From the Southworth Planetarium
“Far afield…”
THE DAILY ASTRONOMER
July 16, 2010
Quiz: Non Sequitur
It doesn’t follow.
That is the theme of this week’s quiz.
Sometimes it’s a pure pleasure to wander down a meandering path without previous knowledge of what you might encounter (unless, of course, you’re in a Michael Crichton novel.) The world is full of ideas, imagination, objects, and other enterprises that entertain active minds. So, today, we toss ourselves into reality and fantasy’s roiling vauldron to discover, well, we have no idea. But, we just can’t wait to find out…
Want to join us?
1. If you suffer from Ergophobia, you have an irrational fear of what?
(a) pretentious ways of saying “therefore.”
(b) bats
(c) work
(d) caves
2. The power source of the sun is:
(a) Thermonuclear fission.
(b) Thermonuclear fusion.
(c) Coal.
(d) Petrochemicals generally.
(e) Hot air provided by years of professorial lectures.
3. Salvador Dail’s painting ‘The Persistance of Memory’ features three_____________
(a) swans a self-mutilating
(b) tangerine cloud banks
(c) melting clocks
(d) dancing moustaches
4. The simplest recipe of beer consists of _______________________
(a) water, yeast, barley, myrrh
(b) water, yeast, malt, and hops
(c) hops, faith and charity
(d) yak saliva, gold food coloring,
5. More than 10,000 birds die each year doing what?
(a) smashing into windows
(b) flying into electrical wire
(c) posing for Thomas Kinkade jigsaw puzzles
(d) drowning in clouds
6. Chain mail armor appeared in the 12th century, About how long did it take one person to
make one suit of mail armor?
(a) fourteen weeks
(b) 10 months
(c) 1 year
(d) 5 years
7. War and Peace (translated into English) has how many words?
(a) about 100,101
(b) about 349,000
(c) about 560,000
(d) more than 710,000
8. Whicb MLB player has the greatest number of career hits?
(a) Ty Cobb
(b) Pete Rose
(c) Babe Ruth
(d) Joe Dimaggio
9. The Amazonian rain forest extends over how many countries?
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 9
10. When was Velcro invented?
(a) 1801
(b) 1883
(c) 1941
(d) 1978
ANSWERS
1. (c) work
2. (b) Thermonuclear fusion.
3. (c) melting clocks
4. (b) water, yeast, malt, and hops
5. (a) smashing into windows
6. (d) 5 years
7. (c) about 560,000
8. (b) Pete Rose has 4,256 hits; Ty Cobb had 4,191. Still, Pete Rose remains out of the baseball Hall of Fame,
9. (d) 9
Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guinea.
10. (c) 1941
It was called the loop and hook fastener when it was invented,
RATINGS
30 CORRECT! Um, what quiz were you taking, exactly?
10 CORRECT! Mixed Metaphor Master!
You’re the bear that has to repeatedly hammer investors until they lapse into despair
7 – 9 CORRECT Mixed Metaphor Maestro
You’re the greatest thing to happen to music since sliced bread
3 – 6 CORRECT Mixed Metaphoris Majoris
One of the brighter tacks in the shed
1 – 2 CORRECT Mixed Metaphoris Minoris
At least you haven’t put all your spoiled cooks in one basket
0 CORRECT Swimming at the altar of your discontent’s winter
