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. A Mnemonic is  - a) an operatic expression  b) a learning technique  c) a woodwind instrument  d) a memory lapse
2. There are no naturally occurring magnets or magnetised minerals - True or False
3. DuPont, the American chemical company  was founded in 1802 as a Gunpowder Mill - True or False
4. Joules, Calories and BTU's are all units of measurement of Enthalpy  - True or False
5. The first television satellite which was launched from Cape Kennedy in 1962 was called Telstar - True or False
6. A Spectrometer is an instrument used to measure wind  speed, and is a common weather station  instrument - True or False
7. The parachute was invented before the aeroplane was invented - True or False
8. In the SI unit system the base unit of Luminous Intensity is the Candela - True or False
9. In 1892, America's first district heating  system powered directly by Geothermal Energy was opened in Chicago - True or False
10. How many golf balls are there on the moon - a) 2  b) 3  c) 4  d) 5

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ANSWERS

1) b) a learning technique  2) False - there are 2 naturally occurring magnetic minerals - Lodestone and Pyrrhotite   3) True  4) True  5) True  6 ) False - A Spectrometer is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum  and is typically used to identify material  7) True  8) True  9) False - America's first district heating  system powered directly by Geothermal Energy was opened in Boise, Idaho  10) b) 3