List of paradoxes - Quiz
List of paradoxes
  • 1. What is the term for a paradox that results from fallacious reasoning?
A) Veridical
B) Insolubilia
C) Antinomy
D) Falsidical
  • 2. What are paradoxes called when they involve self-contradictory results despite proper reasoning?
A) Veridical
B) Antinomy
C) Insolubilia
D) Falsidical
  • 3. Which paradox involves a soldier who wants to be declared insane to avoid combat?
A) Catch-22
B) Drinker paradox
C) Barbershop paradox
D) Lottery paradox
  • 4. What is another name for 'What the Tortoise Said to Achilles'?
A) The Raven paradox
B) Zeno's paradox
C) Carroll's paradox
D) The Court paradox
  • 5. Which paradox suggests that observing a green apple increases the likelihood of all ravens being black?
A) Drinker paradox
B) Temperature paradox
C) Lottery paradox
D) Raven paradox
  • 6. Which paradox involves a customer in a pub?
A) Catch-22
B) Barber paradox
C) Crocodile dilemma
D) Drinker paradox
  • 7. Which paradox involves a law student who agrees to pay his teacher only after winning his first case?
A) Berry paradox
B) Crocodile dilemma
C) Barber paradox
D) Paradox of the Court
  • 8. What is the canonical self-referential paradox?
A) Russell's paradox
B) Liar paradox
C) Berry paradox
D) Quine's paradox
  • 9. Which paradox involves a child stolen by a crocodile?
A) Pinocchio paradox
B) Crocodile dilemma
C) Barber paradox
D) Paradox of the Court
  • 10. Which paradox involves a set that contains all sets that do not contain themselves?
A) Berry paradox
B) Grelling–Nelson paradox
C) Russell's paradox
D) Richard's paradox
  • 11. The Pinocchio paradox involves which statement?
A) My nose grows now
B) All Cretans are liars
C) This sentence is false
D) It is opposite day
  • 12. Which paradox features an infinite sequence of sentences?
A) Card paradox
B) Liar paradox
C) Yablo's paradox
D) No-no paradox
  • 13. What name is given to self-referential paradoxes that arise from circular reference?
A) Antinomy
B) Falsidical
C) Veridical
D) Insolubilia
  • 14. Which paradox involves the temperature being 90 and rising?
A) Drinker paradox
B) Lottery paradox
C) Raven paradox
D) Temperature paradox
  • 15. The paradox concerning a barber who shaves all men who do not shave themselves is known as what?
A) Grelling–Nelson paradox
B) Barbershop paradox
C) Russell's paradox
D) Barber paradox
  • 16. In the Ship of Theseus, what happens when you replace one component?
A) It becomes a different ship
B) It is still considered the same ship
C) It becomes a collection of parts
D) It loses its value
  • 17. What does the Sorites paradox question regarding a heap of sand?
A) How fast a heap disappears
B) What color the sand is
C) How many grains are in a total heap
D) If a single grain determines a heap from a non-heap
  • 18. What happens if you assemble the original pieces of the Ship of Theseus after they have all been replaced?
A) It is no longer a ship
B) It is considered a new ship
C) It is considered a replica
D) It is considered the same ship as the original
  • 19. In the Sorites paradox, what happens if you remove grains one by one?
A) The heap gains new properties
B) The heap remains the same size
C) The heap turns into a pile
D) The heap eventually disappears
  • 20. Which of these is mentioned as a category for the provided paradoxes?
A) Physics
B) Vagueness
C) Mathematics
D) Logic
  • 21. What is the primary condition for the Ship of Theseus paradox to arise?
A) Replacing all components one at a time
B) Renaming the ship
C) Painting the ship a new color
D) Destroying the ship entirely
  • 22. In which paradox does an ant crawling on a rope reach the end despite the rope stretching rapidly?
A) Ant on a rubber rope
B) Friendship paradox
C) Inspection paradox
D) Elevator paradox
  • 23. What does the Accuracy paradox state regarding predictive models?
A) Models with lower accuracy may have greater predictive power
B) Higher accuracy always equals higher predictive power
C) Accuracy is irrelevant for predictive power
D) Models with high accuracy always fail
  • 24. Which paradox describes the possibility of increasing the average of two books by moving an entry between them?
A) Elevator paradox
B) Inspection paradox
C) Will Rogers phenomenon
D) Interesting number paradox
  • 25. What is the main issue highlighted in Borel's paradox?
A) Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations
B) Different definitions of randomness give different results
C) A wager seems to favor both participants
D) Statements involving conditionals are more complicated than they seem
  • 26. Which paradox involves three dice (A, B, and C) where A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A?
A) Two-envelope paradox
B) Intransitive dice
C) Necktie paradox
D) Bertrand's box paradox
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