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 ?
- Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center - True or False
- Jan 2014 - NASA reports that its second Mars rover is still operational - The first rover was called "Spirit" - what is the name of the second rover - a) Substance b) Discovery c) Endeavor d) Opportunity
- Jan 2014 - Apple celebrates 20 years of the Mac - True or False
- New scientific research shows the bad air and smog from China manufacturing sites is traveling across the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast of America - True or False
- Commonly displayed in science museums and universities, the Foucault Pendulum is a simple device which originated as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the earth - True or False
- The St. Louis Gateway Arch which is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri is in the form of an inverted catenary - True or False
- Galvanic Corrosion is corrosion damage created when similar materials are joined by a corrosive electrolyte - True or False
- A carabiner (or karabiner) is a mobile stretcher typically used to air lift injured people by helicopter from inaccessible areas - True or False
- Starfish do not have brains - True or False
- In Japanese manufacturing terminology - SMED stand for "Standardised Manufacturing of Engineering Design" - True or False
If it wasn't documented - it never happened
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) d) Opportunity 3) False - Apple celebrates 30 years of the Mac 4) True 5) True 6) True 7) False - Galvanic Corrosion is corrosion damage created when dissimilar materials are joined by a corrosive electrolyte 8) False - A carabiner is a metal loop with a spring loaded gate typically used as a safety joining hook 9) True 10) False - SMED stands for "Single Minute Exchange of Die
