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 ?
- What name is given to the branch of Mechanical Engineering which studies interacting surfaces in relative motion including the study and application of the principles of friction , lubrication and wear - a) Trobox b) Tribology c) Trobriand d) Trebuchet
- What is the name of the hydrocarbon liquid that is used as a reference standard to describe the tendency of gasoline, petrol, or benzin fuels to self ignite during compression prior to the desired position of the piston in the cylinder as appropriate for valve and ignition timing - a) Octane b) Heptane c) Nonane d) Methane
- What is the internal angle of each vertex of a regular octagon
- What name is given to a thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature is produced. Typically it is used for hardening, burning or drying materials. - a) Hearth b) Flue c) Mantle d) Kiln
- Self adjusting brakes in automobiles where pioneered by Studebaker - True or False
- In process control engineering - HMI stands for Home of Machine Interface - True or False
- The Mariana Trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands is the deepest known point on earth - True or False
- In computer terminology - "the Access Point" - is the on/off switch of a computer terminal - True or False
- Typically found on firearms such as rifles, "Telescopic Sights" are based on an optical refracting telescope - True or False
- The Siemens is the SI derived unit of Capacitance - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) b) Tribology 2) a) Octane 3) 135 degrees 4) d) Kiln 5) True 6) False - HMI stands for Human Machine Interface 7) True 8) False - the Access Point is a device, such as a wireless router , that allows wireless devices to connect to a network 9) True 10) False - the Siemens is the unit of Electric Conductance
