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. A machine designed to fly by flapping wings and imitating the action of birds wings is called - a) a Monocopter  b) a Singularcoptor  c) an Ornithopter  d) a n Avemopter
2. The Mobius Band is a surface  with only one side and only one boundary component . - True or False
3. What is the currency of Argentina
4. V Belt drives where invented in 1917 by - a) John Gates  b) John Fenner  c) John Fence  c) John Doors
5. The word Hermetic, used to describe an airtight seal was created by the Heinz food company who first developed air tight sealed food packaging - True or False
6. Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines - true or false
7. Who first discovered the Magnetic Compass - a) the Greeks  b) the Eskimos  c) the Chinese  d) the Vikings
8. In electrical engineering - what does emf stand for
9. Threaded pipes used in plumbing or piping installations for the delivery of gases or fluids under pressure never have a threaded section that is tapered - True or False
10. 60 degrees Fahrenheit = approx 16 degrees Centigrade - True or False


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ANSWERS

1) c) an Ornithopter  2) True  3) Peso  4) a) John Gates  5) False - The word hermetic comes from the name of the Greek  god  Hermes  6) True  7) c) The Chinese  8) electromotive force  9) False - Tapered threads are commonly used for these applications  10) True