Thanks for the feedback on my quiz for Scientology staffers. I've added five new questions and made some minor corrections to the original ten. The revised version appears below.

Kristi, Roger, and everyone else: you are more than welcome to use this quiz on your web sites. But I do hope someone out there will print this thing out (without the answers) and get some Org staffers to take a shot at it. I'd love to hear what happens when they try to find the answers.

-- Dave Touretzky

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Scientology Quiz

Every Scientologist should be familiar with the life of L. Ron Hubbard. Here are fifteen questions whose answers you should know. If you don't know some of them, search for the answers on the Church of Scientology's web site. If you can't find an answer there, then try a Google search.

1. Who were Margaret Louise (Polly) Grubb, Sara Elizabeth (Betty) Northrup, and Mary Sue Whipp?

2. What were the names of L. Ron Hubbard's seven children?

3. What became of Quentin Hubbard?

4. Where did L. Ron Hubbard go to school, and what degrees did he earn?

5. Give the exact dates and places L. Ron Hubbard was wounded in action during his World War II service in the Navy. What injuries did he sustain on each date?

6. List the actual medals and honors L. Ron Hubbard received during his military service.

7. One reason the public was so eager to get its hands on "Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health" when it appeared in May of 1950 was a magazine article Hubbard had published the previous month, with the enthusiastic suport of the magazine's editor. This article later became the book "Dianetics: Evolution of a Science". What was the magazine, who was the editor, and what became of him?

8. Who wrote the introduction to Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, and what became of him?

9. In the early editions of Dianetics, Hubbard included an appendix by an electrical engineer. What was in the appendix and who was the author?

10. Who was the first clear, and what became of him or her?

11. What pen name did "Nibs" Hubbard use, and who was his co-author?

12. Whom did L. Ron Hubbard personally appoint in 1979 to the newly-created post of Senior C/S (Case Supervisor) International, and what became of him?

13. Which church official told the press, speaking of Mary Sue Hubbard in 1979, "Certainly she is second in all of our hearts"? What became of this official?

14. How long did Mary Sue Hubbard spend in prison, and why was she there?

15. Who is Alexis Hollister, and how was she described in L. Ron Hubbard's last will and testament?

Special bonus questions:

1. Where does David Miscavige live?

2. When David Miscavige retires or dies, how will his successor be chosen?

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Answers:

1. The first, second, and third wives of L. Ron Hubbard.

2. Alexis, Arthur, Diana, Katherine, L. Ron Jr. (Nibs), Quentin, and Suzette.

3. Quentin Hubbard committed suicide in 1976.

4. Hubbard attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC for two years; he never earned a degree. During his naval service he attended a training school held on the Princeton University campus, but did not take courses at Princeton. He later claimed a doctorate from Sequioa University [HCOPL 14 Feb 1966, "Doctor Title Abolished"]. Sequoia was a mail order diploma mill that was eventually shut down by a Los Angeles judge. He also proclaimed himself to be a "Doctor of Scientology".

5. None: L. Ron Hubbard never saw combat.

6. American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. These were routine medals given to everyone who served in those theaters during WW II. Hubbard did not receive any purple hearts (he was never injured) nor any commendations for merit, valor, bravery, etc. Details at http://ronthewarhero.org

7. Astounding Science Fiction. Its editor, John W. Campbell, was an early Hubbard supporter, but broke with him later that year due to the way Hubbard conducted himself.

8. The introduction to Dianetics was written by Dr. Joseph A. Winter, who later broke with Hubbard and denounced him in a 1951 book called "A Doctor's Report on Dianetics". Winter's introduction has been deleted from reprint editions of the book.

9. The appendix contained circuit diagrams of the analytical and reactive minds. Its author was Donald H. Rogers one of Hubbard's early supporters and intellectual collaborators, along with Winter.

10. Several people have been declared the first clear. One was Sonia Bianca, a college student, who failed a public demonstration of her purported abilities in Los Angeles in 1950, and promptly disappeared from public view. Scientology staff member John McMaster was annointed the "first real clear" by Hubbard in 1963. McMaster was later declared a "suppressive person".

11. Nibs Hubbard (L. Ron Jr.) was listed as co-author, under the name Ronald DeWolfe, of the book "L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?" The principal author was Bent Corydon. Later editions of the book list only Corydon.

12. David Mayo was the first Senior C/S Int, and was later found by a US court to be a co-author of NOTs, or New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans. He left Scientology and started a squirrel group, the Advanced Ability Center.

13. Henning Heldt, described as the top church officer in the US at the time, as reported in the Washington Post on August 18, 1978. Heldt went to prison along with Mary Sue.

14. Mary Sue spent about a year in federal prison. She was convicted of stealing government documents, intercepting government communications, harboring a fugitive, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

15. Born March 8, 1950, Alexis Valerie Hubbard (later Hollister) is L. Ron Hubbard's daughter by his second wife, Sara Northrup Hubbard Hollister. Hubbard boasted to the press that the red-haired Alexis was the first "Dianetics baby", but after divorcing Sara, he denied that he was Alexis' father. He repeated this denial in his will, and explicitly disinherited her.

Bonus answers:

1. David Miscavige lives at Scientology's armed compound in Hemet, California, known as "Gold Base".

2. No one knows how Miscavige's successor will be chosen. There does not appear to be any formal succession mechanism.

Subject: Re: updated Scientology quiz
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
From: (Dave Touretzky)
Message-ID: <425b6aaf$1@news2.lightlink.com>
Date: 12 Apr 2005 02:29:03 -0400

In article <FZmdnfQkra6fw8bfRVn-tA@comcast.com>, ewsnead <ewsnead1@comcast.net> wrote: >
>One small correction, Dave. I believe Hubbard attended George Washington
>University rather than the Jesuit based Georgetown. Back in the 1930's,
>unlike today, not very many non-Catholics gained admissions to the latter.
>And Hubbard was Protestant, to be sure.

Yes, of course you're right! A silly slip of the keyboard on my part. I've corrected my master copy, and I hope that anyone webbing this quiz will make a similar correction. Also, change "ten questions" to "fifteen questions" in the introductory paragraph.

Now let's get out there and DELIVER this "golden age of quiz" technology to those poor brainwashed Scientology staffers who so desperately need it!

-- Dave Touretzky

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