• 1. 
    Which philosopher was considered the ugliest man in Athens?

  • Empedocles
  • Democritus
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • 2. 
    Which philosopher was clinically insane for the last 11 years of his life?

  • William James
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 3. 
    Which philosopher declared, “Let not doctrines and ideas be your guide. The Führer is Germany’s only reality and law”?

  • Herbert Marcuse
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Hannah Arendt
  • 4. 
    Which world-renowned philosopher reportedly threatened a visiting colleague with a red-hot poker at a meeting of the Aristotelian Society at the University of Cambridge in 1946?

  • J.L. Austin
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • A.J. Ayer
  • G.E. Moore
  • 5. 
    Which philosopher saved fashion model Naomi Campbell from likely sexual assault by boxer Mike Tyson at a party in New York City in 1987?

  • J.L. Austin
  • A.J. Ayer
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • G.E. Moore
  • 6. 
    Which philosopher was imprisoned by the British government in 1918 for campaigning against war and conscription?

  • C.D. Broad
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Gilbert Ryle
  • Frank Ramsey
  • 7. 
    Which towering 20th-century mathematician and philosopher starved himself to death because of his paranoid belief that someone was poisoning his food?

  • Gottlob Frege
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Kurt Gödel
  • Georg Cantor
  • 8. 
    Which philosopher was regularly required to rise before 5 AM to give philosophy lessons to Queen Christina of Sweden?

  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Benedict de Spinoza
  • René Descartes
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • 9. 
    Which philosopher was forcibly castrated after he fathered a child by, and secretly married, the niece of a prominent Paris clergyman?

  • Peter Abelard
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • St. Anselm of Canterbury
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
  • 10. 
    Which philosopher was killed by being stripped, beaten, dragged, mutilated, and burned by a Christian mob?

  • Plotinus
  • Philo Judaeus
  • Boethius
  • Hypatia
  • 11. 
    Which philosopher declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964?

  • Jean Genet
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Albert Camus
  • 12. 
    Which philosopher was ordered to commit suicide by the Roman emperor Nero?

  • Sextus Empiricus
  • Plotinus
  • Zeno
  • Seneca
  • 13. 
    Which philosopher forbade his followers from eating beans?

  • Thales
  • Anaxagoras
  • Pythagoras
  • Heraclitus
  • 14. 
    Which philosopher's headless skeleton, dressed in his own clothes, is displayed in a glass case at University College London?

  • Edmund Burke
  • James Mill
  • Jeremy Bentham
  • John Stuart Mill
  • 15. 
    Which philosopher was known for his profound dislike of humanity and his fondness for poodles?

  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Georg Wihelm Friedrich Hegel
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