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. Is Irish Moss a type of grass, seaweed or peat
2. The CN Tower was the world's tallest freestanding structure on land, but in which city is it located
3. What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape
4. In Electrical Engineering what is the general purpose instrument which measures voltage, current and resistance etc - a) Multimeter  b) VU meter  c) Frequency counter  d) Ohmmeter
5. In Mechanical Engineering -  Ball, Roller, Needle, Taper are all types of what - a) Hammers b)  Chisels  c) Bearings  d) Drills
6. Gamma ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation - True or False
7. In the SI system of units - the Farad (F) is a measure of Illuminance  - True or False
8. In Mechanical Engineering - taps and dies are cutting tools  used to create screw threads  - True or False
9. Sputnik 1 was the worlds first artificial satellite and it was launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957 - True or False
10. In  hydraulic engineering - British Standard Pipe (BSP) threads and National Pipe (NP) threads are total interchangeable - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) Seaweed  2) Toronto  3) The vacuum cleaner  4) a) Multimeter  5) c) Bearings  6) True  7) False - it is a measure of electric capacitance  8) True  9) True  10) False