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CLASSROOM ACTIVIES
continued from No. 1, 3, 4, 5/2007

Streeeetch Your Mind!

Please read each question carefully and select the correct answer. The answer key will be provided in the upcoming issue.

WHO SAID IT?

1. Who said it?: “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

a) William S. Burroughs
b) Hunter S. Thompson
c) Johnny Depp
d) Howard Hughes

2. Who said this about an outbreak of typhus during the Russian Revolution?: “Either socialism will defeat the louse, or the louse will defeat socialism.”

a) Lenin
b) Karl Marx
c) Stalin
d) Trotsky

3. Who said it?: “Eureka, Eureka, I have found it!”

a) Euclid
b) Archimedes
c) Zeus
d) Marie-Antoinette
e) Louis XVI
f) Socrates

4. Who wrote it?: “If music be the food of love, play on...”

a) Alexander Pope
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) John Keats
d) John Milton
e) William Shakespeare

5. Who said it?: “Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.”

a) Thomas Edison
b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Albert Einstein
d) Stephan Hawking

6. Who said it?: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and this is not being talked about.”

a) Dorothy Parker
b) William Faulkner
c) Jerry Springer
d) Oscar Wilde

7. Who said it?: “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

a) Groucho Marx
b) Charlie Chaplin
c) Woody Allen
d) W.C. Fields
e) Robin Williams

8. Who said it?: “I don’t even know what street Canada is on.”

a) Puff Daddy
b) Al Capone
c) Prince Charles
d) Robert DeNiro
e) Abraham Lincoln

9. Who said it?: “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.”

a) Rousseau
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Albert Kinsey
d) Mahatma Gandhi
e) Voltaire

10. Who said it?: “A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.”

a) Elizabeth Taylor
b) Humphrey Bogart
c) Zsa Zsa Gabor
d) Mae West
e) Marilyn Monroe


Key to No. 5

Answers:

Vocabulary Builder

1. b) Sausages and potatoes; 2. a) A human; 3. b) Wrinkled; 4. d) Quarrelsome; 5. a) At sea; 6. c) A teacher; 7. b) Penury; 8. b) Gloomy; 9. d) An uncle; 10. d) Zaftig; 11. b) Belligerent

to be continued