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 ?
- Where would you find a "M9 Armored Combat Earth Mover" combat engineering vehicle - a) The Russian Armed Forces b) The American Armed Forces c) The European Armed Forces d) The Chinese Armed Forces
- In computer engineering - a register in a CPU in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored is called a Motherboard - True to False
- The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is the world's biggest concrete structure - True or False
- In electrical engineering - The term Laser originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation - True or False
- A Bendix drive is a type of mechanism used to capture loop and draw stitches in industrial sewing machines - True or False
- One foot equals 3.05 meters - True or False
- The Farad is the SI derived unit of Power and Radiant Flux - True or False
- Beginning with the letter "L", What name is given to a fastening device that is released by mechanical or electronic input
- What is the highly radioactive chemical element represented by the symbol Ra
- Fillet, butt, plug, bead are all used to specify details of what metal joining process
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ANSWERS
1) b) The American Armed Forces 2) False - a register in a CPU in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored is called an Accumulator 3) False - the world's biggest concrete structure is the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China 4) True 5) False - A Bendix drive is a type of mechanism used in the starter motors of internal combustion engines 6) False - One foot equals 0.305 meters 7) False - The Farad is the SI derived unit of electrical capacitance 8) Lock 9) Radium 10) Welding
