Whazzat?
1. NOW THIS COULD be a lunar landscape, molten lead, or a Freudian dream. Could be, but isn't.
2. GLASS DOÖRKNOB? Uh-uh. Wheel on a toy? Try again.
HERE WE HAVE a toughie. After racking our super-charged imagination for five minutes, decided this doesn't look like a blasted thing.
By Jerry Knudson
THE CAMERA doesn't lie, they say, but it might give false impressions. Here are four photographs of familiar objects—things you see or use almost every day.
Try your luck (we mean native intelligence) at identifying them. We've fudged just a little perhaps, in that the angles may be a trifle odd, the pictures may be printed upside down, or the camera may be a little close. But none are microscopic.
For those who dislike parlor games, this page was intended as a superb example of aesthetic art.
The answers are printed upside down below. According to a pre-publication survey, this is how to grade yourself: If you don't get any right, you're average; one right, you're a genius; two right, you're eccentric; three right, you're half-bottled, and four right, you're suffering from hallucinations.
Good native intelligence! And no peeking.
ANSWERS
1. Aerial view of a Hawk's Nest roll.
2. Looking directly down on a coke bottle (empty, of course).
3. The working ends of a set of Yale lock keys.
4. Head-on view of an unsullied book of paper matches.
4. NATURE STUDY—This is(n't) an army of Japanese beetles climbing up an asparagus stalk. Took us hours to train the little beasties.