Quiz about They did the Right using Left
Quiz about They did the Right using Left

They did the Right using Left Trivia Quiz


This quiz is about famous left-handers. You are asked to identify them from the short description given. Good luck and have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by DeepHistory. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
DeepHistory
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
365,132
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
850
Last 3 plays: Guest 96 (3/10), Guest 216 (6/10), Guest 68 (4/10).
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1. What famous left-hander remarked, "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."?

Hint

Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
Demosthenes

2. He was a well-known ancient military and political leader. Among his accomplishments is the invention of a cryptic cipher. Who was that left-hander? Hint

Julius Caesar
Pericles
Alexander the Great
Gaius Octavianus

3. That famous left-hander served under Cesare Borgia as a military architect, during his conquest of Italy. Who was he? Hint

Leonardo da Vinci
Verrocchio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Botticelli

4. He was a child prodigy. His father was a famous musician, and he became a musician, too, and became much more famous. He composed choral, piano, operatic, symphonic and chamber music. Who was this left-hander? Hint

Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Strauss II
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5. This left-hander was one of the American Founding Fathers, a US President, a political philosopher and the founder of the Democratic-Republican Party. Who was he? Hint

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams

6. This left-hander earned the nickname "the little corporal". Who was he? Hint

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Napoleon Bonaparte
King Louis XIV
Cardinal Richelieu

7. He wrote some masterpieces of European literature, one of the most widely read European writers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and a polymath who is remembered for his theory of colors. Who was this left-hander? Hint

Henrik Johan Ibsen
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Friedrich Nietzsche

8. This left-hander had an older brother named Orion and, when the American Civil War started, he enlisted in a Confederate military unit for a while. Who was he? Hint

Horace Greeley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
James Fenimore Cooper

9. He was a Russian writer and philosopher, who developed the idea of nonviolent resistance. Who was this left-hander? Hint

Alexander Pushkin
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Anton Chekhov

10. What famous left-hander expressed his wisdom with the quote: "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills"? Hint

Mahatma Gandhi
Albert Schweitzer
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Henry Dunant


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What famous left-hander remarked, "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."?

Answer: Aristotle

No other philosopher influenced the world more than Aristotle, a student of Plato and Alexander the Great's teacher. His works are a summary of the ancient Greek view of the world, covering all the (then) branches of knowledge, including logic, rhetoric, physics, literature, poetry, zoology, meteorology, embryology, geology, geography, ethics, economics, government, metaphysics, education, aesthetics and, of course, philosophy.
2. He was a well-known ancient military and political leader. Among his accomplishments is the invention of a cryptic cipher. Who was that left-hander?

Answer: Julius Caesar

The Caesar cipher was invented by Julius Caesar, who used it in his personal correspondence. It is one of the most famous ciphers and, despite the fact that it was useful throughout the Roman ages, it can now easily be deciphered and, practically, it offers no security.
3. That famous left-hander served under Cesare Borgia as a military architect, during his conquest of Italy. Who was he?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is the personification of Rennaisance Man or "Homo Universalis", a new type of person - independent, with a critical mind, that decides for itself and its own opinion and standpoint for the World and other people. Leonardo was a painter, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect and musician. It is a rumor that he could do ten things at the very same moment.
4. He was a child prodigy. His father was a famous musician, and he became a musician, too, and became much more famous. He composed choral, piano, operatic, symphonic and chamber music. Who was this left-hander?

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart was, is and will be one of the greatest composers of all time. Some of his greatst works include "Don Giovanni", "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", "Le nozze di Figaro" and "Requiem".
5. This left-hander was one of the American Founding Fathers, a US President, a political philosopher and the founder of the Democratic-Republican Party. Who was he?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson also authored the Declaration of Independence, and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786), separating church and state in Virginia. Also, while president, he ordered the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Moreover, he played a key role in abolishing the slave trade and founded the University of Virginia.
6. This left-hander earned the nickname "the little corporal". Who was he?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon earned this moniker during the First campaign in Italy, in the year 1796. He eventually rose in power and became the Emperor of France, leading his country to the conquest of most of Europe and earning a reputation that placed him among the greatest leaders, military and political, worldwide.
7. He wrote some masterpieces of European literature, one of the most widely read European writers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and a polymath who is remembered for his theory of colors. Who was this left-hander?

Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe, among others, penned "Faust" and the "Theory of Colours". The latter gave Wittgenstein inspiration for his "Remarks on Colour". Other notable modern philosophers, like Hegel, were fascinated by Goethe and were enthusiastic about his Works, literary and philosophical.
8. This left-hander had an older brother named Orion and, when the American Civil War started, he enlisted in a Confederate military unit for a while. Who was he?

Answer: Mark Twain

Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens) was one of the most prolific authors of all time. He wrote "The Prince and the Pauper", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", the "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Faulkner considered Twain "the father of American literature".
9. He was a Russian writer and philosopher, who developed the idea of nonviolent resistance. Who was this left-hander?

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy is one of the most studied and read authors in history. His masterpieces include "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "The Cossacks" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich'.
10. What famous left-hander expressed his wisdom with the quote: "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills"?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi was the leader of the Indian movement for independence from the British. He proposed nonviolent civil disobedience. He became famous for his actions and inspired freedom activistes throughout the globe, such as Nelson Mandela and Lech Walesa.
Source: Author DeepHistory

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