Form a proverb!

Write answers to the following clues. Then pick the first letter of each and form a proverb. If you already know the proverb, it is then easy to solve!

(a) A furnace for making pottery or bricks or lime.
(b) The point exactly opposite to the zenith.
(c) A non-flying bird.
(d) One of the discoverers of the molecular structure of
DNA (Surname),
(e) A unit of illumination.
(f) The apparent path of the Sun in the sky > elative to stars.
(g) The English physicist who is one of the originators of
Quantum Physics (Surname).
(h) The chemical element whose symbol is Au.
(i) The hypothetical medium through which Sight and radio
waves was supposed to travel.
(j) The quantity greate. than any given quantity.
(k) \ 2 is an example of a
(1) A figure with any number of sides and angles,
(m) A sleep-producing drug.
(n) An apparatus found in the laboratory to generate staticelectricity
(Two words),
(o) Young plant before germination,
(p) Half of diameter.

Answer:



Knowledge is Power

(a) Kiln (b) Nadir (c) Ostrich (d) Watson (e) Lux
(f) Elliptic (g) Dirac (h) Gold (i) Ether (j) Infinity
(k) Surd (1) Polygon (m) Opium (n) Wimshurst machine
(0) Embryo (p) Radius

Memory Challenge

As a memory challenge, study the animal silhouettes as follow for two minutes!

Animal Silhouettes

Without looking at the above silhouettes, answer the questions below:

a) How many horses are there?

b) Are there more butterflies than fish?

c) What is the last animal depicted?

d) What is the number of bears?

Answer:

a) 4

b) No

c) Elephant

d) 1

Brain Speed Test

In the following figure, in 15 seconds, can you find which three figures are identical?

Brain Speed Test

Answer:

How much did Alaranthus weigh?

Pymm has many dragons. A few years ago, one of these dragons, Alaranthus, though not fully grown, weighed 1000 pounds plus two-thirds of his own weight. How much did Alaranthus weigh?

Answer:

3000 pounds. Alaranthus's weight was such that 1000 pounds was equal to one-third of his weight. So his total weight in pounds was 3 x 1000.

Stone Stew

After astronaut Mark got to the dig, he collected rock specimens to take back to the Earth scientists. He packed the rocks into three sacks: one for igneous rocks, one for sedimentary and one for metamorphic. But, rushing to return to the aircraft before his portable oxygen ran out, he mislabeled all the sacks. How many rocks did he have to take out of how many sacks in order to find out what was in each one?

Answer:

One rock from one sack. If he were to open the sack labeled "igneous," for instance, and the rock turned out to be sedimentary, then he would know that the other two sacks could not contain sedimentary rocks. The other sacks then would have either igneous or metamorphic rocks in them. Since all the sacks were mislabeled, the one labeled "sedimentary" must then contain metamorphic and the one labeled "metamorphic" must contain igneous rocks.