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 ?

1. In computer terminology - a Batch File is a type of script that contains a list of commands - True or False
2. There are 36,630 inches in a mile - True or False
3. "Oil Barrel" is a unit of measurement used in the petroleum industry to measure oil volumes.  The practice originated in the Pennsylvania oil fields in the 1860's.  The original barrels used to measure the oil where discarded "salted pork" barrels - True or False
4. Sodium carbonate is also called soda ash - True or False
5. A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely - True or False
6. The Euro Tunnel between England and France is the second longest stretch of underwater tunnel in the world - True or False
7. Chess was invented in which country a) India  b) Abyssinia   c) Greece  d) Egypt
8. The coefficient of friction is often symbolised by the Greek letter Sigma - True or False
9. In the NATO phonetic alphabet : I = Inside - True or False
10. The abbreviation - DIN - is the French national organisation for standardisation and is the French ISO member body - True or False

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ANSWERS
1) True  2) False - There are 63,360 inches in a mile  3) False - the original barrels where discarded whiskey barrels  4) True  5) True  6) False - it is the longest - it is 31.35 miles long in total and 23.5 miles  is underwater  7) a) India - The original word for “chess” is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”—which were most likely elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers  8) False - The coefficient of friction is often symbolised by the Greek letter Mu
  9) False - I = India  10) False - DIN stands for Deutsches Institut fur Normung e.V. - or in English - German Institute for Standardisation