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 ?
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering aspects of designing to withstand Cyclones - True or False
- In the armed forces an "Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle" is more commonly called a - a) Blimp b) Moth c) Drone d) Wasp
- MIT is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts traditionally known for research and education in the physical sciences and engineering - MIT stands for "Mechanical, Industry and Teaching" - True or False
- Swaging is typically a cold working process in which the dimensions or section of a part are changed by forcing the part through dies - True or False
- Ballistics is the science of mechanics which investigates the changes to the crystalline structure of materials in outer space - True or False
- Coalbed gas is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds and is primarily Butane - True or False
- The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. - True or False
- Gamma rays are used for the irradiation of food and seed for sterilization and are are used for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, - True or False
- In statistics , a Histogram is a graphical representation of the distribution of data - True or False
- The Hoover Dam created Lake Mead which is on the Colorado River in Nevada, USA - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) False - It is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behaviour of earth materials 2) c) Drone 3) False - it stands for "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" 4) True 5) False - Ballistics covers the flight, behaviour, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, gravity bombs, rockets 6) False -it is primarily Methane 7) True 8) True 9) True 10) True
