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 ?
- The Lumen is the SI derived unit of Inductance - True or False
- 1 inch equals 2.54 millimeters - True or false
- A taser is an electroshock weapon which uses electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing "neuromuscular incapacitation" - True or False
- The "Birds Nest " stadium was built for the 2008 summer Olympic games and is located in Shanghai - True or False
- In computer engineering - a hardware device or software to protect a computer from viruses, malware, trojans is called an Expansion Card - True or False
- The United States forces M60 AVLB combat engineering vehicle is based on a M60 Patton tank chassis and the tank's gun turret replaced with a bridge launcher integrated into the chassis and mounted on the top - True or False
- Atmospheric Pressure is the pressure at sea level and is typically 14.7 psi - True or False
- Oscillation is the result of excess heat being applied to a crystalline structure - True or False
- The chemical element with the symbol Na is Nitrogen - True or False
- Hot-dip galvanization is the process of coating a metal with a thin zinc layer in order to prevent corrosion - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) False - the Lumen is Luminous Flux 2) False - it is 25.4 millimeters 3) True 4) False - it is located in Beijing 5) False - it is called a Firewall 6) True 7) True 8) False - Oscillation is the repetitive variation, about a central value which may be typically a point of equilibrium 9) False - it is Sodium 10) True
