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, Turbulent Flow occurs at High or Low Reynolds numbers ?
- 1 cubic meter = 10,000 litres - True or False
- What is the value of pi to 5 places of decimal
- Beginning with the letter "T", what is a common name for Over Centre Clamps or Draw Latches
- Which company developed the Betamax home videocassette tape recording format which was released in 1975
- Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite was launched into space by the Soviet Union in what year - a) 1952 b) 1957 c) 1960 d) 1962
- In Chemical Engineering, Colloidal is the name is given to the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by individual particles or suspended solids - True or False
- Which of these Engineering processes would be called Subtractive Manufacturing - a) Casting b) Welding c) Machining d) Riveting
- What is the name of the co ordinate system which specifies points on a plane using a pair of numerical coordinates - a) Cartier b) Cartesian c) Cartridge d) Carters
- What is the distilled alcoholic beverage made from grain mash whose name is derived from a Gaelic word which means "water of life"
and a quotation -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are
small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ANSWERS
1) High 2) False - 1 cubic meter = 1,000 litres 3) 3.14159 4) Toggle Clamps 5) Sony 6) b) 1957 7) False - Turbidity is the name is given to the cloudiness of s fluid 8) c) Machining 9) b) Cartesian 10) Whisky
