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. The Hertz is the SI derived unit of Frequency - True or False
2. The effect of acceleration which is felt as weight is called G-force - The G stands for a) Graded  b) Granular   c) Grabbed  d) Gravitational
3. The logarithm of a number is the exponent by which another fixed value, the base , must be raised to produce that number - True or False
4. The amount of energy stored in a flywheel is proportional to the cube of its rotational speed . - True or False
5. 1 yard equals 1.917 metres - true or false
6. The Bendix drive which is used in automotive starter motors derived its name from the town of Bendix in Kansas, USA - True or False
7. The LaSalle automobile was produced by Chrysler from 1927 to 1940 - True or False
8. Silver Oxide is typically used to provide the coating for galvanizing - True or False
9. In computer engineering CPU stands for - Crash Prevention Unit - True or False
10. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit is known as a British Thermal Unit (BTU) - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) True  2) d) Gravitational  3) True  4) False - it is proportional to the square of its rotational speed  5) False - it is 0.914 m  6) False - it was from it's inventor - Vincent Hugo Bendix  7) False - it was General Motor  8) False - it is Zinc  9) False - it is Central Processing Unit  10) True