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 ?
- Eggstraction is the process of pressing metals (or other solids) through a die to form a specific continuous cross sectional solid - True or False
- Earthquake intensity is measured on a base 10 logarithmic scale - What is the name of the scale - a) Bortle Scale b) Ulmer Scale c) Hynek Scale d) Richter Scale
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented a version of the Hygrometer to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco in the 1400's - True or False
- Diego Garcia is a French -US navel base is on the Chagos Archipelago - True or False
- Black Diamond was the shipping line which owned the Titanic - True or False
- Copper is the worlds most widely used Non Ferrous metal - True or False
- JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group - True or False
- In the early 1930's German airships made regular transatlantic commercial flights - Hydrogen was the gas used to inflate these air ships - True or False
- In electrical terminology UPS stands for Ultra Portable Storage - True or False
- Sarin Gas, the nerve agent was discovered in 1938 by German scientists who where attempting to create Synthetic Fibres to replace Germany's reliance on rubber which was sourced from the far east - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) False - Extrusion is the process 2) d) Richter Scale 3) True 4) False - It is a joint British and US navel base 5) False - White Star was the shipping line which owned the Titanic 6) False - Aluminium is the most widely used Non Ferrous metal 7) True 8) True 9) False - UPS stands for Uninterruptible Power Supply 10) False - Sarin Gas was discovered by German scientists attempting to create stronger pesticides
