Good Quiz. Got 15 out of 20. Hope i can get out of this rutt. 15 out of 20...on the last six (including this one) quizzes... no less...no more. Oh well.
What? Why? It would be Galileo (or Copernicus, depending on whether you're going with "theorized" or "proved") and heliocentrism, but relativity is pretty firmly Einstein.
To be completely honest, I would have known that fact, but I had never heard of Bligh or his ship, and baselessly assumed that "Bligh" was a nautical term and therefore I had no chance whatsoever of getting the question correct.
Read Mutiny on the Bounty or watch the film sometime - I like the 1960s remake with Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard, but the old one with Clark Gable is great, too.
I don't know why, but I first thought of Woodes Rogers for the Endeavour. But now I have no idea whether or not he actually captained a ship of that name. Why did I think of him ?
As a person who studies fallacies, can I just mention how much I absolutely loath this argument?
Here's an example.
Politician #1: "Martin Luther King had a dream that one day people wouldn't be judged by their race. I'd like to help make that dream a reality."
Politician #2: "I can't believe my opponent is comparing himself to Martin Luther King."
It doesn't take a genius level IQ to realize that politician #2 is being a dishonest jerk by employing a strawman argument. I hereby call this particular variant the "comparison strawman". Once you see it, you'll see it everywhere.
Thatcher was a very polarising and controversial neoliberal and authoritarian right-wing politician, while Shakespeare is often regarded as the world's most important playwright. To link the two just because they have a nickname and are from England is, to me, strange and anachronistic. So I agree with Alex Thirkell. Besides, ding dong the witch is dead!
As QM said, no one is comparing the two people's characters.
My suggestion was only to make the analogy tighter (nicknames of the first women leaders of major European nations, both long-serving and politically steadfast. In fact Merkel is sometimes also called 'Iron Chancellor').
Agree Merkel is a good comparison, but she isn't generally regarded to be as controversial and polarising as Thatcher. Reagan might be better - both Thatcher and Reagan were hard line neoliberals and conservatives, and imposed from the top down neoliberal reforms in their countries for the first time which (it is widely accepted) caused much inequality, unemployment and poverty. (I'm not talking about character but politics/political economy here).
Altho the 'teflon president' Reagan nickname doesn't have such as strong link as 'iron chancellor' to thatcher.
I had the same thought as Pitzikat. It made sense because it compares administration to administration--VP to VP, President to President. I eventually got to Truman but that's only after I retyped Kennedy a few times.
Here's an example.
Politician #1: "Martin Luther King had a dream that one day people wouldn't be judged by their race. I'd like to help make that dream a reality."
Politician #2: "I can't believe my opponent is comparing himself to Martin Luther King."
It doesn't take a genius level IQ to realize that politician #2 is being a dishonest jerk by employing a strawman argument. I hereby call this particular variant the "comparison strawman". Once you see it, you'll see it everywhere.
e.g. "Mutti" is to Merkel as "Iron Lady" is to ______
My suggestion was only to make the analogy tighter (nicknames of the first women leaders of major European nations, both long-serving and politically steadfast. In fact Merkel is sometimes also called 'Iron Chancellor').
Altho the 'teflon president' Reagan nickname doesn't have such as strong link as 'iron chancellor' to thatcher.