100th Episode Quiz Answers

Congratulations to Graeme Andrews, who we believe is the only person (out of 66 entrants) who got all the questions right on the quiz. (If you think you also got them all right, let us know.) Here is a complete list of correct answers, with explanations. Thanks to everyone who took part! We will do another quiz after 150 episodes...

1. The name of Plotinus’ teacher was:  Ammonius Saccas (M. Annius Ammonius was the teacher of Plutarch, Ammonius son of Hermeias the scholarch of the Alexandrian school of commentators)
2. Hiawatha the giraffe first appeared in which episode?  Episode 36 on Aristotle's epistemology (giraffes were first mentioned in episode 7 on Parmenides, but the name "Hiawatha" appeared for the first time in episode 36... we think)
3. Which philosopher was NOT an atomist?  Chrysippus (because he was a Stoic; Stoics, like Aristotle, believed in a continuous theory of matter)
4. Which episode guest remarked, “although I have various things I ought to be doing, I don’t feel I’m in any kind of mental distress.”:  James Warren (in the context of discussing Epicurean hedonism)
5. Which film has NOT been mentioned in the podcast?  Star Wars (I will probably get around to this at some point though!)
6. Which author wrote not only on philosophy, but also composed a historical  work called the 'Anabasis'?  Xenophon
7. According to legend, which of the following did Pyrrho NOT do?  Walk off a cliff (according to legend he almost walked off cliffs, but his students held him back)
8. Syrianus was the teacher of which Neoplatonist?  Proclus
9. Which of the following was NOT an ancient school of medicine?  Materialism
10. Which analogy has NOT been used by Peter in the podcast?  Aristotle’s golden mean is like a cup of tea at just the right temperature ( I did however compare the mean theory to Goldilocks' experiences in the house of the 3 bears)
11. What topic did Aristotle fail to cover in depth, leaving a gap for his student Theophrastus to fill?  Botany
12. Who supposedly discarded a golden wreath given him in Syracuse? Xenocrates
13. What are the Stoics named after?  The place where they congregated (the "stoa" or porch)
14. What did Aristotle accuse Heraclitus of denying?  The principle of non-contradiction (as a reaction to the theory of the unity of opposites)
15. Which dialogue of Plato focuses on the topic of names?  Cratylus
16. Which philosopher did NOT criticize Christianity?  Alexander of Aphrodisias
17. What example did Peter use to introduce Aristotle’s 4-cause theory?  a computer
18. Who is credited with the ten skeptical modes?  Aenesidemus (as reported by Sextus Empiricus)
19. Which Platonist believed that for Plato, the physical cosmos is eternal? Proclus (indeed he composed a list of arguments to this effect, refuted by Philoponus)
20. Who is Peter’s favorite silent film actor?  Charlie Chaplin. No, just kidding, the right answer is Buster Keaton!