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 Electrical Engineering what instrument displays the waveform of a signal - a) Distortionmeter b) LCR meter  c) Signal generator  d) Oscilloscope
2. In mechanical Engineering - Hooke's Law of Elasticity describes the operation of - a) a linear spring  b) a rubber band  c) yield strength  d) shear strength
3. The Geiger Counter measures sound wave density - True or False
4. In the SI system of units - the Coulomb is a measure of Electric Charge - True or False
5. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around a planetary body are not classed as artificial satellites  - True or False
6. Willis Haviland Carrier is associated with which industry - a) Printing  b) Air Conditioning  c) Packaging  d) Warehousing and Transport
7. In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer - True or False
8. Scottish engineers Thomas Telford  and John Loudon McAdam are associated with what  - a) Road Construction  b) Bridge Construction  c) Tower Construction  d) Tunnel Construction
9. The - International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet - is more commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet - True or False
10. An Aqueduct is a flue constructed to convey smoke away from a heat source - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) d) Oscilloscope  2) a) a linear spring  3) False - It detects the emission of nuclear radiation  4) True  5) False - They are artificial Satellites  6) b) Air Conditioning  7) True  8) a) Road Construction  9) True  10) False - it is a water supply