Q 01/05

Which comedy has time-travelling teenagers collect Socrates for a California high-school history presentation?

A) Back to the Future Part II

B) Peggy Sue Got Married

C) Hot Tub Time Machine

D) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Answer · why

D) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The two slackers bundle him into their phone-booth time machine along with Napoleon and Billy the Kid, and insist on...

Q 02/05

What did Socrates himself leave behind for readers?

A) A book of sayings

B) No writings

C) Seven letters

D) One dialogue

Answer · why

B) No writings

No writings. In Plato's Phaedrus he even distrusts the written word, which he says is like a painting that stays silent when you ask it a question.

Q 03/05

What was the trade of Socrates's father Sophroniscus?

A) Fishmonger

B) Shipwright

C) Stoneworker

D) Potter

Answer · why

C) Stoneworker

Stoneworker. An ancient tradition had Socrates learn the craft too: draped figures of the Graces at the entrance to the Acropolis were said to be his ...

Q 04/05

In Plato's Apology, Socrates tells the jury that which kind of life is not worth living?

A) The idle life

B) The solitary life

C) The unexamined life

D) The fearful life

Answer · why

C) The unexamined life

The unexamined life. He said it after the guilty verdict, to explain why he could not simply go into exile and keep quiet: giving up his questioning w...

Q 05/05

Socrates's pupil Xenophon helped lead which army of Greek mercenaries home from Persia?

A) The Ten Thousand

B) The Sacred Band

C) The Immortals

D) The Myrmidons

Answer · why

A) The Ten Thousand

The Ten Thousand. Before joining them Xenophon asked Socrates's advice and was sent to consult an oracle, but asked only which gods to sacrifice to, a...