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 ?
- The International Space Station is the largest man made object in space – True or False
- Vertigo is the common name for a green pigment formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time. - True or False
- Isotopes are variants of atoms of a particular chemical element, which have differing numbers of neutrons – True or False
- The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is - a) a 4 wheel drive track through the Atacama Desert b) a radio telescope located in the Atacama desert , c) an underground complex of tunnels in the Atacama desert d) an unmanned weather monitoring airship in the Atacama desert
- What is the name of a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh
- 100 degrees Fahrenheit equals how many degrees Celsius
- The Die Casting process forces molten metal under high pressure into a mould cavity. The majority of Die Casting are non ferrous metals - True or False
- What is the opposite of Compressive Strength
- An Arbor is the name given to an axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe - True or False
- A PIR sensor measures infrared light radiating from objects in its field of view. What does PIR stand for
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) False - Verdigris is the correct name for this condition 3) True 4) b) a radio telescope located in the Atacama desert 5) Chainmail or Mail 6) 37.8 deg C 7) True 8) Tensile Strength 9) True 10) Passive Infrared Sensor
