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Category: Engineering Trivia

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 Electrical Engineering, what is the instrument which displays the phase of the colors in a color TV - a) LCR meter  b) Oscilloscope  c) Tube tester  d) Vectorscope
  2. Acoustics is the science of mechanical waves  in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration , sound , ultrasound  and infrasound  - True or False
  3. The Charpy Impact Test which is used for testing the strength of materials is an an acronym for Compression Hardness And Rate Per Yard - True or False
  4. Mainly used for surveying applications, what name is given to a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes - a) Theodore  b) Theodolite  c) Theon  d) Theonion
  5. A "Reticle" is a motorised 2 person boat - True or False
  6. A kilojoule (kJ) is equal to - a) 100,00 joules  b) 1,000 joules  c) 100 joules  d) 10 joules
  7. In Civil Engineering -  an "Abyssinian Well" is any device for securing a suspension or cantilever bridge at either end - True or False
  8. The knot is a unit of speed equal to one kilometre per hour - True or False
  9. What name is given to an optical device consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an eyepiece  at one end and an objective lens at the other end.  Typically they are linked together by a relay optical system - a) Periscope  b) Borescope  c) TV Scope  d) Videoscope
  10. Sloop, Cutter, Ketch and Schooner are all types of - a) Tractors  b) Sailing Boats  d) Steam Engines  d) Excavators

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ANSWERS

1) d) Vectorscope  2) True  3) False - it was developed in 1905 by French scientist Georges Charpy  4) b) Theodolite  5) False - it is a net of fine lines in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope  6) b) 1000 joules  7) False it is a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water  8) False - it is equal to one nautical mile per hour  9) b) Borescope  10) b) Sailing Boats