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 ?
- Mechanical or structural items marked as HDG on an engineering drawing would indicate - a) High Definition Gradient b) Hot Dip Galvanised c) Hot Drawn Grade d) Historic Datum Gate
- A Jockey Pump is a pump which is connected to a fire sprinkler system and is intended to maintain pressure in a fire protection piping system to an artificially high level so that the operation of a single fire sprinkler will cause an appreciable pressure drop which will be easily sensed by the fire pump automatic controller, causing the fire pump to start - True or False
- In chemical engineering, IUPAC stand for - "Internal Units of Pressure And Chemicals" - True or False
- A Newtonian fluid does not "flows like water" and its stress versus rate of strain curve is not linear and does not pass through the origin. - True or False
- Amman is the capital of Jordan - True or False
- What is the metal which was principally mined on the island of Cyprus during Roman times and hence given the name Cyprium, or "metal of Cyprus", and was later shortened to Cuprum - a) Cadmium b) Cobalt c) Chromium d) Copper
- In oil engineering terminology USGPD stand for - US Gallons Per Day - True or False
- In computer terminology WAN stands for - Wide Area Network - True or False
- Acetylene is the chemical compound with the formula C2H2 - True or False
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is generally accepted as the global standard for time - True or False
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything"
Thomas A. Edison
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ANSWERS
1) b) Hot Dip Galvanised 2) True 3) False - IUPAC stands for "International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry " 4) False - A Newtonian fluid does "flow like water" and its stress versus rate of strain curve is linear and passes through the origin 5) True 6) d) Copper 7) True 8) True 9) True 10) True
