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1.

What three-letter abbreviation, placed at the end of a proof, stands for "what was to be proven"?

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Answer: Q.E.D.
2.

In what work by Voltaire is the hero expelled from "the best of all possible castles"?

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Answer: Candide
3.

What comedy troupe name-checked numerous philosophers in their "Bruce's Philosophers Song"?

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Answer: Monty Python
4.

What philosophical position consists of a definite belief in the non-existence of gods or deities?

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Answer: Atheism
5.

Rene Descartes' statement "Cogito, ergo sum" means what?

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Answer: I Think, Therefore I Am
6.

What Scottish philosopher and economist spoke of an "invisible hand" guiding the market?

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Answer: Adam Smith
7.

Whose book "The Prince" dealt with methods for acquiring and retaining power?

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Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli
8.

What word, paired with collective, featured prominently in the work of Carl Jung?

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Answer: Unconscious
9.

Whose "Wager" or "Gambit" gives an analytical justification for believing in God?

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Answer: Blaise Pascal's
10.

What Bill Watterson comic strip featured two characters named for famous thinkers?

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Answer: Calvin And Hobbes
11.

What writer composed philosophical texts as well as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?

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Answer: Lewis Carroll
12.

Who wrote "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto"?

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Answer: Karl Marx
13.

By what name are the collected sayings of Confucius and his followers known?

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Answer: The Analects
14.

Who described life as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"?

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Answer: Thomas Hobbes
15.

What philosophical "blade" encourages one to prefer simple explanations when they fit the evidence?

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Answer: Occam's Razor
16.

What philosopher wrote the famous work "On Liberty"?

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Answer: John Stuart Mill
17.

What "dismal" thinker believed that human populations inevitably outstrip food supplies?

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Answer: Thomas Robert Malthus
18.

What Greek philosopher known for his triangle-related "Theorem" had numerically-obsessed followers?

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Answer: Pythagoras
19.

What medieval philosopher fell in love with and secretly married his student, Heloise?

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Answer: Peter Abelard
20.

Who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason"?

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Answer: Immanuel Kant
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What philosophical "-ism" is closely associated with writer Ayn Rand?

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Answer: Objectivism
22.

Who famously said: "Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward."?

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Answer: Soren Kierkegaard
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