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 ?
- In the SI system, the Pascal is a unit of Pressure/Stress - True or False
- Salt is the common name for the naturally occurring form of calcium carbonate - True or False
- The lower case Greek letter Omega is used to represent wavelength - True or False
- What does the H stand for in pH, the chemical measure of acidity
- Which Scandinavian king might you have in your mobile phone
- Which metal is obtained from the ore bauxite
- What does ROM stand for in computer terminology
- Is the state of the Earth’s "Outer Core" solid or molten
- Hertz are used to measure what
- Olfaction is another name for which if the five senses
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) False - Calcium Carbonate is Chalk ( Salt is Sodium Chloride) 3) False - Lambda (λ) represents wavelength 4) Hydrogen 5) Bluetooth 6) Aluminium 7) Read Only Memory 8) Molten 9) Frequency 10) Smell
