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Chicken or the egg - Quiz
Contributed by: Batchelor
  • 1. Which ancient philosopher posed the question as a philosophical matter in his 1st-century essay 'The Symposiacs'?
A) Plutarch
B) Macrobius
C) Anaximander
D) Aristotle
  • 2. What did Aristotle conclude about the chicken-and-egg sequence?
A) It was a divine creation
B) It was an infinite sequence with no true origin
C) The chicken came first
D) The egg came first
  • 3. When did the first amniote egg appear?
A) Around 8,000 years ago
B) In the 4th century BCE
C) In the 1st century CE
D) Around 312 million years ago
  • 4. Approximately how long ago did modern chickens arise?
A) 312 million years ago
B) 1,600 years ago
C) At most eight thousand years ago
D) 1,000 years ago
  • 5. What does the metaphoric adjective 'chicken-and-egg' describe?
A) The religious creation of animals
B) Situations where it is unclear which event is the cause and which is the effect
C) The biological process of egg laying
D) The evolution of junglefowl
  • 6. Which philosopher expressed a view similar to Darwinian evolution by noting chickens had non-chicken ancestors?
A) Carlo Dati
B) Anaximander
C) Macrobius
D) Plutarch
  • 7. What protein is involved in the formation of the thickened calcium carbonate shell in chicken eggs?
A) Junglefowl-9
B) Amniote-12
C) Ovocleidin-17
D) Calcium-17
  • 8. Why is the distinction of when an organism became a chicken considered arbitrary?
A) Because the egg is the only scientific metric
B) Because DNA tests are inconclusive
C) Because it arose through gradual interbreeding and domestication
D) Because the Bible states chickens appeared first
  • 9. What does the text suggest about the presence of OC-17 in other species like turkeys and finches?
A) It proves chickens evolved from finches
B) It suggests eggshell-reinforcing proteins long predate the first chickens
C) It shows that only chickens possess this specific protein
D) It proves the egg came before the chicken
  • 10. What perspective did the 16th-century Christian world use to settle the chicken-and-egg dilemma?
A) Scientific observation of mutations
B) Aristotelian philosophy
C) Darwinian evolution
D) The Biblical origin story
  • 11. According to the text, if the question refers to eggs in general, which came first?
A) The egg
B) The chicken
C) The amniote
D) The red junglefowl
  • 12. Who published an erudite satire on the chicken-and-egg subject in the mid-17th century?
A) Carlo Dati
B) Macrobius
C) Aristotle
D) Plutarch
  • 13. What does an amniote egg have that fish or amphibian eggs lack?
A) Ovocleidin-17
B) DNA mutations
C) A hard-shelled exterior for land
D) A faster incubation period
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