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 ?
- 1/16" equals what decimal of an inch - a) 0.000 625 b) 0.006 25 c) 0.062 5 d) 0.625
- The Bar is a SI unit of pressure - True or False
- The rotor of a Wankel engine has curved sides of constant width and is therefore a Reuleaux Triangle - True or False
- Mars is the sixth planet from the Sun - True or False
- In Mechanical Engineering - Taps and Dies are used to create screw threads - True or False
- The Lux is the SI derived unit of Luminance - True or False
- The intelligence of machines and robots and the branch of computer science that aims to create it is known as - a) Super Computerised Knowledge b) Artificial Intelligence c) IT Extreme Knowledge d) Computer Processing Power
- What name is given to a device which delivers an ignition source to the compressed fuel/air mixture in the compression chamber of an internal combustion engine - a) Ignitor b) Conductor c) Lighter d) Spark Plug
- In maths, a prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself - True or False
- In Engineering - fatigue is the progressive and localized structural damage caused by a material being subjected to cyclic loading - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) c) 0.062 5 2) False - the Bar is a non SI unit of pressure and was introduced by British meteorologist William Napier Shaw in 1909 3) False - the sides are flatter and do not have constant width 4) False - It is the fourth planet from the Sun 5) True 6) True 7) b) Artificial Intelligence 8) d) Spark Plug 9) True 10) True
