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 !

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1. A Dilatant material is one in which viscosity increases with the rate of Shear Strain and is an example of a Newtonian fluid – True or False
2. Friction is the name is given to the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and/or material elements sliding against each other – True or False
3. Waste water from sinks, showers, and bathtubs, but not toilets is generally referred to as what colored water
4. A Suffix is the name of a word or element which is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning – True or False
5. Chalk, limestone, and marble are common forms of what element which has the chemical symbol CaCO3
6. Smooth Cut, Second Cut and Bastard Cut refer to what metal working tools
7. Also used tp describe a short sleep,  what word is used to describe the raised surface or pile on cloth and similar materials
8. Latex is the name given to the milky sap of the rubber tree, Hevea Brasiliensis – True or False
9. The cubed root of 1728 = 12     - True or False
10. A Galvanic Cell is more commonly known as a Sacrificial Anode – True or False

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ANSWERS

1) False – It is an example of a non-Newtonian fluid  2) True  3) Grey Water  4) False – A Prefix is the name of a word or element which is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning  5) Calcium Carbonate   6) Hand Files   7) Nap   8) True   9) True   10) False - A galvanic Cell is more commonly known as an Electrical Battery