Alrighty then…ready for a quiz?

Can you quote a Confucian analect?

Who or what might Occam refer to?

Which author wrote …" but in contentment I still feel the need for some imperishable bliss"?

Stumped? Googled for clues? Swore you'd never need to know the answers to stuff like this after your SAT's or GMAT's?

Want to know where I got these ditties from?

I've come across them on the meet your honey, baby, sweetie on line dating sites. You had thought, perhaps, that the one and only reason you are meandering through the myriad of profiles is to find your soul mate.  

That used to be the reason.

A more sensible, practical and, it appears, an ultimately more satisfying reason is the opportunity to test your intellectual mettle …You read a particular profile, they have made a literary reference, can you figure it out, remember who might have said it, retrieve the information as to "where do I know that from…??"

And furthermore, once you retrieve the information, can you, demonstrating wit and style, write a pithy comeback acknowledging that you, perhaps one of the few, got the reference?

Or do as both Emily and I do… Immortalize them and their questions on a blog.