The Man Who Asked Questions

Question 1

Philosophers

Answer 1

A person engaged or learned in philosophy especially as a demicipline.

Question 2

Sibyl

Answer 2

A woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles of a god.

Question 3

Oracle

Answer 3

A priest

Question 4

Profoundly

Answer 4

Extremely

Question 5

Genuinely

Answer 5

In a truthful way

Question 6

Betray

Answer 6

Expose to danger by giving info to an enemy

Question 7

Podgy

Answer 7

Fat and chubby

Question 8

Deceitful

Answer 8

Guilty of misleading others

Question 9

Infuriating

Answer 9

Making one extremely angry and impatient

Question 10

Elaborate

Answer 10

Detailed and complicated in design and planning

Question 11

What was an oracle?

Answer 11

A wise woman a sibyl who would answer questions that visitors asked her.

Question 12

“How can I be the wisest man in Athens when I know-

Answer 12

So little

Question 13

What were Carpenters good at?

Answer 13

Carpentry

Question 14

Where does the word philosopher come from?

Answer 14

Greeks

Question 15

What made Socrates so wise?

Answer 15

He kept asking questions

Question 16

What did Socrates do as a young man?

Answer 16

He fought in the Peloponnesian wars against the Spartans

Question 17

Why did Socrates refuse to write anything down?

Answer 17

Because he thought talking was far better than writing

Question 18

What was Plato’s most famous work?

Answer 18

In the Republic, which he described an imaginary perfect society

Question 19

What are Platonic Dialogues?

Answer 19

Great works of literature as well as philosophy

Question 20

How did philosophers discover the nature of reality?

Answer 20

By thinking rather than relying on their senses

Question 21

Why does Plato think that Philosophers should be in-charge?

Answer 21

Because philosophers are good at thinking about reality

Question 22

What did Athens as a whole think of Socrates?

Answer 22

They did not value him as highly as Plato did

Question 23

How was Fifth-century Athens different from Plato’s perfect imaginary society?

Answer 23

Fifth-century Athens was sort of a democracy while Plato’s was not at all

Question 24

How does Philosophy today compare to what Socrates was doing?

Answer 24

It is similar, but today, there are 2 ½ thousand more years to work with

Question 25

What did Socrates do in middle age?

Answer 25

He stopped strangers in public and asked them weird questions

Question 26

Which philosopher was put to death for asking too many questions?

Answer 26

Socrates

Question 27

What is a sibyl?

Answer 27

A wise old woman

Question 28

Who was Aristotle?

Answer 28

Plato’s best student

Question 29

What was the result of the court case?

Answer 29

He was sentenced to death

Question 30

How old was Socrates in 399 BC?

Answer 30

70

Question 31

How was socritive killed?

Answer 31

He was forced to drink poison made from hemlock.

Question 32

What is hemlock?

Answer 32

A plant that gradually paralyzes the body.

Question 33

who did Socritive say goodbye to before he dyed?

Answer 33

His wife, three sons, students

Question 34

“If he had the choice to carry on living quietly, not asking any more difficult questions, he ———

Answer 34

He would not take it.”