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 ?
- The gas voltaic battery - later renamed the "fuel cell" was invented by Sir William Grove in 1839 - True or False
- Krakatoa is an Indonesian island made famous in 1883 by a volcanic eruption which caused a massive Tsunami - True or False
- In computer engineering BPS stands for "Bits Per Second" - True or False
- The European GPS (Global Navigation Satellite System) project is called - a) Picasso b) Galileo c) Archimedes d) Pythagorus
- The unit of "illuminance" in the SI system is - a) Pascal b) Hertz c) Steridan d) Lux
- In computing, petascale refers to a computer system capable of reaching performance in excess of one petaflops - that is one quadrillion floating point operations per second - True or Falase
- Which Japanese manufacturer of automobiles, four-wheel drive vehicles, motorcycles, outboard marine engines and wheelchairs is headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan - a) Toyota b) Mazda c) Suzuki d) Honda
- "Nappa" may refer to a type of - a) Light Source b) Leather c) Grindstone Finish d) Hand Chisel
- The Kalashnikov automatic rifle is also known as what alpha numeric - a) AK-44 b) AK-45 c) AK-46 d) AK-47
- In computer engineering FORTRAN stands for "FOR TRANsmission" - True or False
``What you need to invent,
is an imagination and a pile of junk.''
Thomas Edison,
quoted on National Public Radio,
November, 2001
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) True 3) True 4) b) Galileo 5) d) Lux 6) True 7) c) Suzuki 8) b) Leather 9) d) AK-47 10) False - FORTRAN stands for "FORmula TRANslation"
