Hemispheres Magazine

Crosswords / Sudoku

Download the crosswords and sudoku

Quiz

REFERENCE POINTS
ACTUALLY, YES, IT IS WHAT YOU KNOW // BY NOAH TARNOW

1. BREAKFAST CEREAL HAIKU

Name the popular brand of cereal indicated by each three-line poem.

A.
Small tan puffs of grain

A most loquacious breakfast
When you add the milk

B.
There are no Concords
Nor cashews, almonds, filberts
This name puzzles me

C.
You like something else?
Must consume bowls aplenty
Or just one of this

D.
Mute child enjoyed it
Then consumed Pop Rocks and Coke
He went ka-blammo

2. THE MENTAL PROVERB THESAURUS

Translate these common proverbs from fancyspeak to their more familiar form, including the authors’ names. FOR EXAMPLE: “Everything is decent should it come to completion in a decent fashion.” — Jiggle, pointed stick

“All’s well that ends well.”— Shakespeare

A. “The male deer comes to a complete halt at this spot.” — Verifiable Homo sapiens

B. “ Beyond this time period, all individuals will possess notoriety for a span of one ninety-sixth of a terrain rotation.” — Extended battle, aperture

C. “ Silly ones make haste in the spot at which celestial beings are apprehensive about leaving footprints.”— Catholic leader

D. “ Within this plane of being, zero had certitude with the exception of life-cessation and government-issued levees.”— Type of stove

3. THE URBAN LEGENDS CHALLENGE

Fill in the blanks in these modern tall tales.

A. “Some guy in Pennsylvania went to a flea market, right? And he spent $4 on an old wooden _____, and when he ripped it apart, he found an original copy of _____ hidden inside. And he sold it for, like, a couple million dollars.”

B. “There are big giant _____ living all over the place down in the_____ of New York City. They sneak in on cruise ships coming up from Florida.”

C. “Pia Zadora was on Broadway playing the lead in _____. And she was so bad, when the Nazis showed up, someone in the audience shouted, ‘She’s in the _____!’”

D. “This architect designed a new _____ for some university somewhere, but after they built it, it started sinking into the ground because this moron didn’t account for the weight of the _____.”

4. BONUS QUESTION:

One of these tales is true. Which one?

FOR MORE INFO, GO TO BIGQUIZTHING.COM

ANSWERS

1.) A: RICE KRISPIES B: GRAPE-NUTS C: TOTAL D: LIFE
2.) A: “THE BUCK STOPS HERE.”—TRUMAN B: “IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15
MINUTES.”—WARHOL C: “FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD.”—POPE D: “IN THIS WORLD,
NOTHING IS CERTAIN BUT DEATH AND TAXES.”—FRANKLIN
3.) A. PICTURE FRAME; DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE B. ALLIGATORS; SEWERS
C. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK; ATTIC D. LIBRARY; BOOKS
4.) BONUS ANSWER: A.

Advertisements