The Coffee Break Hard Trivia Quiz - A challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia 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 ?
The positive side of a Diode is called the Cathode and the negative side of the Diode is called the Anode – True or False
The positive side is the Anode and the negative side is the Cathode
An instrument for measuring Acceleration or Vibration is called an Accelerometer – True or False
ARPANET was the first - wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. - ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork – True or False
In the Roman numeral system - the number XCIII is equal to 83 – True or False
XCIII = 93
Compounds which lower the surface tension of a liquid are called Mutants– True or False
the correct answer is Surfactants
The word cement traces its origins back to which culture...
A mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction is called a Spline – True or False
the correct answer is a Ratchet
In what year was the Polaroid instant camera released...
The first Polaroid camera, called the Model 95, and its associated film went on sale in 1948 at a department store in Boston.
The shape of an aircraft wing or propeller blade - as seen in cross section is called Airfoil (or Aerofoil in the UK) – True or False
Early ceiling fans used during the 1860's and 1870's in the United States were powered by water - True or False
True, A stream of water was used in conjunction with a turbine