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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 Viking was an automobile produced by Ford in years 1929 to1931 – True or False
  2.  In the SI system, the derived unit of frequency is the Farad – True or False
  3.  In computer engineering a byte is the eight related bits of data or an eight-bit binary number – True or False
  4. Thermal Energy which is generated and stored in the Earth is called - a) Earth Heat Sink Energy  b) Geothermal Energy  c) Deep Rock Energy  d) Subterranean Stored Energy
  5. Anvils are tools traditionally used by – a ) Carpenters  b) Blacksmiths  c) Miners  d) Tailors
  6. Annealing is the name for the process of heating and slow cooling to toughen steel (or glass) by reducing its brittleness and internal stresses – True or False
  7. English inventor and engineer Thomas Savery is famous for the 1698  invention of the first commercially used – a) Steam powered engine  b) Water powered corn mill  c) Wind powered mine de-watering pumping system  d) Geothermal communal home heating system
  8. It is generally accepted that the  pneumatic tire was invented by brothers, Édouard and André Michelin – true or false
  9. In which US state is the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge  - a) Texas  b) Washington  c) California  d) Florida
  10. Viscosity is the name is given to "the measure of the resistance of a fluid to being deformed by either shear stress or extensional stress". It is commonly perceived as "thickness", or resistance to flow – True or False

Thought for the week

In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late
  Alison Headley


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ANSWERS

1) False – The Viking was produced by Oldsmobile (GM)  2) False -  In the SI system, the derived unit of frequency is the Hertz (Hz)  3) True  4) b) Geothermal Energy  5) b) Blacksmiths  6) True  7) a) Steam powered engine  8)  False – It is generally accepted that the pneumatic tyre was invented by Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop  9) d) Florida  10) True