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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. What is the transuranic radioactive chemical element with the chemical symbol Pu - a) Hydrogen  b) Zirconium  c) Strontium  d) Plutonium
  2. In Electrical Engineering, what name is given to an electrical device that converts alternating current , which periodically reverses direction, to direct current, which flows in only one direction - a) Alternator  b) Rectifier  c) Inverter  d) Switch
  3. Sand, Shell, Plaster, Investment, Die, Centrifugal are all types of what metal forming process - a) Casting  b) Welding  c) Machining  d) Stamping
  4. Ziang Jie Jie, in Hunan Province, China is famous for what engineering marvel - a) A suspension bridge  b) An elevator ride on the side of a mountain  c) A subterranean cavern  d) A flood protection mechanism
  5. When using a scriber to mark out a metal workpiece, it may be coated with a surface coloring in order to make the scribed lines more prominent.  What color is typically used  -  a) Black  b) Red  c) Green  d) Blue
  6. Who invented the first web browser
  7. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is - a) a military attack helicopter  b) a multirole jet fighter aircraft  c) a surface to air missile  d) a tracked armored fighting vehicle
  8. A manufacturing process which makes three dimensional  solid objects from a digital file is called - a) 3D Printing  b) 3D Extrusion  c) 3D Molding  d) 3D Sculpting
  9. What is the distilled alcoholic beverage made from grain mash whose name is derived from a Gaelic word which means "water of life"
  10. A gas turbine is a type of internal combustion engine . - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) d) Plutonium  2) b) Rectifier  3) a) Casting  4) b) An elevator ride on the side of a mountain  5) d) Blue  6) Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 (WorldWideWeb)  7) b) a multirole jet fighter aircraft  8) a) 3D Printing  9) Whisky  10) True