A Difference of Opinion Trivia Quiz

Answer: Women

Poet as well as a novelist, George Meredith produced a total of fifteen full-length novels, eight collections of poetry, and countless minor works. Most of these are out of print today.
At his worst, Meredith was verbose, unnecessarily complex and inclined to pontificate. His philosophy has alternately fascinated and exasperated scholars...

Answer: History

Ernst Toller was German.

Answer: Experience

Oscar Wilde, the son of a Dublin surgeon, stands out among the fraternity of Victorian dramatists. After Trinity College, Dublin, Wilde attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where as a disciple of Walter Pater he founded the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for art's sake." His aesthetic idiosyncrasies such as his wearing his hair long, dressing colourfully, and carrying flowers while lecturing Gilbert and Sullivan parodied in the operetta Patience. One of his best works was 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'...

Answer: Prejudice

Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire), author and philosopher, was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris. Voltaire's intelligence, wit and style made him one of France's greatest writers and philosophers.

Answer: Religion

Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto. His adherents include Stalin and Lenin. Communist ideology has its roots in his philosophy.

Answer: Memory

In 1895, Wilde was accused of homosexuality. He sued, presumably to clear his name, and was instead jailed for two years for "sexual practices." Bankrupt and ruined in health, Wilde left prison in 1897 and settled, bitter and broken, in Paris under the pseudonym "Sebastian Melmoth". He died in 1900....

Answer: Liberty

Charles Montesquieu was a French lawyer, political philosopher. He wrote "Lettres Persanes," 1721 and "De L'Esprit des Lois," 1748.

Answer: Time

British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. He was one of the principal proponents of evolutionary theory in the mid-19th century, and his reputation at the time rivaled that of Charles Darwin. Spencer was initially best known for developing and applying evolutionary theory to philosophy, psychology and the study of society. Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles primarily for his defense of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism, and his views have been invoked by 'libertarian' thinkers....

Answer: Schools

Robert Green Ingersoll is too little known today. Yet he was the foremost orator and political speechmaker of late 19th century America -- perhaps the best-known American of the post-Civil War era.

Robert Ingersoll received little formal schooling. He last saw the inside of a conventional schoolroom as a youth of fifteen while his family was residing in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Later, he would say that his real education began while he was waiting at a cobbler's shop, when he chanced to pick up a book of the poetry of Robert Burns...

Answer: Love

Henry Beecher emerged from Paxton Hibben's muckraking biography of 1927 as a kind of P.T. Barnum of the pulpit - a sanctimonious, self- seeking hypocrite who spoke for the worst tendencies of a corrupt era....
Henry Ward Beecher was a member of a notable family. No other 19th family had a greater impact on American culture than the Beechers...