Philosopher trivia

You may know their ideas, but do you know about them as a person?
Give correct answers to questions asked. It's that simple.
Sources: dusty old philosophy books, bios and, less dusty, wiki.
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Albert Camus played football. What was his position?
goalkeeper
Name one of Plato's siblings (incl. half brother).
Glaucon, Adeimantus, Potone or Antiphon
Epicurus died a slow and painful death due to...
bladder stone
Nietzsche was an amateur composer mocked by this professional composer:
Richard Wagner / Hans von Bülow
Jeremy Bentham got the idea for Panopticon while visiting his brother in...
White Russia
What did Simone de Beauvoir (allegedly) do to young girls she was teaching?
groom / seduce
While most women of her time preferred anonymity, Margaret Cavendish claimed authorship with ____ engraved on the cover of her works.
her portrait
One of Slavoj Žižek's four wives (so far) was a model from which country?
Argentina
René Descartes served as a mercenary in which country's army?
Dutch Republic
How many children Arthur Schopenhauer had out-of-wedlock?
two
Kim Hyung-suk, the philosopher of life, dreams, meaning (of life) and happiness was acquainted with which East Asian leader?
Kim Il-Sung
In which game would you find Avicenna aka Ibn Sina as "a Great Person for the Abbasid civilization"?
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Diogenes once said "If Manes can live without Diogenes, why not Diogenes without Manes?" - What was Manes to Diogenes?
slave
Bertrand Russell stated he owed his life to smoking after surviving an airplane crash on his way to (city or country)?
Trondheim / Norway
Which eating utensil did Søren Kierkegaard's father call his son?
The Fork
He Yan helped his warlord stepdaddy interpret which famous military text?
The Art of War
Pyotr Chaadayev dared criticize Russia of his time and ended up being possibly the first dissenter ever pronounced legally ______
insane
George Gurdjieff was rumored to take part in the 19th century Russian versus British empire rivalry over Central Asia known as...
The Great Game
Xenophon was a mercenary in a group called... (Hint: It's a big number.)
The Ten Thousand
Emil Cioran was a glass half _____ kind of guy, to the max!
empty
The self taught Thomas Henry Huxley was known as whose Bulldog? (Hint: D)
Darwin
Laozi composed Dào Dé Jīng, dropped the mic and withdrew (direction).
west
Like Laozi, Liezi was from this intellectual brewing province:
Henan
Thomas Aquinas fancied Christianity "wrong" to his family's liking. Consequently, they produced a scheme to snap him out of it. They kidnapped him, imprisoned him and hired a prostitute to make him quit ________.
celibacy
John Dewey lectured in China, earning the title "American _________", the followers of whom promptly ignored the teachings.
Confucius
Secundus the Silent was into the proposition that every woman is a harlot. To test this, he went home unrecognizable, paid 50 gold to ______ to sleep with him, as you do. As a consequence, she hung herself and he took a vow of silence.
his mother
Tominaga Nakamoto's favorite saying goes: "______ is the beginning of lying and stealing".
hiding
Khana, besides advocating not eating too much, liked her food with a little bit of bitter and a little bit of ____.
salt
Saint Augustine of Hippo fornicated for 15 years in the city of:
Carthage
Zeno of Citium declined the citizenship of:
Athens
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