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 ?
- The speed of light in a vacuum is precisely 299,792,458 metres per second - True or False
- Lake Mead is the largest water reservoir in the United States - True or False
- Ozone is named after the Roman God of Light - True or False
- Harley Davidson Motorcycles were originally manufactured by the Hendee Manufacturing Company - True or False
- Which former Russian president had a degree in Civil Engineering (1955 - Ural Kirov Polytechnic) - a) Boris Yeltsin b) Nita Khrushchev c) Mikhail Gorbachev d) Leonid Brezhnev
- The M60 AVLB is a combat engineering vehicle in service with the US military - what does AVLB stand for a) Armored Vehicle Launcher Bridge b) All Vehicles Long Bridge c) Anti Velocity Light Barrier d) Any Vehicle Lynch Bridge
- BIOS is found on windows computers and stands for "Bootup Interdependent Overload Status" - True or False
- In Gear terminology, the name given to the depth of a tooth space below the pitch line is - Dedendum - True or False
- Thomas Edisons middle name was Arnold - True or False
- In Physics "Resonance" is the tendency of a system to oscillate at a greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) True 3) False - Ozone is named after the Greek verb ozein 4) False - Indian Motorcycles were manufactured by the Hendee Manufacturing Company 5) a) Boris Yeltsin 6) b) All Vehicles Long Bridge 7) False - BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System 8) True 9) False - It was Alva 10) True
