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 ?
- "A Chain" is the name used by surveyors for the unit of length which equals 66 feet (22yards) - True or False
- In Electrical Engineering UPS stand for - a) Under Process Standard b) Uninterruptible Power Supply c) User Post Supply d) Unusual Pressure Source
- In Chemical Engineering terminology - VOC stand for Virtual Oxygen Compound - True or False
- Old Nick is a slang name for "The Devil" - True or False
- What is the name of the device which transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled electrical conductors - a) Transporter b) Armature c) Transformer d) Coil
- A Centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, which puts a substance in rotation around a fixed axis, applying a force perpendicular to the axis thereby using the sedimentation principle and internal forces to separate substances of greater and lesser density - True or False
- What is the highly combustible gas which is used with oxygen in a welding process - a) Argon b) Acetylene c) Ammonia d) Methane
- Aluminium has a high electrical and thermal conductivity, second only to Silver among pure metals at room temperature - True or False
- Singer - David Robert Jones is better known as David Bowie - True or False
- A tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid like shape at the top is called an Obelisk - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) b) Uninterruptible Power Supply 3) False - VOC stands for "Volatile Organic Compound" 4) True 5) c) Transformer 6) True 7) b) Acetylene 8) False - Copper is the metal which is second only to Silver 9) True 10) True
