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By Philip Ashworth, Process Industries Division Board Member

Quiz 1

WHO WROTE?

Question 1
Do you recognise yourself?
“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humour, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free from uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.”

Question 2
“If we want any work done of an unusual character, and send for an architect, he hesitates, debates, trifles: We send for an engineer, and he does it.”

Question 3
“Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”

Question 4
“I shall not want capital in heaven
For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond
And we shall lie together lapt
In a two per cent exchequer bond.”

Question 5
“For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard: and it shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon”

Question 6
“Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer”

Question 7
“There once was a man who said "Damn"
It is borne in on me that I am
An engine that moves in predestinate grooves
I'm not even a bus, I'm a tram”

Question 8
“As when that devilish iron engine, wrought
in deepest hell, and fram'd by furies' skill
With windy nitre and quick sulphur fraught
And rammed with bullets round, ordain'd to kill
Conceiveth fire”

Quiz 2
What acronyms all process engineers need to know, do you know what the below stands for:

1. WEEE
2. VOC
3. BATNIEC
4. SME
5. BPEO
6. ATEX (special prize for getting this one exactly correct)
7. SIL
8. LoPA
9. CATNIP
10. ERASMUS