Guild-y as Sin: Lust Multiple Choice Quiz | Thematic Fun

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1. "We all have a love of trivia," says Patricck, "and look at each other's badges with lust, I'm sure. But, what does Matthew 5:28 say about anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye?"

Answer: He has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Patricck adds, "Different versions of this are:

"But I tell you that anyone who even looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

"But I say unto you, That whoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

The following quotation from 'The Bible in Basic English' seemed the most euphemistic:

"But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart."

Gee, I sure hope I haven't committed trivia adultery, Patricck!

2. "Of course," says Darksplash, "You're not the only one who knows about lust. OK, it may not have been the Gettysburg Address, but this was way up there among the most memorable of quotes by an (at the time aspiring) American President: 'I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I have committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do that, and forgives me.' "Who said it?"

Answer: Jimmy Carter

'Splash continues: "Carter said it in a 'Playboy' interview in 1976. A few weeks later he won the 1976 US Presidential election by the narrowest of margins (50.1 percent to Gerald Ford's 48.0). Carter was the 39th President and served from 1977 to 1981. Regarded by some as not the most dynamic of presidents, he nevertheless was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.

While many of Carter's comments were weighty and worthy, he could also come up with the good quip, such as 'I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming' and 'New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.'"

Shucks, Carter, I couldn't think of anything to top your lusty zest for quotable quotes here!

3. "Why stop with women?" says Solan_goose. "If you had just been enjoying Lusty Glaze and Brown Willy, what would you have been doing?"

Answer: Having a holiday/vacation in Cornwall

Solan_goose breaks the awkward silence following that question. "Lusty Glaze, generally believed to come from the Cornish language words for 'a place to view blue boats,' is one of the chain of sandy beaches that make up the seafront at the popular holiday resort of Newquay in the county of Cornwall in the south west of the UK.

Brown Willy, meanwhile, (from the Cornish for 'swallows' hill') is the highest hill in Cornwall, in the middle of Bodmin Moor. It has also given its name to the 'Brown Willy effect', a meteorological term for the very intense heavy showers that appear out of nowhere on Bodmin Moor and then sometimes spread to other parts of Cornwall. I have personal experience of this effect, having climbed Brown Willy in 1976 in the middle of the driest UK summer for decades. A cloudburst appeared out of a totally blue sky and I was utterly drenched. Fortunately there was photographic evidence, as no one believed me!

No one has yet sullied the name of these Cornish beauty spots by naming South African cocktails or types of cannabis after them. Young Paolo, however, is not above a little innuendo, as songs such of his such as 'Pencil Full of Lead' clearly show. Let's hope he never takes a holiday in Cornwall."

Dear Solan_goose, I'm sure your vacation stories have disappointed many a listener expecting something racy!

4. "Let's not make light of lust! It is, after all, a deadly sin," says TemptressToo. "No stranger to tales of lust and vengeance, what author is credited with this lusty quote?" "'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full.'"

Answer: William Shakespeare

TemptressToo--who else but the resident expert on the manipulation of lust?-- continues, "Many of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays dealt with a conflict between love, lust and betrayal. While the sonnets seem more personal, detailing the emotions Shakespeare felt at the time; plays like 'Romeo and Juliet', 'King Lear', 'Titus Andronicus', and 'Troilus and Cressida' (to name a few) all have some aspect of wanting a woman (or man) and the extremes one goes to quench that thirst."

5. "Speaking of the Classics," says CellarDoor, "lust isn't just a human sin: the divine have had trouble with it, too! Zeus, king of the Greek gods, just couldn't stay away from women and goddesses who were not his wife -- and often resorted to complex subterfuges in order to have his way. Which of these women was NOT involved in one of Zeus's lustful episodes?"

Answer: Daphne

CellarDoor explains: "In most tellings, Daphne was a beautiful nymph who fell victim to lust, but she was pursued by the god Apollo - not by Zeus. Praying for help to escape him (probably to her father, a river god), she was transformed into a laurel tree, which subsequently became Apollo's sacred tree. In Ovid's account of her transformation, he writes that 'only her shining beauty was left' ("Metamorphoses").

