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 ?
- An aircraft nicknamed "the tin goose" was produced by which automobile company - a) General Motors b) Ford c) Chrysler d) Jeep
- In Control Engineering - RFID stand for Radio-frequency Identification - True or False
- What is the name of the metallurgical process which coats iron or steel with zinc, in order to prevent corrosion
- In metalworking - Bastard Cut, Second Cut and Smooth Cut are types of Cold Chisels - True or False
- John F Kennedy was the 32nd President of the United States. - True or False
- Model T Fords where painted black because - a) that was the cheapest color to buy b) it was Henry Fords favorite color c) it was the quickest drying color d) statistically more people buy black automobiles
- Miscible or Miscibility is the term used in chemistry which refers to the property of liquids to mix in all proportions thus forming a homogeneous solution - True or False
- Anthony Burgess was the author of the novel - "A Clockwork Orange" - True or False
- Albert Einstien compiled The Periodic Table (the tabular method of displaying the chemical elements based on atomic mass) - True or False
- The nerve agent Sarin Gas has been classified as a Weapon Of Mass Destruction - True or False
Quoteable Engineering Quote
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible
Theodore Roethke
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ANSWERS
1) b) Ford - the actual name was the Ford 4AT Trimotor 2) True 3) Galvanising 4) False - They are types of Hand Files 5) False - he was the 35th President 6) c) the quickest drying colour and hence better for the production line 7) True 8) True 9) False - The Periodic Table was compiled by Russian Chemist - Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869 10) True
