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The Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging selection of General Engineering questions and answers 
sometimes you just don't know what you don't know, but you're sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !

Challenge your colleagues - can they answer more than you ?

1. Litmus turns Blue when dipped into acid - True or False
2. Newton's second law of motion states that :  f = ma  (force = mass x acceleration ) - True or False
3. Leonardo da Vinci invented the Hygrometer to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco - True or False
4. Dr Scholl held over 300 patents for Hearing Improvement - True or False
5. What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios - a) the transistor  b) the diode  c) the battery  d) the semi conductor
6. Galileo invented the thermometer - True or False
7. James Spengler invented what consumer product - a) Food Processor  b) Microwave Oven  c) Vacuum Cleaner  d) Remote TV Controller
8. The General Electric Company was founded by Albert Einstein - True
9. False - Benjamin Franklin commissioned bifocal glasses
10. In computer engineering  - a small, but fast memory that transparently improves the performance of a larger, but slower memory or storage device is called - Cache - True or False

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