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. Rayon is a manufactured regenerated cellulose fiber - True or False
2. What gas is released into the bloodstream when a diver suffers from "the bends" - a) Oxygen  b) Nitrogen  c) Carbon Dioxide  d) Carbon Monoxide
3. Iron Pyrites is also known as False Gold - True or False
4. Clyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus - True or False
5. Which inventor often slept in his clothes because he thought that changing them would cause insomnia - a) John Logie Baird  b) Charles Babbage  c) William Coolidge  d) Thomas Alva Edison
6. HCL,  H2SO4 and HNO3 are all alkalies - True or False
7. The study of the origin of words is called Enthalpy - True or False
8. Pickling a metal surface is a process which will Case Harden the surface - True or False
9. W.E.Demming, the American credited as being the inspinspiration behind the Japanese post war economic miracle had an engineering degree in - a) Civil Engineering  b) Mechanical Engineering  c) Chemical Engineering  d) Electrical Engineering
10. The logarithm of a number is the exponent to which another fixed value, the base, must be raised to produce that number - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) True  2) b) Nitrogen  3) False - Iron Pyrites is also known as Fools Gold  4) False - Clyde William Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto  5) d) Thomas Alva Edison  6) False - They are all acids  7) False - The study of the origin of words is called Etymology  8) False - Pickling a metal surface is a process which will remove surface impurities such as rust or contaminants  9) d) Electrical Engineering  10) True