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 Electrical Engineering what instrument measures the resistance of a component - a) Ohmmeter  b) Multimeter  c) Q meter  d) Capacitance meter
2. In Mechanical Engineering - Stiffness may be described as the tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis - True or False
3. Gamma rays are ionizing radiation and are not biologically hazardous - True or False
4. In the SI system of units - the Steradian (sr) is a measure of Solid Angle - True or False
5. In engineering - Plug Taps, Second Taps and Taper Taps are used in hydraulic flow calculations - True or False
6. In the NATO phonetic alphabet - The letter W is - W for Water - True or False
7. In the SI system of units - kilogram is the unit of mass - True or False
8. 3/64 " equals how many millimeters - a) 1.19  b) 2.28  c) 3.35  d) 4.42
9. Lizard is a partially reusable spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company based in Hawthorne, California - True or False
10. Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers - True or False

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ANSWERS

1) a) Ohmmeter  2) False - it is the rigidity of an object relative to an applied force  3) False - Gamma rays are biologically hazardous  4) True  5) False - they are used for screw thread cutting  6) False - it is W for Whiskey  7) True  8) a) 1.19  9) False - it is Dragon  10) True