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Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

Sep-14-2006 18:48

From music to mystery, here's a list of quotes. You tell me who said them.

1. The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

2. At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

3. We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

4. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

5. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

6. It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

7. To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

8. The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.

9. Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

10. Now comes the mystery. (Last Words)

Good luck to all.

Sep-14-2006 20:15

Well, here goes nothing.
1. Carl Sagan
2. Agatha Christie
3. not a clue
4. no idea
5. Albert Einstein
6. Herman Melville (??)
7. Winston Churchill
8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. no clue
10. Arthur Conan Doyle

Sep-15-2006 00:33

2. Raymond Chandler
4. Oscar Wilde
7. Winston Churchill

Sep-15-2006 00:34

Rosie's back - yay!! :)

Sep-15-2006 02:48

1. Andre Malraux
2. Raymond Chandler
3. H.G. Wells
4. Oscar Wilde
5. Albert Einstein
6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Edward Chapin
8. Lao-Tzu
9. Henry Miller
10. Henry Ward Beecher

Sep-15-2006 07:48

1.?
2. Raymond Chandler
3. Wells?
4. Oscar Wilde
5. Einstein
6. hmmm...
7. Churchill
8. probably some old and wise philospher... :)
9. Henry Miller?
10. No idea

Sep-15-2006 08:29

randomly... 7 is Churchill coz I've used it in a quiz here myself... 4. is Oscar Wilde, I agree with others that 5. is Einstein. The rest? No idea. Though 10. reminds me for some strange reason of Spike Milligan's Epitaph which simply read "I told you I was ill!"

Sep-15-2006 12:46

I hope nobody minds but I have finished my quiz. I am only 3 weeks overdue! Once this one is finished I will post it, if thats ok with everyone.

Sep-15-2006 12:50

1. Carl Sagan
2. Agathat Christie
3. ?
4. ?
5. Albert Einstien
6. Jules Verne
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?

Sep-15-2006 19:23

And now for the answers.
1. Andre Malraux
2. Raymond Chandler
3. H.G. Wells
4. Oscar Wilde
5. Albert Einstein
6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Edward Chapin/Winston Churchill (My mistake, put two quotes there.)
8. Lao-Tzu
9. Henry Miller
10. Henry Ward Beecher

And with 10 out of 10, Cynderbear is our winner. You and Bill can decide who posts whose quiz.