'Pataphysics!

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1. 'Pataphysics is a branch of philosophy founded by which French author of "Ubu Roi"? Erik Satie Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Duchamp Alfred Jarry

2. The author once said that 'pataphysics is the study of everything lying beyond which of these fields? Physics Metaphysics Absurdism Patapsychology

3. Which of these is not a real department at the London Institute of 'Pataphysics? Committee for Hirsutism and Pogonotrophy Department of Hagiography Department of Potassons Office of Patentry

4. Which of these Beatles songs mentions 'pataphysics? There's a Place Maxwell's Silver Hammer Misery A Day in the Life

5. True or False: The word 'pataphysics has an apostrophe on the beginning of it because the apostrophe was the author's favorite form of punctuation. True False

6. Which of these writers is or was not a member of the Paris-based "College de 'pataphysique"? Albert Camus Latis Luc Etienne Raymond Queneau

7. What French literary organization, an acronym for "Ouvroir de literature potentielle" (Workshop of Potential Literature), was founded as a subcommittee to the College de 'pataphysique'? Answer: (One Word;)

8. Which of these countries does not contain an organization affiliated with 'pataphysics? Mongolia Papua New Guinea France Canada

9. What is a correct term for a practitioner of 'pataphysics? 'Pataphysiphilian 'Pataphor 'Pataphysician Transcendental Satrap

10. Thinking about the question in a straightforward and wholly un-'pataphysical viewpoint, which of these is farthest from being a practitioner of 'pataphysics? Umberto Eco Paul Erdos Marcel Duchamp Rube Golberg