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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 Millau Viaduct,  the highest bridge in the world is in which country  -  a) Brazil  b) China  c) Japan  d) France
  2. What is the name of the engineering tool typically used to measure the outside diameter of tube, bar and similar - a)   Dividers  b) Outside Calipers  c) Gauge Blocks  d) Diameter Indicators
  3. What is the capital of Argentina
  4. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is - a) a military attack helicopter  b) a multirole jet fighter aircraft  c) a surface to air missile  d) a tracked armoured fighting vehicle
  5. Which of these  Engineering processes would be called "Subtractive Manufacturing" - a) Casting  b) Welding  c) Machining  d) Riveting
  6. What is the name of the coordinate system which specifies points on a plane using a pair of numerical  coordinates - a) Cartier  b) Cartesian  c) Cartridge  d) Carters
  7. In mechanical engineering , what name is used to describes machines that transfer energy  between a rotor  and a fluid  - a) Turbidmachinery  b) Turbomachinery  c) Turgidmachinery  d) Terbynemachinery
  8. What is the name of the force  resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other - a) Torsion  b) Strain  c) Friction  d)  Tension
  9. Inventor Osborne Reynolds is closely associated with the development of the electric motor - True or False
  10. What is the letter of the Greek alphabet which is typically used as the standard engineering symbol for stress - a) Alpha  b) Beta  c) Mu  d) Sigma

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ANSWERS

1) d) France  2) b) Outside Calipers  3) Buenos Aires  4) b) a multirole jet fighter aircraft  5) c) Machining  6) b) Cartesian  7) b) Turbomachinery  8) c) Friction  9) False - Reynolds is associated with Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer  10) d) Sigma