"Meanwhile, Dana� was the mother of Perseus. When her father received a prophecy that his grandson would kill him, he shut his daughter up in a tower. This didn't stop Zeus, who made a romantic appearance in the form of a shower of golden rain. Europa was a beautiful Phoenician woman; Zeus got close to her by taking the form of a beautiful white bull, and carried her off to Crete (where she later became queen) once he had gained her trust. Zeus and Io (perhaps an ancestor of Europa) were about to be caught in a compromising position by Hera; Zeus famously transformed his lover into a cow to protect her, but Hera wasn't impressed. It took a lot more intrigue (and some help from the god Hermes) to get Io free and human again!"

This reminds me of an op-ed article in that most reputable of news sources, "The Onion," in which Zeus complains that it's just too hard to seduce women as a bull any more - his horns keep getting caught in the shower curtain.

6. "But lust is not godlike!" interrupts Darksplash. "For instance, who said, 'I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust'?"

Answer: Mohandas Gandhi

Darksplash continues: "Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) became regarded as 'The Father of India' after his campaign of non-violence played a big part in winning his country's independence from British rule. He had been a life-long campaigner, although when it came in 1948, he deeply disapproved of the partition of India along religious lines."

7. According to the bookworm (or should that be BookBeagle?) in the 'Miss Silver' books by Patricia Wentworth, the eponymous heroine often gives 'The lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain' as a motive for crime, usually murder. But which poet's work does this come from?

Answer: Tennyson's 'Maud'

Alfred Lord Tennyson is Miss Silver's favourite poet, and coincidentally her name is also Maud. The full quote is "And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?" The poem 'Maud' also contains the verse set to music as 'Come into the garden, Maud'.

8. "But then," interjects Klavierstueck, cutting off Quiz_Beagle, "what of other kinds of lust? What about lust for knowledge? After all, quoth a famous 17th-century English philosopher: 'Curiosity is the lust of the mind.' Which philosopher said this?"

Answer: Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes, a brilliant philosopher and empiricist, spent his time thinking and writing. A boring profession? Perhaps not! Hobbes' study wasn't limited to just political empiricism; in fact, he was a philosopher in areas such as math and science as well. He is most well-known for his establishment of the "social contract," or basic human rules that all social beings follow to keep social order, as is the natural order of things.

9. After watching another inept performance by his favourite football team, Snowman just wished they showed a lust for winning, and that got him thinking that the 1956 movie "Lust For Life" was based on a novel of the same name by the author Irving Stone. Following the path of an artistic genius from his early days as a painter to his eventual self-destruction, the story is based on the letters written by the artist to his brother, Theo. Who was the artist, portrayed by Kirk Douglas, that was the subject of the movie?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

The story of van Gogh's lack of success during his lifetime and his death by self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 37 has become well-known. However, Stone's 1934 novel extensively used the correspondence between the artist and his art dealer brother and helped bring van Gogh's story to popular attention.

The 1956 movie saw Douglas nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars, where he lost out to Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I". The film's one Oscar success was achieved by Anthony Quinn, who was awarded the Best Supporting Actor statue for his performance as van Gogh's friend and fellow artist, Paul Gauguin.

10. All of this reminded Darksplash that Van Gogh did not make much money while he was alive, unlike a certain pop star who turned his hand to advertising car insurance on British television. Which star once sang: "Well, I'm just a modern guy Of course, I've had it in the ear before 'Cause of a lust for life 'Cause of a lust for life"?

Answer: Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg, Jr.) was born on April 21, 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "Lust For Life" was a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop and appeared on Iggy's 1977 album of the same name. "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked it number 147 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Iggy's 2010 advertisement was banned as "misleading" by the Advertising Standards Authority.

He later admitted, "This is so - embarrassing" in a newspaper interview.

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Guild-y as Sin: Lust Trivia Quiz

In 1321, Dante climbed the terraces of Purgatory and saw a new deadly sin on each level. Now the Quiz Makers' Guild is making the same trip, and seeing things Dante never dreamed of. We wrap up our tour with our seventh and final sin, lust.

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