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The Blurried Musings Pop Quiz

Take your time when answering the following questions, because you have all the time in the world. Grading will be based on a hyperelliptic, four dimensional curve.

1. Count the number of times you’ve heard the tongue twister “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” and subtract from it each instance you thought “Who gives a shit?”
2. In the movie Monkeybone, star Brendan Fraser has to spend time “reincarnated” in the body of Chris Kattan. Give some reasons why anyone would willingly do this.
3. Emetophobia is the fear of vomiting. Provide an anecdotal example when this fear would be hilariously funny to everyone, including a person with emetophobia.
4. It’s said that no two snowflakes are alike. In the unlikely event you were to come across two snowflakes that were identical, who would you contact to have this truism corrected?
5. Train A takes 3 hours and 15 minutes to reach its destination. Train B leaves 15 minutes earlier, but travels the same route in 3 hours and 30 minutes. Train C is ready to leave 45 minutes earlier, but sits at the station for 3 hours, then takes 1 hour for the trip. Which train do you really want to ride on?
6. Apples, or oranges?
7. Adrenalin is the substance produced by the human body when frightened or under some other form of stress. What is the substance it produces when a person is full of piss and vinegar?
8. Which of the Horse Latitudes is the most horse-like? Are either cow-like, and if so, to what degree?
9. The character Hamlet says in the Shakespeare play of the same name: “To be, or not to be - that is the question…” What is the answer?
10. What’s the Point?