From the daily paper, a quiz about Socrates:Answers in parentheses

He is best remembered as a great Greek (Philosopher.)

We know Socrates mainly through this philosopher's dialogues (Plato.)

Who declared that nobody was wiser than Socrates? (The oracle at Delphi.)

Socrates said "I know that I know (nothing.")

What is meant by the Socratic method? (A method of teaching by question and answer to elicit truths.)

Of what crime was he found guilty? ( Corruption of the minds of the youth of Athens.)

How was the death penalty to be carried out? (By drinking a mixture of poison containing hemlock.)

Who was Xanthippe? (His wife.)

Who were Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus (His three sons.)

I like knowing esoteric things that will never do me any good except that I like knowing them. Socrates, you live on, in legend and memory.

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