QUIZ QUICK

1 The “Eastern garbage patch”, a gyre of marine litter estimated to be twice the size of Texas, is found in what ocean?

2 What term for a leader is also the name of a butterfly and an Australasian bird?

3 What meat is used in

a Reuben sandwich? 4 Tetraphobia, a superstition most common in East

Asia and Southeast Asia, is an aversion to what?

5 In what city is the headquarters of news network Al Jazeera?

6 Which Allen

Ginsberg poem begins with the line, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”?

7 Who invented the fitness system Pilates?

8 What nationality is soccer player Lionel Messi?

9 The Manhattan Project produced what weapon?

10 How many circles of hell are there in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Inferno?

ACROSS 1 Crustaceans (5) 4 Daydreamers;

jailbreakers (9)

9 Climbing (7)

10 Southern US

state (7)

11 Opera

introductions (9) 12 One part in

ten (5)

13 Shakes (7)

15 Juices (7)

17 Bliss (7)

19 Clear

gemstone (7)

22 Sword (5)

24 Rash; hasty (9) 26 Go back over (7) 27 Foggier (7)

28 Distributes (9) 29 Stairs (5)

DOWN

1 Traditions (7)

2 Schools (9)

3 Saliva (7)

4 Enthusiastic;

impatient (5)

5 Roughened (9)

6 Synthetic

material (7)

7 Country on the Iberian peninsula (5)

8 Large strips (7)

14 Parachuters (9) 16 Express regret (9) 17 Made certain (7) 18 Normal; mean (7) 20 Painters (e.g.) (7) 21 Abandons (7)

23 Units of computer

memory (5)

25 Pressure

increasers (5)