Simon Says (Part 5) Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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."