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. The noble gases make a group of chemical elements with similar properties - The six noble gases that occur naturally are helium , neon , argon , krypton , xenon , and radon  - True or False
2. The Dihedral angle is the upward angle from horizontal - for example of the wings or tailplane of a fixed-wing aircraft - True or False
3. Bamboo is one of the slowest growing plants in the world - True or False
4. In Geographic  terminology, the Prime Meridian is located at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France - True or False
5. What heavenly body is illuminated by Earthshine - a) The Earths Moon  b) Solar wind  c) Comets  d) Meteoroids
6. Bar, Pascal,  Pieze,  Torr are all measures of what  -  a) pressure  b) work  c) power  d) radiation
7. An analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove is also called    -   a) Gramoxone record   b) Gramophonedzie record c) Grammar record  d) Gramophone record
8. The Reaumur Scale is used to measure - a) Vibration  b) Temperature  c) Stress  d) Viscosity
9. Genealogy is the science comprising the study of solid Earth , the rocks  of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves  - True or False
10. A Scalene triangle is defined as a triangle with 2 equal sides - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) True  2) True  3) False - Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world  4) False - the Prime Meridian is located at Greenwich, England  5) a) The Earths Moon  6) a) pressure  7) d) Gramophone record 8) b) Temperature  9) False -Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history - Geology is the study of solid earth  10) False - A scalene triangle has each of its sides a different length