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 ?
- Karoshi is a Japanese word which means - a) death from overwork b) death from being electrocuted c) death from carbon monoxide poisoning d) death from drowning
- Solar flares can sometimes leave the sun and zoom towards Earth. When the high speed particles from the sun contact the Earth's magnetic field it produces a lighting effect known as The Aurora – True or False
- A Hydrophone is a microphone designed to be used underwater for detecting underwater sound - True or False
- Corrugated Paper was patented in 1856 and first used as a liner for tall hats – True or False
- Construction for the Golden Gate Bridge began in what year - a) 1931 b) 1933 c) 1935 d) 1937
- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta are the first 4 letters in which alphabet
- A Ballista is - a) a type of coffee b) an ancient missile weapon c) a moon of the planet Neptune d) an Italian ball game
- Thunder is caused by the atmospheric inversion of the partial droplets in non similar cloud formations - true or false
- The March Number is the name of the scale commonly used to represent the speed of an object when it is traveling close to or above the speed of sound – True or False
- In Electrical Engineering what instrument measures power - a) Wattmeter b) Electricity meter c) Network Analyser d) VU meter
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ANSWERS
1) a) death from overwork 2) True 3) True 4) True 5) b) 1933 6) The Greek Alphabet 7) b) an ancient missile weapon 8) False - It is caused by the sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightening lightning 9) False – it is the Mach Number 10) a) Wattmeter
