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Philosopher trivia - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 2 times
- The average score is 9 of 30
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| The self taught Thomas Henry Huxley was known as whose Bulldog? (Hint: D) | Darwin | 100%
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| Emil Cioran was a glass half _____ kind of guy, to the max! | empty | 100%
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| Albert Camus played football. What was his position? | goalkeeper | 100%
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| Nietzsche was an amateur composer mocked by this professional composer: | Richard Wagner / Hans von Bülow | 100%
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| In which game would you find Avicenna aka Ibn Sina as "a Great Person for the Abbasid civilization"? | Sid Meier's Civilization VII | 100%
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| He Yan helped his warlord stepdaddy interpret which famous military text? | The Art of War | 100%
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| Which eating utensil did Søren Kierkegaard's father call his son? | The Fork | 100%
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| George Gurdjieff was rumored to take part in the 19th century Russian versus British empire rivalry over Central Asia known as... | The Great Game | 100%
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| Laozi composed Dào Dé Jīng, dropped the mic and withdrew (direction). | west | 100%
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| One of Slavoj Žižek's four wives (so far) was a model from which country? | Argentina | 0%
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| Zeno of Citium declined the citizenship of: | Athens | 0%
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| Epicurus died a slow and painful death due to... | bladder stone | 0%
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| Saint Augustine of Hippo fornicated for 15 years in the city of: | Carthage | 0%
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| 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 | 0%
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| John Dewey lectured in China, earning the title "American _________", the followers of whom promptly ignored the teachings. | Confucius | 0%
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| René Descartes served as a mercenary in which country's army? | Dutch Republic | 0%
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| Name one of Plato's siblings (incl. half brother). | Glaucon, Adeimantus, Potone or Antiphon | 0%
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| What did Simone de Beauvoir (allegedly) do to young girls she was teaching? | groom / seduce | 0%
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| Like Laozi, Liezi was from this intellectual brewing province: | Henan | 0%
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| While most women of her time preferred anonymity, Margaret Cavendish claimed authorship with ____ engraved on the cover of her works. | her portrait | 0%
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| Tominaga Nakamoto's favorite saying goes: "______ is the beginning of lying and stealing". | hiding | 0%
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| 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 | 0%
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| Pyotr Chaadayev dared criticize Russia of his time and ended up being possibly the first dissenter ever pronounced legally ______ | insane | 0%
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| Kim Hyung-suk, the philosopher of life, dreams, meaning (of life) and happiness was acquainted with which East Asian leader? | Kim Il-Sung | 0%
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| Khana, besides advocating not eating too much, liked her food with a little bit of bitter and a little bit of ____. | salt | 0%
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| Diogenes once said "If Manes can live without Diogenes, why not Diogenes without Manes?" - What was Manes to Diogenes? | slave | 0%
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| Xenophon was a mercenary in a group called... (Hint: It's a big number.) | The Ten Thousand | 0%
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| Bertrand Russell stated he owed his life to smoking after surviving an airplane crash on his way to (city or country)? | Trondheim / Norway | 0%
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| How many children Arthur Schopenhauer had out-of-wedlock? | two | 0%
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| Jeremy Bentham got the idea for Panopticon while visiting his brother in... | White Russia | 0%
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