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 ?
- A Thermoplastic becomes pliable or moldable above a specific temperature and never returns to a solid state upon cooling - True or False
- Visual Acuity is defined as acuteness or clearness of vision - True or False
- In Electrical Engineering the Measure of frequency equaling one cycle per second is called Resonance - True or False
- A howitzer is a type of artillery characterized by - a) it's long barrel b) it's short barrel c) it's wide barrel d) it's narrow barrel
- "Moment of Force" is derived from force divided by area - true or false
- 1 US gallon = how many liters
- Who is generally considered to have produced the first commercially successful typewriter - a - Remington b) IBM c) Imperial Typewriters d) Olivetti
- What is the currency of Mexico
- What name is given to a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag - a) Paracanopy b) Parachute c) Parasail d) Paradigm
- Developed at Du Pont in 1956, para-aramid synthetic fibre has many applications including body armour and racing sails. What is it more commonly known as
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ANSWERS
1) False - A Thermoplastic does return to a solid state upon cooling 2) True 3) False - The measure of frequency equaling one cycle per second is Hertz 4) b) it's short barrel 5) false - force x distance 6) 3.785 7) a) Remington 8) Peso 9) b) Parachute 10) Kevlar
