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 ?
- In Fluid Mechanics, Laminar flow occurs at High or Low Reynolds numbers ?
- The operating principle of a Centrifuge is also known as a Cardan Suspension - True or False
- A column of water 1" sq and 12 inches long weighs - a) 3.434 lb b) 2.434 lb c) 1.434 lb d) 0.434 lb
- The "mouse" was first added to a PC by Microsoft - True or False
- An aerosol is a colloidal system consisting of very finely divided liquid or solid particles dispersed in and surrounded by a gas - True or False
- Which former Russian president had a degree in Civil Engineering (1955 - Ural Kirov Polytechnic) - a) Boris Yeltsin b) Nita Khrushchev c) Mikhail Gorbachev d) Leonid Brezhnev
- Thomas Jefferson is famous for commissioning bifocal glasses - True or False
- What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios? - a) the transistor b) the diode c) the battery d) the semi conductor
- Leonardo da Vinci invented the Hygrometer to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco - True or False
- Litmus turns Blue when dipped into acid - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) Low 2) False - The operating principle of a Gimbal is also known as a Cardan Suspension 3) d) 0.434 lb 4) False - Apple added the first mouse in 1983 5) True 6) a) Boris Yeltsin 7) False - Benjamin Franklin commissioned bifocal glasses 8) a) the transistor 9) True 10) False - Litmus turns Pink when dipped in acid
