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. The Three Gorges Dam is in which country - a) Thailand  b) Malaysia  c) China  d) Indonesia
2. In electrical engineering, Faradays Law of Induction dates from - a) 1730's  b) 1830's  c) 1930's
3. What name is given to the thermodynamic property that can be used to determine the energy not available for work  in a thermodynamic process  - a) Entree  b) Entropy  c) Entendre  d) Eek
4. The WW11 Panzer was a -  a) Troop Carrier  b) Tank  c) Artillery Gun  d) Armoured Car
5. The chemical element sulphur is a multivalent metal - True or False
6. In Roman Numerals, "D" equals what number - a) 50  b) 100  c) 500  d) 1000
7. Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet - True or False
8. The Otto Cycle is a type of bicycle - True or False
9. What common name is given to a series of connected links - a) Chain  b) Rope  c) String  d) Weave
10. The fictional "Flux Capacitor" was the core component of time travel in which movie  - a) Back To The Future  b) A Space Odyssey  c) The Time Machine  d) The Terminator


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ANSWERS

1) c) China  2) b) 1830's  3) b) Entropy  4) b) Tank  5) False - it is a multivalent non-metal   6) c) 500  7) True  8) False - it is the four stroke combustion cycle utilized by the internal combustion engine  9) a) Chain  10) a) Back To The Future