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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. A natural object such as a moon which rotates around a planet is also known as a Satellite - True or False
  2. In computer terminology ADSL stands for "All Direct Storage Line" - True or False
  3. The Watt is the SI derived unit of Power and Radiant Flux - True or False
  4. The Hypotenuse is the 90 degree angle in a right angle triangle - True or False
  5. Can atmospheric gases such as nitrogen and oxygen dissolve in water - Yes or No
  6. A Meteorologist is a scientist who studies astrological bodies in space - True or False
  7. Sulphuric Acid has the the molecular formula H2SO4 - True or False
  8. A simple device with a wide mouth and a narrow stem which is typically used to transfer liquid  or fine-grained substances into apertures of a smaller area is called a Fennel - True or False
  9. A Trebuchet is a type of dagger which was commonly used by French noblemen for personal protection- True or False
  10. Tata Motors Limited is a multinational automotive company whose products include passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses, construction equipment and military vehicles.  Tata is headquartered in which country - a) Thailand  b) India  c) Pakistan  d) Indonesia


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Category: Engineering Trivia

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. What name is given to the branch of Mechanical Engineering which studies interacting surfaces in relative motion including the study and application of the principles of friction , lubrication  and wear - a) Trobox  b) Tribology  c) Trobriand  d) Trebuchet
  2. What is the name of the hydrocarbon liquid that is used as a reference standard to describe the tendency of gasoline, petrol, or benzin fuels to self ignite during compression prior to the desired position of the piston in the cylinder as appropriate for valve and ignition timing - a) Octane  b) Heptane  c) Nonane  d) Methane
  3. What is the internal angle of each vertex of a regular octagon
  4. What name is given to a thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature is produced. Typically it is used for hardening, burning or drying materials. - a) Hearth  b) Flue  c) Mantle  d) Kiln
  5. Self adjusting brakes in automobiles where pioneered by Studebaker - True or False
  6. In process control engineering - HMI stands for Home of Machine Interface - True or False
  7. The Mariana Trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands is the deepest known point on earth - True or False
  8. In computer terminology - "the Access Point" - is the on/off switch of a computer terminal - True or False
  9. Typically found on firearms such as rifles, "Telescopic Sights" are based on an optical refracting telescope - True or False
  10. The Siemens is the SI  derived unit of Capacitance - True or False


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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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Category: Engineering Trivia

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. From what company's plant did toxic gas escape in Bhopal, with devastating results
  2. What very useful device was added to PCs for the first time in a new version of the Apple, launched in 1983
  3. Thomas Edison averaged one patent for every a) three  b) six  or c) nine - weeks of his life
  4. What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592
  5. What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid
  6. What does LED stand for in electronics
  7. The first man made space satellite, Sputnik was launched in which year - 1955, 1956,  or 1957
  8. A Belleville washer is a type of Helical Spring - True or False
  9. 1 meter = 3.28 ft = 39.27 in - True or False

  10. The Indian Motorcycle was  manufactured  in which country

Some say the cup is half empty, while others say it is half full.

However, in my opinion both are wrong.

The real problem is the cup is too big.


From the book "Foundation design", by Coduto, Donald P.

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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. What does the Mohs scale, which goes from 1 to 9, measure
  2. Where in the home would you find a magnetron
  3. What is an Eolic Power Station powered by
  4. In mathematics, the ratio of circumference to diameter of any circle is defined by which symbol
  5. Who invented the Ferris Wheel
  6. Sportster, Dyna and Softail are models of which motorcycle
  7. The name Helvetia survives as an official name of which European country
  8. What do you call an angle of more than 90º
  9. A monkey wrench is so called because it can be (colloquially) used by any "monkey" true or false
  10. What is the chemical symbol for lead

quotation of the week :-
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson


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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. In the SI system, the Pascal is a unit of Pressure/Stress - True or False
  2. Salt is the common name for the naturally occurring form of calcium carbonate - True or False
  3. The lower case Greek letter Omega is used to represent wavelength - True or False
  4. What does the H stand for in pH, the chemical measure of acidity
  5. Which Scandinavian king might you have in your mobile phone
  6. Which metal is obtained from the ore bauxite
  7. What does ROM stand for in computer terminology
  8. Is the state of the Earth’s "Outer Core" solid or molten
  9. Hertz are used to measure what
  10. Olfaction is another name for which if the five senses


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Firstly -let me say that I have nothing against HR people “per se”  but whoever put this gag together likes to use the HR department as the fall guy (girl)
So here goes ….......

