Piecemeal Quotes Trivia Quiz

Answer: sane

"Show me a SANE man and I will cure him for you."

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychologist who was the founder of analytical psychology. He once met Sigmund Freud in America who told him about his erotic dreams and his feelings regarding American women - in response Jung told him to seek psychotherapy but Freud refused, as he was a married man.

Answer: being

"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use BEING a damn fool about it."

W.C. Fields' (1880 - 1946) full name was William Claude Dukenfield. He was an actor and comedian. One of his downfalls was his drinking which caused him to seek treatment at the Pasadena sanatorium. The program must not have had an impact upon him as he used to get his friends to sneak bottles of gin in. Mr Fields declared he only drank to steady his nerves and once he said "Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months."

Answer: sick

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only SICK."

George Burns' birth name was Nathan Birnbaum. He was born in 1896 and died in 1996 from natural causes. He was a comedian and actor who often co-starred with his wife Gracie (also deceased). Mr Burns won numerous awards - one being an Oscar in 1975 for his role in "The Sunshine Boys". George Burns has been honoured with having three stars on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. These are for his involvement in radio, acting and the recording arts. At one site, the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, included in the usual cement impressions is one of a cigar.

Answer: change

"If the facts don't fit the theory, CHANGE the facts."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) was a German-born American physicist who won the Nobel Prize. Although he was brilliant at his work, his dress sense was lacking, even to the point that his wife complained about it. When she suggested that he should dress more 'professionally' he replied "Why should I?"... "Everyone knows me there [at Princeton University]" and when she asked for him to get dressed up for a conference he retorted "Why should I?"... "No one knows me there!"

Answer: faith

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that FAITH does not prove anything."

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) was a German philosopher, poet and a classical philologist. One of his works "Birth of Tragedy" (1872) was extensively influenced by Richard Wagner (music composer). Bad health plagued him throughout his life. Bad eyesight and migraines caused him to resign from his post of being a professor at the University of Basel. In 1889, he suffered a mental breakdown from which he never made a full recovery.

Answer: transferred

"We have not lost faith, but we have TRANSFERRED it from God to the medical profession."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Anglo-Irish playwright and critic (music and theatre). He won the Nobel Prize in 1925 in the literature field for "Saint Joan" (1923). A story that revolves around this play is that at its American premier it was proposed to Shaw to make cuts in it, as it went for three and a half hours, thus if people travelled by train they would miss the last one to go home. Shaw's solution was "Begin at eight - or run later trains."

Answer: interrupt

"Never INTERRUPT your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, was also known as "The Little Corporal". In 1814, just before he was exiled to St Helena (after his defeat at Waterloo) he said goodbye (adieux) to the Imperial Guard in the courtyard at the Fontainebleau Place. Thenceforth this courtyard has been known as The Adieux Courtyard.

Answer: history

"HISTORY will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill (1874-1965) was once a prime minister of England and won the 1953 Nobel Prize for literature. Mr Churchill was very quick witted and was esteemed for his speeches.

Many stories surround this great man. One is that, during WWII, British soldiers found that using condoms on a gun's barrel kept it dry, prevented it from icing up and forming corrosion. The problem was that condoms did not come in the sizes needed for the larger weapons. It was suggested to Winston Churchill that 18" condoms be manufactured to overcome this. He agreed, but with the conditions that the large condoms be labelled "For Use By British Servicemen" and also be labelled "small'.

Answer: divorce

"Ah, yes, DIVORCE, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."

Robins Williams (born 1952) is an American actor and comedian. Robin Williams had to audition for his role of Mork in "Mork and Mindy" (a television show of the 1970s). Gary Marshall who was the producer asked him to take a seat, which he did, putting it on his head. Marshall gave him the part and said he was the only alien that auditioned. In the script there often were blanks with "Mork does his own thing" as Williams deviated from the script so much that the scriptwriters left it to him.

Answer: Middle

"MIDDLE age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash was born 1902 in Rye, New York and died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971. He was an American writer and poet who often wrote with humour. Originally he was a teacher on Rhode Island but resigned from that profession to become a salesman and from there a writer/poet.

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