The Devil's Dictionary

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Dictionary, n. 'A malevolent literary device for cramping growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This ___________ however, is a most useful work.' Answer: (One Word)

2. What is 'Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need, for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.'? Economy Stupidity Poverty Cheerful

3. What is 'A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral expenses to the other expenses of living.'? Asp Adder Python Rattlesnake

4. Infancy, n. 'The period of our lives when according to ___________ 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.' Wordsworth Browning Keats Shelley

5. What is 'A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.'? Retirement village Boudoir Convent Swimming pool

6. What is 'An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.'? Car Telephone Email Alcohol

7. Callous, adj. 'Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.' Is this definition, according to Bierce, true or false? Answer: (True or False)

8. Cemetery, n. 'An isolated suburban spot where...' mourners match lies all of these poets write at a target stone-cutters spell for a wager

9. What is a 'Court Fool'? Jester Plaintiff Boyfriend Janitor

10. What is 'One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to...'? A Supralapsarian An Infralapsarian A Superlapsarian A Sublapsarian