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. In Architectural nomenclature , an upwardly receding slope of a wall or column is called a Baluster - True or False
2. A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical  switch  designed to protect an electrical circuit  from damage caused by overload  or short circuit  - True or False
3. The lines drawn from the north to south poles are called Lines of Latitude - True or False
4. In the SI unit system the base unit of time is the Minute - true or false
5. The quest to transform base metals into gold or silver was known as - a) Antimony  b) Alchemy  c) Antimony  d) Adimony
6. Rubiks cube was invented by Hungarian Emo Rubik in what year – a) 1954  b) 1964  c) 1974  d) 1984
7. In 2012 the average automobile in the United Staes used 23.6 mpg.  By 2016, the EPA standard requires the average mpg for all automakers to be – a) 25 .5 mpg  b) 30 .5 mpg  c) 35.5 mpg  d) 40.5 mpg
8. The measure of the amount of Ozone overhead is called – a) Docker Unit  b) Dobroyd Unit  c) Dobson Unit  d) Delany Unit
9. Angular Contact, Axial and Deep Groove are types of what – a) Planetary Gear Systems  b) Bearings  c) Transmission Chains  d) Torque Converters
10. ASCII - stand for American Standard Code for Information Interchange - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) False - In Architectural nomenclature , an upwardly receding slope of a wall or column is called a Batter  2) True  3) False - The lines drawn from the north to south poles are called Lines of Longitude  4) False - In the SI unit system the base unit of Time is the Second  5) b) Alchemy  6) c) 1974  7) c) 35.5 mpg  8) c) Dobson Unit  9) b) Bearings  10) True