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. In Mechanical Engineering - The negative ratio of transverse to axial strain is called Poisson's Ratio - True or False
2. A support which prevents sideways movement is called - a) Lateral Support  b) Levitational Support  c) Linguistic Support  d) Luminous Support
3. In Mechanical Engineering - The Geneva drive gear mechanism converts a continuous rotary motion into a reciprocating action - True or False
4. A mass of rock which moves around in outer space is called -  a) an Asteroid d)  a Torpedo  c) a Jet Stream  d) a Nebula
5. A manufacturing process which shapes metal by using localized compressive forces (typically with high heat) is called - a) Forging  b) Flashing  c) Fledging  d) Fowling
6. Broaching is a machining process that uses a toothed tool, called a broach, to remove material - True or False
7. In Electrical Engineering - Capacitors are widely used in electronic circuits for blocking direct current while allowing alternating current to pass - True or False
8. In the petroleum industry - the US/Canadian Oil Barrel is defined as 24 US gallons - True or False
9. The Newton is the SI derived unit of Electrical Resistance - True or False
10. In computing - Moore's law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware , the number of transistors on integrated circuits  doubles approximately every two years - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) True  2) a) Lateral Support  3) False - it converts continuous rotary motion into intermittent rotary motion  4) a) an Asteroid  5) a) Forging  6) True  7) True  8) False - one US oil barrel equals 42 US gallons  9) False - it is Force  10) True - the law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore , who described the trend in a 1965 paper