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 !

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1. The Fischer–Tropsch process is a collection of chemical reactions that convert a mixture of carbon monoxide  and hydrogen  into liquid hydrocarbons  - True or False
2. The  Periodic Table of elements which is used by chemical engineers was first created in 1865 by Sir Isaac Newton - True or False
3. NASA’s “New Horizons” spacecraft is currently within striking distance of the planet Pluto.  New Horizons has travelled approximately 3 billion miles and was launched in which year - a) 2003  b) 2004  c) 2005  d) 2006
4. The majority of wooden baseball bats manufactured today are made from Hickory - True or False
5. Caster, Camber and Toe are all automotive terms associated with setting up valve timing in an engine - True or False
6. Mount McKinley is the highest mountain in the United States - True or False
7. A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor  capable of generating less fissile material  than it consumes  - True or False
8. What is the transuranic radioactive chemical element with the chemical symbol Pu - a) Hydrogen  b) Zirconium  c) Strontium  d) Plutonium
9. Sand, Shell, Plaster, Investment, Die, Centrifugal are all types of what metal forming process - a) Casting  b) Welding  c) Machining  d) Stamping
10. The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, known unofficially as the Big Dig was a civil engineering project in which US city - a) Boston  b) New York  c) Chicago  d) San Francisco

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ANSWERS

1) True  2) False - Dmitri Mendeleev was the first scientist to create a periodic table of the elements  3) d) 2006 - January 19  4) False - The majority of wooden baseball bats are made from northern white ash  5) False - Caster, Camber and Toe are all automotive terms associated with Wheel Alignment on an automobile  6) True  7) False - it is capable of creating more fissile material than it consumes  8) d) Plutonium  9) a) Casting  10) a) Boston