive sanitary sewage with or without industrial
wastes and without the admixture of surface water, storm water or drainage.

11. ____NO__ Main sewer is the principal artery of the venting system to which vent branches may be
connected.

12. __YES____ Return bend is an open return bend usually with inside threads, but applied also to 180
degrees bend in pipe.

13. ___YES___ Standpipe is a vertical pipe usually used for the storage of water frequently under pressure.

14. __NO___ Fixture supply is a drain from the trap of a fixture to the junction of that drain with any other
drain-pipe.
15. __YES____ Flood level is a device located inside the tank for the purpose of maintaining water level for
effective flushing of the water closet.

16. __NO____ Horizontal pipe means any pipe or fitting which makes an angle of more than 45 degrees
with the horizontal.

17. __NO____ Branch is the length of soil or waste stack corresponding in general to a storey height from
one floor or storey of a building are connected to the stack.

18. ___YES___ Blind flange is a flange that closes the end of a pipe. There is no opening for the passage of
water.

19. __YES____ Local vent pipe is a pipe on the fixture side of the trap through which vapor or foul air is
removed from a room or fixture.

20. __YES____ Subsoil drain are underground drain pipes that receive sub-surface or seepage water only
and convey it to a place of disposal.

FILL IN THE BLANKS

21. ___PUBLIC SEWER_______is a common sewer directly controlled by public authorities where all
abutters have equal rights of connection.

22. _FLUSH VALVE___________ is a device located at the bottom of the tank for flushing water closets and
similar fixture.

23. _BRANCH VENT__________ is a vent connecting one or more individual vents with a vent stack or
stack vent.

24. _COMMON VENT_________ is a drain from two or three fixture connected to a single trap. Is also
called dual vent.

25. __LATERAL________ in plumbing it is a secondary pipe. In sewage a common sewer to which no other
common sewer is tributary. It receives sewage only from building sewer.

26. __CONTINUOUS VENT_______ is a vertical vent that is continuation of the drain to which the vent
connects.

27. _CIRCUIT CENT___________ is a branch vent that serves two or more traps and extends from the front
of the last fixture connection of a horizontal branch to the vent stack.

28. _FIXTURE UNITS__________ is a quantity in terms of which the load producing effects on the plumbing
system of different kinds of plumbing fixtures are expressed on some arbitrarily chosen scale.
29. 29._PLUMBING FIXTURES__ are installed receptacle, devices, or appliances which are supplied with
water, or which receives or discharges liquid or liquid borne waste, with or without discharge into
drainage system which maybe directly or indirectly connected

MULTIPLE CHOICES (write the answers on the space provided)

30. __A___ Is fixture combining one sink and tray or a two or three compartment sin or tray in one event.

A.) combination fixtures B.) Continuous vent C.) Circuit vent

31. __L___ Is the slope or fall of pipe in reference to a fraction of an inch per foot length of pipe.

K.) Group Vent L.) Grade M.) Invert

32. B sometimes called individual vent. It is that part of the vent pipeline which connects directly with
an individual waste or group of wastes underneath or back of the fixture and extended either to the
main vent pipe.

                B.) Re-vent pipe                      C.) Relief Vent        D.) Main Vent

33. E Is pipe installed in a vertical position or at an angle of not more than 45 degrees with the vertical.

                  C.) Waste pipe                           D.) Vent Stack              E.) Vertical Pipe

34. R A pit or receptacle at a low point to which the liquid waste are drained.
                R.) Sump                                     S.) Trap                T.) Tap Seal

35. _T__ Is plugging an opening with oakum lead or other materials, that are pounded into the place or
opening.

            R.) Blow off                              S.) Dry Vent                    T.) Calking