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1. In "How To Be Wild", published in 2007, sportswriter Simon Barnes wrote: "Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last" how many years "did we invent agriculture"?
2. "Government is not the enemy," he said in 1988. "Government is simply a tool that can be used wisely or unwisely. We can do better, my friends." Which Paul Simon said this?
3. "We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience ... Ethics is disturbing. We are often vaguely uncomfortable when we think of such things as exploitation of the world's resources, or the way our comforts are provided by the miserable labour conditions of the third world ... Racists and sexists, like antebellum slave owners in America, always have to tell themselves a story that justifies their system".
So wrote English philosopher Simon Blackburn in his 2001 book, "Being Good". Professor Blackburn is an expert in all of the following areas of philosophy except for which? (A completely made-up area by the way.)
4. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is August Christopher. I was named for St. Augustan, who coined my favorite phrase, 'Give me chastity and give me constancy, but do not give it yet.'"
That was fictional character Simon Templar, in the 1997 film of "The Saint." Who played Simon Templar in that film adaptation?
5. In "The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving", Julian Simon wrote: "Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people - especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty - who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well." Who was Julian Simon?
6. "Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast ...What I mean is ... maybe it's only us."
So said Simon, in what famous novel?
7. Which poet appointed The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 2019 to 2029, wrote in "Killing Time" (1999):
"it says NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
but don't say why."
8. Legendary comic book creator Joe Simon explained that he and legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby created which character as a response to Hitler's rise to power?: "We both read the newspapers. We knew what was going on over in Europe. World events gave us the perfect comic-book villain, Adolf Hitler, with his ranting, goose-stepping and ridiculous moustache. So we decided to create the perfect hero who would be his foil."
9. Who wrote: "Above all, it's creative thinking that lies at the basis of discoveries. You must dare to think differently, see things from different sides, in order to come across fortuitous new ideas frequently. You should develop even the most stupid ideas and when you do this systematically, there will always come something useful out of it."
10. "Pixels don't have the depth, the resonance you're looking for. No matter how high the resolution, how true the colours, they're still only an impressionist approximation of their subject. Whereas film captures something of its essence, a transferral that goes beyond the chemical process. A real photograph is created by light, pure and simple: a paintbrush of photons that leaves its mark on the canvas of the film. There's a physical link between photographer and subject that calls for fine judgement, for skill."
Although none of British novelist Simon Beckett's books in his crime novel series have been adapted for the film medium with its above-mentioned pixels, his books have some 21 million worldwide. Who is his ongoing protagonist?
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