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 ?

1. The Oldsmobile automobile is named after – a) The old factory in which it was first manufactured  b) The old workers who manufactured the first automobiles  c) The old design which was used for the first production vehicles  d) the founder of the business, Mr Olds
2. The construction method typically used for warehouses , barns  and other places where large, open spaces are required at low cost is called - a) Project Frame  b)  Premier Frame  c) Pius Frame  d) Portal Frame
3.  In which movie does Hal play a pivotal roll – a) 2001 A Space Odyssey  b) Star Wars  c) Star Trek  d) Aliens
4. Captain Nemo commanded which vessel – a) The Titanic  b) The Nautilus  c) The Bismarck  d) U.S.S Constitution 
5. The Rankine Cycle is the name of the heat cycle in a steam engine – True or False
6. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the development of the Stealth Bomber – True or False
7. With what branch of engineering do you associate Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun – a) Civil Engineering  b)  Rocket technology and astronautics  c) Computer Engineering  d) Geophysical Engineering
8. The oldest car in the world which is still running is a 1904 Rolls Royce Phantom – True or False
9. The largest extractor of natural gas in the world is also the largest company in Russia, it  is -  a) RussiaGas b) GasRussia  c) Promgaz  d) Gazprom
10. What was the "Tucker Torpedo" – a) a Guided Missile  b) an Unmanned drone  c) An Automobile  d) a Hand Grenade

Thought for the week

It doesn't matter how good it is - it can always get better

(conversly - it doesn't matter how bad things get - they can always get worse)

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ANSWERS

1) d) the founder of the business, Mr Olds ( Ransom E. Olds )  2) d)Portal Frame  3) a) 2001 A Space Odyssey  4) b) The Nautilus  5)  True  6)  False - The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs  during World War II  7)  b)  Rocket technology and astronautics  8)  False - The world's oldest running car is an 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trapardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout  9)  d) Gazprom  10) c) an Automobile ( conceived by Preston Tucker  and briefly produced in Chicago  in 1948 )