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