The Orifice
Pop Culture, Stupid Answers
Breaking the Phonics Rules
Breakfast Cereals
CSC Corner
100
The frenulum linguae keeps this attached to the floor of your mouth.
What is the tongue?
100
This 2002 film was an adaptation of Susan Orlean's book "The Orchid Thief".
What is Adaptation?
100
"C" is generally soft when it comes before "E", but not at the start of this musical instrument.
What is a Cello?
100
This cereal's flavors include Honey Nut & Honey Nut Medley Crunch.
What is Cheerios?
100
The CSC recently earned Pizza because the agents accomplished this for the first time in a very long time.
What is Met Service Levels?
200
Tiny orifices called nasolacrimal ducts help drain away these.
What are tears?
200
In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song.
What is 1999?
200
English words that end in "int" usually have a short "I" --oops, not this measurement.
What is a pint?
200
The mascot for this cereal lives on the S.S. Guppy.
Who is Cap'n Crunch?
200
FISSA stands for this.
What is Federal Information System Security Awareness?
300
This fleshy curved part of the ear outside the head is mainly cartilage & sounds like a medium at Delphi.
What is an auricle?
300
When he's rapping, Oscar winner Lonnie Lynn is more commonly known by this one-word name.
What is Common?
300
"SH" doesn't sound as usual in this insect that can leap 20 times its length.
What is a grasshopper?
300
You don't have to make your own snack mix with this cereal; you can buy bags of its Bold Party Blend or Muddy Buddies.
What is Chex?
300
This Friday (6/26), privileged users need to be ___.
What is PIV Enforced?
400
This soft tissue forms the innermost structure of a tooth & contains nerves & blood vessels.
What is pulp?
400
"A Captain's Duty", a memoir by Richard Phillips, was the basis for this 2013 movie.
What is Captain Phillips"?
400
This British distinction, like the order of the thistle, includes "th" but not as in thistle.
What is knighthood?
400
This Kellogg's cereal encourages you to "Show your stripes".
What is Frosted Flakes?
400
IOC is a type of scan, the acronym stands for this.
What is Indicator of Compromise?
500
To detect odor, cells in the nasal cavity send neural input to the bulb known by this sensory adjective.
What is olfactory?
500
Their country music hits include "My Home's In Alabama" & "Tennessee River".
What is Alabama?
500
There's a "PH" but no "F" sound in this type of difficult, tiring battle.
What is uphill?
500
In the name of a General Mills cereal introduced in 1984, this other breakfast food precedes "Crunch".
What is Cinnamon Toast?
500
This many people were affected by the OPM hack.
What is 4.2 million?
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