| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| superman? | N | Nietzsche | 74%
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| was a real pissant | K | Kant | 66%
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| never put him before the horse | D | Descartes | 56%
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| nefarious Nazi | H | Heidegger | 56%
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| It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both | M | Machiavelli | 54%
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| "Common sense is not so common" | V | Voltaire | 50%
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| Indian meditative exercise | Y | Yoga | 50%
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| Achilles and the Tortoise | Z | Zeno | 50%
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| has a European exchange programme named after him | E | Erasmus | 49%
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| wrote his major work while fighting in the trenches during WWI | W | Wittgenstein | 48%
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| known for his razor | O | Ockham | 46%
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| liked to wager | P | Pascal | 45%
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| The banality of evil | A | Arendt | 42%
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| "A History of Madness" | F | Foucault | 37%
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| He 'say' | C | Confucius | 36%
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| Logician | Q | Quine | 33%
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| 6th century 'consoler' | B | Boethius | 28%
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| political activist, pacifist | G | Gandhi | 27%
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| Pragmatist | J | James | 25%
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| I don't care that he's not a Christian | R | Russell | 23%
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| Advised his readers to swallow a toad every morning | S | Schopenhauer | 17%
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| the face of the other | L | Levinas | 15%
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| Spanish philosopher, novelist and poet | U | Unamuno | 13%
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| (arguably) the first philosopher of religion | X | Xenophanes | 9%
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| "Sex and Genealogies" | I | Irigaray | 7%
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| might makes right | T | Thrasymachus | 1%
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