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Quiz about Peace
Quiz about Peace

Peace Trivia Quiz


Peace means not only the absence of war but also the state of mental tranquility. Here is what a variety of people had to say about peace.

A multiple-choice quiz by Rehaberpro. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Rehaberpro
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
369,852
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
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1051
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Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who later became president of his country, had this to say about peace:

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

What was the name of the South African leader that became his partner?
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Question 2 of 10
2. Who was the Trappist monk who made this observation in the twentieth century?

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
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Question 3 of 10
3. Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist. He was not a politician, a soldier, or world traveler. In his lifetime, he was not highly regarded but future generations began to see his works as profoundly significant. In "Walden Pond" (1854) he advocated a simple life in harmony with nature. What was the central core idea in "Civil Disobedience"(1849)?
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Question 4 of 10
4. What 'common sense' patriot had this to say in the context of the American Revolution?

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
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Question 5 of 10
5. Which man who was Pope from 1978 to 2005 made this observation?

"Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being"
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Question 6 of 10
6. Who was the late night talk show host who summed up inner peace this way? (Ed McMahon could tell you).


"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
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Question 7 of 10
7. Disabled people often cannot correct the disability but may find effective means to compensate. Which famed Cambridge Professor of Physics and Cosmology who opined this?

"My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically."
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Question 8 of 10
8. Inner peace can be found in many forms. What popular actor found his this way?

"It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use"
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Question 9 of 10
9. This quotation is from a German philosopher who had great influence on such people as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini:

"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness,to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
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Question 10 of 10
10. Here are a few lines from a popular poem. Do you remember the name?

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story."
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who later became president of his country, had this to say about peace: "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." What was the name of the South African leader that became his partner?

Answer: Frederik Willem de Klerk

F. W. de Klerk was the last president under South African apartheid. He became a partner of political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, to relieve tensions in South Africa and establish more equitable policies. Working together, they shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Who was the Trappist monk who made this observation in the twentieth century? "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."

Answer: Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton came late to the Church having been rejected by several orders. He finally was accepted as a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. There he established a reputation as poet, mystic, social activist, and religious writer. He accepted the austerity of Trappist life and produced seventy books dealing with spirituality, social justice, and a quiet pacifism.

His autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948) became a surprise best seller. He was occasionally allowed to travel in relation to promoting his philosophy and ideas.
3. Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist. He was not a politician, a soldier, or world traveler. In his lifetime, he was not highly regarded but future generations began to see his works as profoundly significant. In "Walden Pond" (1854) he advocated a simple life in harmony with nature. What was the central core idea in "Civil Disobedience"(1849)?

Answer: Passive resistance

In modern times both Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. used the concept of passive resistance to advance political and social progress. In Gandhi case it was a spirit of nationalism for India. In King's it focused on the civil rights movement.

There is a long list of artists, writers, politicians, and scholars that were touched by Thoreau's ideas. Here are just a few: Justice William O. Douglas, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Lloyd Wright. A psychologist, B.F. Skinner, updated Thoreau with his novel "Walden Two"(1948).

True to his ideals, he lived a Spartan life. During one period of time he was homeless and was taken in by Ralph Waldo Emerson. When Thoreau was arrested for non-payment of taxes because he opposed the Mexican War, Emerson went to bail him out. Emerson asked why he was there and Thoreau replied that why wasn't Emerson there with him.
4. What 'common sense' patriot had this to say in the context of the American Revolution? "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."

Answer: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine came from England to the Colonies with the assistance of Ben Franklin. Early on he wrote of the status of slavery in the colonies. Later, his essay called "Common Sense" claimed that England had lost touch with the American colonies and that separation was inevitable. Historians give him credit for influencing the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
5. Which man who was Pope from 1978 to 2005 made this observation? "Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being"

Answer: John Paul II

As a Pole he was the first non-Italian Pope for centuries. Arguably, the most popular Pope of his century, he held to traditional Catholic teachings and values and took firm stands against Communism oppression, and strove for justice. He was the most traveled Pope and brought his presence and blessings to all parts of the globe.
6. Who was the late night talk show host who summed up inner peace this way? (Ed McMahon could tell you). "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

Answer: Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson dominated the late night television arena for thirty years. Carson was noted as a shy man off-camera but sometimes held grudges against those he thought had taken advantage of him. Carson won many awards, such as six Emmy Awards, 1985 Peabody Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992. People often stayed up to hear his opening monologue in which he would spear current events and politics.

After his retirement in 1992, he rarely made any public appearances.
7. Disabled people often cannot correct the disability but may find effective means to compensate. Which famed Cambridge Professor of Physics and Cosmology who opined this? "My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically."

Answer: Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking has ALS (Lou Gehrig Disease) but he has overcome those limitations to become one of the best known scientists on earth. This is not totally attributed to his research on black holes and quantum physics. His book, "A Brief History of Time" (1988), in twenty years sold ten million copies and was on the best seller list for 4.5 years.
8. Inner peace can be found in many forms. What popular actor found his this way? "It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use"

Answer: Tom Cruise

After some minor parts, Cruise sailed to the top of the A-List with "All the Right Moves" and "Risky Business", both 1983. Frequently, his name will make a film a commercial success. His first wife Mimi Rogers introduced him to Scientology in 1990.

Psychologists think the actors are attracted to Scientology because most actors are very independent people and it promises one power over one's own mind, self, and destiny. Many of the high profile actors are wealthy and Scientology places less guilt in the accumulation of riches and shifts it to a spiritual context.
9. This quotation is from a German philosopher who had great influence on such people as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini: "To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness,to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

It is fair to say that the Nazis used Nietzsche selectively to further their own ends and that Hitler was told more about Nietzsche than he actually read; on the other hand Mussolini was a voracious reader and biographers attribute his drift from socialism to facision to his reading of Nietzsche.

Nietzsche wrote of the "Übermensch" or "Superman" who by force of will and personality would rule. He proposed that God was dead and those that spoke of heaven were those who could not cope with life. Right and wrong were abstractions to Nietzsche and felt that people had their own internal value system. He emphasized decision making over weakness. Nietzsche was a powerful writer. Late in his life he fell into mental illness and never wrote another line.
10. Here are a few lines from a popular poem. Do you remember the name? "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story."

Answer: Desiderata

The Desiderata is found on T-Shirts, and numerous other commercial enterprises. Often it has been used by sources who believed it was traditional and anonymous. Actually it was copyrighted in 1927 by Max Ehrmann. Desiderata means "desired things" in Latin.

A voice recording of Desiderata made in 1971 by actor Les Crane hit the Billboard charts at number eight, number four on the Canadian, and number six in the UK. It was number four on the Australian singles chart in 1971.

A court trial in 1976 ruled that the copyright had expired and that the poem was in the public domain. A statue has been erected in 2010 at a park in Terre Haute, Indiana to commemorate his work. For those of you who may be new to the Desiderata, Here are the other lines:


"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
Source: Author Rehaberpro

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