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Simon Says (Part 5) Trivia Quiz


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A multiple-choice quiz by Billkozy. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
Billkozy
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
400,403
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Question 1 of 10
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"?
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Question 2 of 10
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?
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Question 3 of 10
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.)
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Question 4 of 10
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?
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Question 5 of 10
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? Hint


Question 6 of 10
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?
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Question 7 of 10
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."
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Question 8 of 10
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." Hint


Question 9 of 10
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."
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Question 10 of 10
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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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
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"?

Answer: 10,000

He went on to say: "Only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them." In addition to sports, the British journalist wrote a wildlife opinion column.

The book, "How To Be Wild" is a year long encounter Mr. Barnes spends with various wildlife including elephants, mosquitoes, dolphins, flying squirrels, giraffes, butterflies and other creatures. Historians have long echoed Mr. Barnes assertion, tht farming was "invented" some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Cradle of Civilization, that is, the region around Iraq, Turkey and Iran.

A international collaboration of researchers however now offers evidence that plant cultivation began more like 23,000 years ago.
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?

Answer: American Illinois Senator Paul Simon

Famous for his bow ties, the two-time Senator from Illinois was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984, and stayed in political office until he retired from Congress in 1997. In 1987 he announced he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president. He ended his campaign in April 1988 after only winning his home state's primary.
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.)

Answer: epistemohomenism

Metaethics seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, statements, attitudes, and judgments, while quasi-realism argues that "no moral statements are fundamentally descriptive; they don't describe a moral reality." Neo-Humean theory (based on philosopher David Hume) views rationality as a matter of serving one's personal ends or goals.

A person with no goal that would be served by morally appropriate behavior would have no practical reason to behave morally. Most people do have the goals of avoiding punishment and disapproval, so these goals give them good practical reason to act morally. Epistemohomenism doesn't exist.

It's a word formed by combining epistemology (the study of our knowledge of how things are) with the word "ad hominem" (a sneaky arguing strategy that attacks irrelevant feelings or prejudices of a person as a distraction fro the ethical argument they're making).
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?

Answer: Val Kilmer

All these actors portrayed The Saint, but it was Val Kilmer who played him in the Phillip Noyce directed film in 1997, co-starring Elizabeth Shue. In its depiction of the character, this film version strayed from the literary sources and the famous TV show starring Roger Moore.
Leslie Charteris created the character in 1928 for a series of books, and his Saint was not the master of disguise that the 1997 film newly proposed.
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?

Answer: Professor of business administration and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute think tank

Abbey Simon is the concert pianist, André Simon is the wine expert, and Anne Simon is the X-Files advisor.
Julian Simon wrote "The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving," for the Cato Institute Policy Report in the September/October 1995 issue. Many of the books he wrote examine economic subjects such as population growth, natural resources, and immigration.
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?

Answer: "Lord of the Flies"

Simon is first introduced as a member of Jack's choir in the William Golding novel "Lord of the Flies." He is described as "a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse".
Simon believes that the marooned boys on the island do have a real fear, but that the thing they should fear is not a "beastie", but the darkness that lies within each of their souls. Early on, Simon senses that the boys will succumb to savagery, making his murder by the group all the more ironic and tragic.
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."

Answer: Simon Armitage

Simon Vestdijk and Simon Carmiggelt were both Dutch poets; Simon Vestdijk was a 15-time nominee for the Nobel prize in literature and Carmiggelt was also a columnist who became known for his television appearances. Simon Dach was a 17th-century Prussian lyrical poet and hymnwriter. Simon Robert Armitage, is an English poet, playwright and novelist who has been England's Poet Laureate since May 10, 2019. Armitage is a Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2019.

He has written for many television films and, together with director Brian Hill, popularized a format known as the docu-musical which included cult films as "Drinking for England" and "Song Birds."
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."

Answer: Captain America

Joe Simon says that when he drew the first sketch of Captain America, he and Jack Kirby went ahead with creating the entire first issue before showing it to Martin Goodman who was the publisher at Timely Comics. Fortunately Mr. Goodman took on an immediate love for it. Simon however described the initial outcome as having a bit of a hiccup: "But when Captain America came out, America wasn't yet in the war, so the American Nazis weren't happy with what we did to their beloved Fuhrer" Simon recalls that the publishers had a few unpleasant interactions with the American Nazi group known as "Bund" but he and Timely Comics remained unfazed. "If anything, it added fuel to the fire" he proudly stated. Captain America's secret identity was Steve Rogers and he wore a hooded mask and chain-mail union suit. Steve Rogers was a 98-pound weakling who ws so sickly the Army wouldn't even accept him, so he agreed to undergo a government experiment aiming to create an army of super-soldiers.
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."

Answer: Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize-winning particle accelerator physicist

Simon van der Meer wrote this in "De Libero van het CERN". Jaarboek 1985. Vereniging voor Technische Physica. TU Delft. p. 61. CERN is The European Organization for Nuclear Research, a research organization operating the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Van de Meer's work led to the discovery of two of the most fundamental components of all matter, the W and Z particles.
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?

Answer: Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter

Kinsey Millhone is from Sue Grafton's famous alphabet series of crime novels: "A is for Alibi", "B is for..." etc. Jack Reacher is from Lee Child's book series, which have been adapted to film for Tom Cruise. Travis McGee is writer John D. MacDonald's protagonist, a man who recovers other people's property for a fee of 50%.
In Beckett's 2009 novel "Whispers in the Dark", Dr. David Hunter says "All narcissists are self-obsessed, but malignant narcissists are at the top of the scale. They have a pathological self-belief-a sense of grandiosity, even-which demands attention and admiration. They're convinced they're special in some way and want other people to acknowledge it as well. Crucially, they're also sadists who lack any conscience. They don't necessarily get fulfilment from inflicting pain, but they enjoy the sense of power it gives them. And they're indifferent to any suffering they might cause."
Other books in the David Hunter series include: "The Chemistry of Death", "Written in Bone", "The Calling of the Grave", "The Restless Dead" and "The Scent of Death."
Source: Author Billkozy

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