Trivia Quiz Category: books — Difficulty: hard. Pick an answer for each of the ten questions, then submit at the end. Question 1 of 10 Which philosopher wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra and famously declared 'God is dead'? Arthur Schopenhauer Soren Kierkegaard Martin Heidegger Friedrich Nietzsche Question 2 of 10 Who wrote the satirical novel Catch-22, set among American bomber pilots in the Second World War? Kurt Vonnegut Norman Mailer John Updike Joseph Heller Question 3 of 10 What are the Three Laws of Robotics, formulated by Isaac Asimov, designed to govern? The behaviour of robots towards humans Interstellar travel by androids The rights of robots in court The construction of artificial intelligence Question 4 of 10 Who is the Danish prince in Shakespeare's tragedy who delivers the soliloquy beginning 'To be, or not to be'? Hamlet Horatio Fortinbras Laertes Question 5 of 10 Who wrote the philosophical work Being and Time, published in 1927? Martin Heidegger Ludwig Wittgenstein Jean-Paul Sartre Edmund Husserl Question 6 of 10 Which philosopher and economist co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels in 1848? Vladimir Lenin Karl Marx Mikhail Bakunin Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Question 7 of 10 In Tolstoy's War and Peace, against which European emperor's invasion is much of the novel set? Kaiser Wilhelm I Napoleon Bonaparte Frederick the Great Charles XII of Sweden Question 8 of 10 Which Shakespeare play features the warring families Montague and Capulet? Romeo and Juliet Othello Much Ado About Nothing The Two Gentlemen of Verona Question 9 of 10 Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, the landmark novel of magical realism set in the fictional town of Macondo? Isabel Allende Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Luis Borges Mario Vargas Llosa Question 10 of 10 Which ancient Chinese philosopher is traditionally credited with writing the Tao Te Ching? Confucius Mencius Sun Tzu Lao Tzu (Laozi) Submit answers Cancel
