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2 Albert Schweitzer quizzes and 20 Albert Schweitzer trivia questions.
1.
  Albert Schweitzer    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
See how much you know about this famous philospher and humanitarian with this quiz. No trivial knowledge assumed or needed.
Average, 10 Qns, GWU_Boy, Mar 11 22
Average
GWU_Boy
Mar 11 22
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  Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Albert Schweitzer was a physician, musician, writer, religious scholar, and humanitarian who dedicated his life to healing the sick in the jungles of Africa. Delve into the character of this exceptional human being.
Tough, 10 Qns, jstagamtome, Apr 15 09
Tough
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Albert Schweitzer Trivia Questions
1. Albert Schweitzer was of German extraction. You can visit his birthplace today in which region?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian

Answer: Alsace

His birthplace in Kaisersberg can be visited. It is now in the Alsace region of France.

2. Albert Schweitzer was born in Kaysersberg, Upper Alsace on January 14th, 1875. At the time of his birth, was Upper Alsace part of Germany or France?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: Germany

His native Alsace was part of Germany at his birth and became French again after World War I and then German during World War II and it is now French territory.

3. Schweitzer was a great lover of music. Which instrument did he most enjoy playing and which composer's music did he love to play?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian

Answer: organ - Bach

One can still listen to his own improvisations of Bach's works, as recordings of his music were made.

4. Albert Schweitzer's religious and moral convictions led him to Africa, where he established a hospital which began in a converted chicken coop. Where did he establish this hospital, which still exists?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian

Answer: Lambarene

Formerly located in French Equatorial Africa, it is now in the nation of Gabon. The hospital is about one hundred miles inland, on the banks of the Ogooue river. It performs 5,000 operations a year, 4,000 dental procedures, and has 40,000 patient visits.

5. In 1893, Schweitzer entered Strasbourg University. Six years later, when he was preparing to receive his degree in philosophy, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the religious philosophy of which person?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: Immanuel Kant

A year later, he received his doctorate in theology and became the principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas in Strasbourg, France.

6. Schweitzer said, "Living truth is that alone which has its origin in....".

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian

Answer: thinking

From "Out of My Life and Thought", p. 223. He went on to say "With its depreciation of thinking, our generation has lost its feeling for sincerity and with it that for truth as well."

7. In 1912, Schweitzer married another medical scholar, Hélène Bresslau. The following year they sailed abroad and built a hospital. What was their destination?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: French Equatorial Africa

They constructed a hospital at Lambaréné on the Ogowe River in Gabon.

8. In this 1923 book, Schweitzer wrote about the "reverence for life", which shows how all creatures are one, and offered "the most universal definition of good and evil".

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: Philosophy of Civilization

All of the incorrect answers are works of Immanuel Kant.

9. For his humanitarian work, Schweitzer won the Nobel Peace Prize in what decade?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: 1950s

At the age of 78, he won his award in 1952 and summed everything up with the quote, "My life is my argument".

10. What is the "First Century" theology which was a major component of Schweitzer's writings on Jesus and Christianity?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian

Answer: The belief by Jesus and his followers that the end of the world would occur in his generation

Emperor Constantine solidified the church's altered theology, thereby contradicting the scripture related to Jesus' belief that the end of the world was imminent in his generation.

11. On April 28th (stop nuclear tests), 29th (danger of atomic war), and 30th (abandon nuclear weapons), 1958, Schweitzer made three appeals on Oslo, Norway radio to stop the impending Cold War. These broadcasts were later published under what name?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: Peace or Atomic War?

Atomic energy dangers became Schweitzer's focal point after the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings.

12. What is unusual about the circumstances of Albert Schweitzer's death and funeral?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer: Great Humanitarian

Answer: He made his own burial cross

It takes a deeply religious and humble person to perform such an act.

13. What decade of the 20th century did Albert Schweitzer die in?

From Quiz Albert Schweitzer

Answer: 1960s

Schweitzer died on September 4th, 1965 and was buried in Lambaréné next to his wife.

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