All About Mind Trivia Quiz

Answer: matter

The idea of using your "mind over matter" says that people can by the efforts of their thinking make real changes in circumstances.

The American writer Mark Twain once famously said, "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

Mind and matter (or body) were often considered totally different. Today, people are studying the powers of the mind and coming to some exciting conclusions about its potential strengths in the areas of telekinesis and concentration.

See for one Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley, "The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force" and Theresa M. Kelly, "Telekinesis - The Metaphysical Manipulation of the Electromagnetic Force and Electrostatic Fields" as well as the article by VA Benassi, PD Sweeney, GE Drevno: "Mind over Matter: Perceived Success at Psychokinesis, "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology," 1979.

Answer: business

The verb "mind" equals "taking care of," so that telling you to "mind your own business" is literally saying to take care of your own stuff (as well as adding the innuendo: stop trying to meddle in other people's doings).
Some people believe the phrase came about when women were making candles together by the fires.
In "The Great Explosion," Erik Frank Russell shortened the entire expression to "MYOB" which was an act of civil disobedience.
The phrase "a wigwam for a goose's bridle", used in Australia, is an answer to the question "What are you making?" The answer could be "a wigwam for a goose's bridle." This was understood as "none of your business."

Answer: make up

Razorlight has a song called "Make Up Your Own Mind." McDonald's has used this phrase successfully in advertising.
The phrase "make up your mind" carries the idea that after careful thought, a person has come to a firm decision about something.

Some related thoughts:
"He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up." - Margot Asquith
"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision." - Oscar Levant
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up" - Mark Twain

Answer: sight

This phrase in its written form seems to date back to John Heywood in 1562. The phrase underscores the idea that if we don't have something right before us, we may forget it or them.

"Out of Mind, Out of Sight," aka "The Invisible Girl," is in the penultimate episode in the first season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Kris Kristofferson and Anthrax have done a song, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind,"

Answer: manners

There are Mind Your Manners shoes and a book by B.B. Wolf called "Mind Your Manners."

This phrase asks that people be on their best behavior. Sometimes, instead, the phrase "Mind Your P's and Q's" often gets said. There are two stories about the origin of the phrase.
One is from bartenders telling customers to mind their pints and quarts -- their p's and q's.
The other origin story comes from the times of early printing presses. Then, the letters were sometimes reversed, so it was necessary to call out "mind your p's and q's" to be sure those two letters were properly recognized.

All sources concur that you 'may' write "mind your ps and qs" or "mind your p's and q's." It is probably clearer to write the latter.

Answer: like

To be of like minds is a way of saying there is agreement.

"Like Minds" is a 2006 Australian film directed by Gregory Read.
There is a board game called "Like Minds".

Answer: peace

The phrase "peace of mind" has many musical ties: a 1960 Teresa Brewer song, a song on Boston's debut album "Boston." "Peace of Mind" is a 1946 book by Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman. There is at least one peace of mind jewelry line.
There is a Peace of Mind Foundation online which plays pretty music.

"Peace of mind" is considered by many to be equal to being free from stress and to having inner homeostasis. Many cultures believe that peace of mind is an enlightened result which only comes about after training of various types of disciplines such as introspection, meditation, or yoga.

Increasingly, well-balanced eating is called the source of inner peace of mind.

Answer: piece

This phrase means to tell someone off, to scold, to bawl out, to disapprove.

Edmund Wilson wrote a book, "A Piece of My Mind: Reflections, at Sixty."
Mr. B., The Gentleman Rhymer did "A Piece of My Mind."

Answer: bear

A great example of "bear something in mind" is from Abraham Lincoln.
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." Abraham Lincoln

Think of "to bear weight"; to "bear thinking about"
In contrast, "to lay bare" is to uncover or expose something.

"To bear in mind" is then to concentrate hard on something, to keep it totally in in your awareness.

Answer: boggling

The phrase "mind-boggling" seems to date from around 1964 to mean something overwhelming mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.

Answer: with this in mind

People saying this phrase mean that they have a basis on which to make further decisions. For example, a farmer might say, "With this in mind, I probably will plant my corn fifty feet west next year."
This phrase appears in 2 Thessalonians 1:11.

Answer: Time Out

This album went on to win the Album of the Year award in 1998. After enormous success with this album, Dylan got very sick with pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac of his heart.
Some people say that the title here refers to time free of memory. Others have found sources in a line from Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet," Act 1, Scene 4,

"Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night."

The phrase is also in the works of Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Thomas Harriot on the Algonquian Indians.

Answer: sound

The phrase "non compos mentis" refers to not being of sound mind.

"Of sound mind" is the phrase denoting that someone's all right; that is, that he or she is of hale body and sound mind. It brings out the idea of balance, of being in control and of feeling stable.

Compos mentis is the Latin which refers to being of "sound mind, memory and understanding."

An Australian Funk Band is called Compos Mentis; a Danish heavy metal band is called Compos Mentis.

Answer: beautiful

John Forbes Nash was a Nobel Laureate in Economics. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and delusions. Unlike in the movie "A Beautiful Mind", his delusions turned out to be principally auditory; additionally, in his life, he took no drugs.

Answer: off

"I've got a pocket full of money
And a pocket full of keys that have no bounds oh yeah
But when it comes down to lovin'
I just can't get you off of my mind
I just can't get you off of my mind."

"I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality." - Lenny Kravitz