Trivia Quiz: Philosophy Trivia

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Question 1: What TV comedy series featured a song about the drinking habits of various philosophers?

 A: Saturday Night Live
 B: Mad TV
 C: Monty Python's Flying Circus
 D: Laugh-In

Question 2: Who is considered to be the founder of modern philosophy?

 A: Friedrich Nietzsche
 B: Rene Descartes
 C: Nicolo Machiavelli
 D: Francis Bacon

Question 3: Which philosopher is thought by many to have written Shakespeare's plays?

 A: Francis Bacon
 B: William Godwin
 C: John Bagnell
 D: Rene Descartes

Question 4: "Thus Spake Zarathustra," a piece of music featured in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey," was also the title of a philosophical work by which author?

 A: Friedrich Nietzsche
 B: Rene Descartes
 C: Nicolo Machiavelli
 D: Francis Bacon

Question 5: Who originally said "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am")?

 A: Friedrich Nietzsche
 B: Rene Descartes
 C: Nicolo Machiavelli
 D: Francis Bacon

Question 6: Which ancient philosopher was a teacher to Alexander the Great?

 A: Plato
 B: Socrates
 C: Aristotle
 D: Plutarch

Question 7: What famous author wrote a philosophical work on Christian science?

 A: Mark Twain
 B: Lewis Carroll
 C: Jonathan Swift
 D: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 8: Which philosopher is best known for writing about gaining power by unscrupulous methods?

 A: Nietzsche
 B: Machiavelli
 C: Bacon
 D: Descartes

Question 9: Which philosopher, who also attempted to be a scientist, claimed that men have more teeth than women do?

 A: Socrates
 B: Plato
 C: Aristotle
 D: Plutarch

Question 10: According to the BBC, who is the greatest philosopher of all time?

 A: Aristotle
 B: Frederich Nietzsche
 C: Melvyn Bragg
 D: Herbert Spencer



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