Q 01/05

Which word stood where 'curiosity' now sits in the cat proverb that Ben Jonson printed in 1598?

A) Greed

B) Care

C) Pride

D) Sloth

Answer · why

B) Care

Care, meaning worry, killed the cat in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing; 'curiosity' only took over in...

Q 02/05

'Money is the root of all evil' drops which word from 1 Timothy 6:10, which condemns 'the ___ of money'?

A) Love

B) Lust

C) Pursuit

D) Worship

Answer · why

A) Love

Love of money, not money itself, is 'the root of all evil' in the King James text; Paul's Greek word is philargyria, literally silver-loving.

Q 03/05

Which bomber's manifesto gave him away partly by using 'eat your cake and have it too', the older word order?

A) Timothy McVeigh

B) Eric Rudolph

C) Ted Kaczynski

D) Terry Nichols

Answer · why

C) Ted Kaczynski

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, had written the reversed form in a letter to his mother, and FBI linguist James Fitzgerald's match helped name him.

Q 04/05

Fred R. Barnard coined 'a picture is worth a thousand words' in 1921 for a journal serving which trade?

A) Advertising

B) Journalism

C) Photography

D) Publishing

Answer · why

A) Advertising

Advertising man Barnard called the line a Chinese proverb 'so that people would take it seriously', and it is still pinned on Confucius.

Q 05/05

Which First Lady's 1996 book took its title from the proverb 'It takes a village to raise a child'?

A) Rosalynn Carter

B) Laura Bush

C) Hillary Clinton

D) Michelle Obama

Answer · why

C) Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton's It Takes a Village called the line an African proverb, yet no evidence ties that exact saying to any African culture.