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World Thinkers 2013 - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 22 times
- The average score is 6 of 25
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Atheist, biologist, author, "The Selfish Gene", meme, "The God Delusioin" | Richard Dawkins | 85%
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| Physicist, "________ Boson" CERN proved him correct, expected to be given a Nobel this year | Peter Higgs | 70%
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| Psychologist, linguist, cognitive scientist, "The Better Angels of Our Nature" "The Language Instinct" "The Blank Slate" "The Stuff of Thought" | Steven Pinker | 45%
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| "Guns, Germs, and Steel" "Collapse" "The World Until Yesterday" | Jared Diamond | 40%
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| Indian writer and political activist, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things", now writes on the status of women, corporate corruption and Kashmiri independence | Arundhati Roy | 35%
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| Neurologists, "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" "Awakenings" "Hallucinations" | Oliver Sacks | 35%
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| Keynesian economist, Nobel prize winner, critic of austerity, NYT columnist | Paul Krugman | 35%
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| Lacanian psychoanalysis, most annoying philospher alive, | Slavoj Zizek | 35%
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| Chinese artist, knows for his work on the "Birds Nest" for the Olympics and "Sunflower Seeds" at the Tate, arrested and jailed by the Chinese in 2011 for 88 days | Ai WeiWei | 30%
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| Statistician, political blogger and NYT columnist, correctly predicted all 50 states in the 2010 election, "The Signal and the Noise" | Nate Silver | 30%
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| "Thinking Fast and Slow", psychologist, behaviorial economist, Nobel in 2002 | Daniel Kahneman | 20%
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| South African-American entrepreneur and inventor, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors | Elon Musk | 20%
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| Former director of UN International Atomic Energy agency, Nobel peace prize 2005, led opposition to President Morsi of Egypt, possible PM of Egypt | Mohamed El Baradei | 15%
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| Conservative British financial historian, "Civilization: The West and the Rest", best example of an arrogant academic, professor at Harvard | Niall Ferguson | 15%
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| Developmental economist, social choice theory, Nobel in 1998, argues against austerity | Amartya Sen | 10%
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| American journalist, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "Gulag" "Iron Curtain", Pulitzer Prize, married to the Polish Foreign Minister | Anne Applebaum | 10%
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| South Korean economist, now at Cambridge, "23 Things They Didn't Tell You About Capitalism", highly critical of free market economics | Ha Joon Chang | 10%
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| Swedish statistician and physician, co-founded Médecins sans Frontières, Trendalyzer software for the anaysis of statistics was purchased by Google in 2007. | Hans Rosling | 10%
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| Iranian film director, "About Elly" "A Separation", won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film and nominated for Best Screenplay | Asghar Farhadi | 5%
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| American philosophy professor at Harvard know for his "Justice" course available free online, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limites of the Market" | Michael Sandel | 5%
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| World Bank and later Minister of Trade, Finance and Defence in post Hussien Iraq, "The Crisis of Islamic Civilization" | Ali Allawi | 0%
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| Professor at Columbia, Berkeley and John Hopkins, economist at World Bank, now Finance Minister of his native Afghanistan | Ashraf Ghani | 0%
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| American geneticist and entrepreneur, one of the first to sequence the human genome, working on synthetic life forms | Craig Venter | 0%
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| Professor of philosophy and law at University of Chicago, "The Fragility of Goodness" "The New Religious Intolerance" | Martha Nussbaum | 0%
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| Physicist, Nobel 1979, propoent of final theory, "Cosmology" "Lake Views" | Steven Weinberg | 0%
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