The Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging selection of General Engineering questions and answers
ometimes 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 ?
- Beam, Cantilever, Arch, Suspension are all types of what - a) Bridges b) Plinths c) Foundations d) Dams
- Who was the first human to travel in space - a) Neil Armstrong b) Yuri Gagarin c) Valentina Tereshkova d) Alan Shepard
- Earl Grey is a type of what - a) Coffee b) Wine c) Distilled Spirit d) Tea
- The "Bessemer Process" was the first system used for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron - True or False
- A Catenary is the name of the curve formed by a hanging flexible wire or chain which is supported at its ends and acted upon by a uniform gravitational force - True or False
- PDF is commonly used for imaging documents - PDF stands for Page Direct Format - True or False
- Galileo originated the concept of a programmable computer and is generally Considered the "father of the computer" - True or False
- In a strength of materials context Young's Modulus is the constant defined by - Stress/Strain - True or False
- The Radian is the SI unit of frequency - True or False
- What name is given to a triangle which has two sides of equal length and two equal angles (namely, the angles opposite the equal sides) - a) Equilateral b) Isosceles c) Scalene d) Acute
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ANSWERS
1) a) Bridges 2) b) Yuri Gagarin 3) d) Tea 4) True 5) True 6) False - PDF stands for Portable Document Format 7) False - Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer conceptualised and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century 8) True 9) False - The Hertz (Hz) is the SI unit of Frequency 10) b) Isosceles
