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 ?
- What name is given to a flexible outer garment which is worn by a person and has a powered system of motors or hydraulics which typically allows limb movement - a) Exosuit b) Powersuit c) Extendasuit d) Mechasuit
- Gaz automobiles are manufactured in which country - a) Brazil b) China c) India d) Russia
- In retail and warehousing terminology SKU stands for Single Kind of Unit - True or False
- What is Vinification - a) The process of wine production b) The process of beer production c) the process of whiskey production d) the process of cognac production
- A Capstan is the name given to a rotating machine which is used to apply force to a second element and is typically used on ships or dock walls for heaving in or veering ropes, cables and hawsers - True or False
- ASCII - stand for American Standard Code for Information - True or False
- The Archimedes Screw is the name of the rotating shaft which drives the headstock of a machine lathe - True or False
- What is the unit of viscosity named after Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille - a) Brix b) Stokes c) Pascal-second d) Poise
- In engineering DIN stand for Developed Intent of Normality - True or False
- The initials C of G on an engineering drawing refer to the Centre of Gravity of a component or assembly - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) a) Exosuit 2) d) Russia 3) False - SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit 4) a) The process of wine production 5) True 6) True 7) False - The Archimedes Screw is the name of the machine which was originally used to lift water into irrigation ditches and has origins going back to the 3rd century BC 8) d) Poise (symbol P) 9) False - DIN stands for Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization) 10) True
