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 ?
- First defined by Professor Nicolas Clément in 1824 - The name for the unit of energy - which is derived from the Latin word for heat is the Calorie - True or False
- What name is given to the joining method - typically used in woodworking for the corners of drawers, boxes, cabinets etc which is distinguished by the ends being a larger size than the mating slotted apertures and hence resulting in a very strong corner joint - a) Dovetail b) Eagletail c) Owltail d) Crowstail
- In Engineering - The specified permissible allowable deviation from a dimension is called the - a) Toggle b) Tolerance c) Table d) Train
- What name is given to the metal joining process in which a groove, fillet or flange joint is bonded by using a nonferrous filler metal which has a melting point above 800 deg F (427 deg C) but below the solid state of the base metals - a) MIG b) TIG c) Brazing d) Soldering
- In Computer terminology - The Baud Rate is the Serial Communications Data Transmission Rate expressed in bits per second - True or False
- Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics - True or False
- A Jimball is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis - True or False
- Trypanophobia is the fear of what - a) Injections b) Underachieving c) Round Shapes d) Snakes
- In Computer terminology CPU stands for Central Processing Unit - True or False
- A Numismatist studies - a) Numbers b) Coins c) Sequences d) Stars
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) a) Dovetail 3) b) Tolerance 4) c) Brazing 5) True 6) True 7) False - A Gimbal is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis 8) a) Injections 9) True 10) b) Coins
