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A multiple-choice quiz by uglybird. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
uglybird

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

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182,997

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. Fact: General Eisenhower was besieged with demands to fire this controversial American general and tank commander when the controversial general struck a soldier who had been hospitalized for "battle fatigue."

Quote: "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." Hint

George Marshall

Ulysses S. Grant

George S. Patton

Douglas MacArthur

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Question 2 of 10

2. Fact: For his work on the atom he received the Nobel Prize - in chemistry.

Quote: "All science is physics or stamp collecting." Hint

J. J. Thompson

Max Planck

Ernest Rutherford

Werner Heisenberg

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Question 3 of 10

3. Fact: A successful football coach at USC where his players included O. J. Simpson, he went on to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, losing his first 26 games as coach there.

Quote: When asked after a loss about his team's execution he said, "I'm all for it." Hint

John Robinson

John McKay

Vince Lombardi

Bill Walsh

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Question 4 of 10

4. Fact: With five books in the BBC's Big Read Top 200 (2004), this author's most beloved character is Death.

Quote: "As far as I'm aware I'm not specifically banned anywhere in the USA, and am rather depressed about it. Surely some of you guys can do something?" Hint

Terry Pratchett

J. K. Rowling

Douglas Adams

Terry Brooks

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Question 5 of 10

5. Fact: His band, the Mothers of Invention, produced what is believed to be the first rock and roll two-album set.

Quote: "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." Hint

Tom Lehrer

Frank Zappa

Eric Andersen

Tom Paxton

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Question 6 of 10

6. Fact: Although reputedly diminutive in stature, this great general led his forces to a number of improbable victories before being ultimately defeated by a coalition of European states.

Quote: " History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon."
Hint

Emperor Constantine I

Ghengis Khan

Napoleon Bonaparte

Adolph Hitler

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Question 7 of 10

7. Fact: This famous psychologist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud developed his own theory of the unconscious and pioneered the technique of free association.

Quote: "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." Hint

B. F. Skinner

Alfred Adler

Carl Rogers

Carl Jung

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Question 8 of 10

8. Fact: He was the attorney for the defense at the Scopes monkey trial.

Quote: "The trouble with law is lawyers." Hint

Clarence Darrow

Oliver Wendell Holmes

William Jennings Bryan

John Marshall

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Question 9 of 10

9. Fact: His first celebrated poem bore the unlikely title of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948.

Quote: "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal." Hint

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound

T. S. Eliot

Bertrand Russell

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Question 10 of 10

10. Fact: He was the American president responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.

Quote: "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Hint

Thomas Jefferson

James Monroe

Alexander Hamilton

James Madison

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Fact: General Eisenhower was besieged with demands to fire this controversial American general and tank commander when the controversial general struck a soldier who had been hospitalized for "battle fatigue." Quote: "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

Answer: George S. Patton

George S. Patton is generally credited with revolutionizing the use of armor in warfare. When questioned about the slapping incident he offered, "I love and admire good soldiers and brave men. I hate and despise slackers and cowards."

2. Fact: For his work on the atom he received the Nobel Prize - in chemistry. Quote: "All science is physics or stamp collecting."

Answer: Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand born Ernest Rutherford was the quintessential physicist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Combining Rutherford's meticulous experimentation with Planck's quantum theory allowed Neils Bohr to formulate the nuclear model of the atom.

3. Fact: A successful football coach at USC where his players included O. J. Simpson, he went on to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, losing his first 26 games as coach there. Quote: When asked after a loss about his team's execution he said, "I'm all for it."

Answer: John McKay

John McKay was a spectacularly successful college coach who endured a 26 game losing streak after taking over the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Prior to a game with the then dominant Pittsburgh Steelers, he informed his team that if they played their best possible game and the Steelers played their worst that his team would still lose.

4. Fact: With five books in the BBC's Big Read Top 200 (2004), this author's most beloved character is Death. Quote: "As far as I'm aware I'm not specifically banned anywhere in the USA, and am rather depressed about it. Surely some of you guys can do something?"

Answer: Terry Pratchett

Starting with "The Carpet People," which he wrote at age 17, Terry Pratchett has now published over thirty-five novels, most of which concern the Discworld. In addition, Terry has penned two trilogies for children. Pratchett is an indefatigable book signer, and some have speculated that unsigned copies of his works may ultimately be more rare than autographed copies.

5. Fact: His band, the Mothers of Invention, produced what is believed to be the first rock and roll two-album set. Quote: "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

Answer: Frank Zappa

"Freak Out" was released in 1966. I "discovered" the album in a Woolworth's bargain bin in 1967. This might have pleased Frank Zappa, who was contemptuous of commercial success.

6. Fact: Although reputedly diminutive in stature, this great general led his forces to a number of improbable victories before being ultimately defeated by a coalition of European states. Quote: " History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon."

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

At autopsy Bonaparte was measured as five feet two inches, according to French standard of measurement. It is claimed that this would translate into five feet six and one half inches in current American/British measure.

7. Fact: This famous psychologist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud developed his own theory of the unconscious and pioneered the technique of free association. Quote: "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Answer: Carl Jung

In addition to his theories of the unconscious, Jung also developed a theory of personality and introduced the concepts of introversion and extroversion. He broke with Freud on Freud's insistence on explaining psychology in almost entirely sexual terms.

8. Fact: He was the attorney for the defense at the Scopes monkey trial. Quote: "The trouble with law is lawyers."

Answer: Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow was a self-proclaimed agnostic and a celebrated criminal defense attorney. On occasion, Darrow refused to defend a person based on his personal dislike of them. The movie account of the Scopes trial, "Inherit the Wind," featured Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond, who was based on Clarence Darrow.

9. Fact: His first celebrated poem bore the unlikely title of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Quote: "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal."

Answer: T. S. Eliot

T. S. Elliot was educated at Harvard University. He became friends with British poet Ezra Pound as well as British Philosopher Bertrand Russell. Most consider "The Waste Land" to be his most significant work.

10. Fact: He was the American president responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. Quote: "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was not a fan of newspapers. He also quipped, "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper," and "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

Source: Author uglybird

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