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 !

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1. Fuzzy logic is a term describing freehand engineering sketches - True or False
2. A structural element used to brace or strengthen a framework by resisting longitudinal compression is called a Strut - True or False
3. In pumping terms - Pump Head is defined as the volume of liquid passing through a given orifice diameter - True or False
4. In Electrical Engineering - the "Power Factor" of an AC system is a dimensionless number - True or False
5. In digital visual arts, the "Aspect Ratio" is a measure of the screen pixilation - True or False
6. In Structural and Mechanical Engineering, the" Euler-Bernoulli theory" is used for slender beam calculations - True or False
7. "Surveyor 1" was the mission name of the first Soft Landing on the moon - True or False
8. The Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) connects the United Kingdom with which European country - a) Belgium  b) France  c) Holland  d) Germany
9. On average - "Sea Water" has a salinity of about - a) 0.35%  b) 1.35%  c)  2.35%  d) 3.35%
10. In mathematics and digital electronics the Binary Number System is made up of 1's and 2's - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) False - Fuzzy logic is a term used in computing which applies variable reasoning to approximate rather than fixed and exact values  2) True  3) False - Pump Head is defined as the vertical height a pump can raise a fluid  4) True  5) False - the "Aspect Ratio" specifies the proportional ratio between width and height  6) True  7) True  8) b) France  9) d) 3.35%  10) False - the Binary Number System is made up of 0's and 1's