Once upon a time three HR people were walking through the woods and suddenly they were confronted by a huge, wild river – they were completely lost and could not go back the way they came, so they had to cross the river.

But how would they manage to get across such a raging torrent of water?

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Category: Engineering Trivia

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. Hiroshima was the first city to be levelled by a plutonium-based atomic bomb - True or False
  2. What is the artificial sweetener Saccharin derived from - a) Seaweed  b) Corn  c) Coal Tar  d) Palm Oil
  3. What is the only metal that's not a solid at room temperature
  4. Art Fry invented the 3M “Post It” notes after the scraps of paper he used to mark tunes in his hymnbook kept falling out - True or False
  5. The Cotton Candy (also called fairy floss, candy floss) machine was invented by confectioner John C.Wharton and William James Morrison.  What was the profession of William James Morrison - a) Dentist  b) Surgeon  c) Pediatrist  d) Undertaker
  6. What gas is released into the bloodstream when a diver suffers from the bends - a) Oxygen  b) Nitrogen  c) Hydrogen  d) Carbon Dioxide
  7. The name KODAK was made up by George Eastman in 1888 because it was easy to memorize, pronounce, and spell - True or False
  8. Alexander Cummings was issued the first patent for a flush toilet in which century - a) 17th  b) 18th c) 19th  d) 20th
  9. The output of a system which depends not only its current input, but also its history of past inputs is called - a) Hysterectomy  b) Hysteria  c) Hysterical  d) Hysteresis
  10. The worlds first successful heart transplant was performed in which country - a) USA  b) Russia  c) France  d) South Africa


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Eleven people were dangling below a helicopter on a rope. (I'm not sure how they got there – but stay with me)
There were ten HR people and one Engineer. 

The engineer performed a quick calculation and determined that the rope was strong enough to hold 10 people – NOT 11.
Since the rope was not strong enough to hold all of the eleven people, they decided that one of them should to let go and sacrifice themselves to save the other 10 people.
After much debate they could not decide who should be the volunteer, so finally the Engineer said that he would sacrifice himself and let go of the rope .
But before he did , he wanted to say a few words -
He gave a speech, explaining that Engineers are used to doing everything for the company, going above and beyond the required workload. They forsake their family, don’t claim all of their expenses and do a lot of overtime without reward or recognition and it is only right that he should sacrifice himself yet again.

When he finished his deeply moving speech all the HR people began to clap ….....................



Moral: Don't hit the Panic Button until all options have been considered

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Category: Engineering Trivia

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. On Jan.26, 2015 -  asteroid 2004 BL86 will fly “relatively” close to Earth (745,000 miles) - The prefix 2004 in the name signifies that the asteroid was was first discovered in the year 2004 - True or False
  2. The Spruce Goose was - a) a Dirigible  b) a Glider  c) a Sea Plane   d) a Helicopter
  3. The numeral system used extensively in computing which has 16 digits :  0-9, A-F is called Hexadecimal - True or False
  4. The first practical portable electric vacuum cleaner was invented by The Hoover Company - True or False
  5. What is the common mineral whose chemical formula is NaC1
  6. The Watt is the unit of electrical power equal to one joule per second - True or False
  7. Construction Workers Hard Hats where first used on the Hoover Dam project in in 1933 - True or False
  8. In fluid mechanics , the Reynolds number is used to help predict similar flow patterns in different fluid flow situations.  The Reynolds number is measured in cubic meters per second - True or False
  9. 1 cubic foot of fresh water weighs 6.24 lb - True or False
  10. An Astrolabe is an instrument used to determine the altitude of objects in the sky such as the sun or stars - True or False


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