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 Electrical Engineering – NEMA stands for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, an organization based in the U.S. that sets many common standards used in electrical products - True or False
2. In pump terminology - Specific Gravity is the ratio of the weight of a given volume of liquid compared to the weight of mercury - True or False
3. In elementary geometry, the word Perpendicular describes the relationship between two lines which meet at a right angle . - True or False
4. Who was the Roman God of wine
5. In mathematics, what name is given to a polynomial equation of the second degree who's general form is     ax2+bx+c=0
6. Also called a counting frame, what is the more common name for a calculating tool historically used in Asia for performing arithmetic processes
7. A Manometer is an instrument which compares pressures - True or False
8. OEE is a method of measuring and then optimising the efficiency of a machine or a plants performance.  What does OEE stand for
9. In physics, and beginning with the letter C, what name is given to the study and behaviour of very low temperatures which are typically below   －150 °C,  (－238 °F or 123 K)
10. What does  "ZIP" in a ZIP code actually stand for

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1) True  2) False - The ratio of the weight of a given volume of liquid to pure water  3) True  4) Bacchus  5) A Quadratic Equation  6) Abacus  7) True  8) Overall Equipment Effectiveness  9) Cryogenics  10) Zoning Improvement Plan