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Odd Facts About Philosophers Quiz
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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