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. Torsion is defined as “the resistance of a material to breaking under tension” - True or False
2. The word Parallax is used to describe a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight – True or False
3. Hipparcos was the name of the satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 which was the first space experiment devoted to precision astronomy - True or False
4. A pair of identical or mirror-symmetrical telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes when viewing distant objects is also called – a) Binoculars  b) Monoculars c) Binary Viewers  d) Fresnel Imager
5. What is the opposite of tensile strength
6. What is the highly corrosive and toxic acid with the symbol HNO3 – a) Sulphuric Acid  b) Phosphoric Acid  c) Perchloric Acid d) Nitric Acid
7. Typically used for survey work, a Theodolite is a precision instrument for measuring angles  in the horizontal and vertical planes - True or False
8. What name is given to a triangle with all sides being of unequal length – a) Isosceles  b) Obtuse  c) Equilateral  d)  Scalene Triangle
9. The polarity of an Anode is always positive - True or False
10. A scientist who studies Meteorites in space is a called a Meteorologist  - True or False

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ANSWERS
1) False – Torsion may be defined as “the action of twisting or the state of being twisted, especially of one end of an object relative to the other” 2) True  3) True - The word Hipparcos is an acronym for HIgh Precision PArallax COllecting Satellite  4) a) Binoculars  5) Compressive strength  6) d) Nitric Acid  7) True  8) Scalene Triangle  9) False  - in a device which consumes power the anode is positive, and in a device which provides power the anode is negative 10) False – Meteorologists study the weather