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'Pataphysics!

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Philosophy : 'Pataphysics!

Introduction:
"So what the heck is 'pataphysics anyway? Take this quiz and find out!"


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


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


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


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


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 litterature 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?
    'Pataphor
    'Pataphysiphilian
    Transcendental Satrap
    'Pataphysician


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


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