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 ?
- From what company's plant did toxic gas escape in Bhopal, with devastating results
- What very useful device was added to PCs for the first time in a new version of the Apple, launched in 1983
- Thomas Edison averaged one patent for every a) three b) six or c) nine - weeks of his life
- What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592
- What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid
- What does LED stand for in electronics
- The first man made space satellite, Sputnik was launched in which year - 1955, 1956, or 1957
- A Belleville washer is a type of Helical Spring - True or False
- 1 meter = 3.28 ft = 39.27 in - True or False
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The Indian Motorcycle was manufactured in which country
Some say the cup is half empty, while others say it is half full.
However, in my opinion both are wrong.
The real problem is the cup is too big.
From the book "Foundation design", by Coduto, Donald P.
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ANSWERS
1) Union Carbide (more than 20,000 deaths resulted from the 1984 accident) 2) The mouse. 3) Three 4) Galileo 5) Pink 6) Light Emitting Diode 7) 1957 8) False - It is a coned disc shape, a type of spring shaped like a washer 9) True 10) USA (Springfield, Massachusetts)
