General Questions You Ought to Know

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1. A philosopher with a childhood nickname of 'the Fork', writing often in the name 'Johannes Climacus'...is better known to us as? Kierkegaard Wolf Nietzsche John Locke

2. Who was the richest man of all time? King Solomon Bill Gates Howqua Brunei

3. What was the name of the empire ruled by Saladin? Nur al Din Zengid Aleppa Mahgrib

4. The religion of Jainism is said to eternal, revealed to humans by prophets called 'Tirthankaras'. Who was the first prophet of Jainism? Parsva Digamba Mahavira Rishabha

5. Who said 'Thought is the thought of thought'? Emerson Baudrillard Nietzsche Aristotle

6. Which of the angels from the Bible, Genesis, was first characterized as both female and male? Shechinah Shandrabtha Gabriel Ariel

7. Poet: 'Love is the possibility for each other to veil his destiny to the Other'. Rilke Schiller Goethe Kierkegaard

8. In which Greek play does Polyneices declare that free speech does not exist? Hippolytus Electra Bacchae The Phoenician Women

9. What famous philosopher said ...'Pity, in a man who lives according to the guidance of reason, is evil of itself and useless.'..? Kant Socrates Spinoza Plato

10. According to La Bruyere, what quality fits here.... '_______, does not produce a kindness of heart, justice, complaceny, or gratitude; but gives man the least appearance of it, and makes him most externally what he really ought to be' virtue politeness mask love