Interactive Philosophy Quiz

This is your chance to pit your knowledge of philosophy against a computer opponent.

Rules

• You will be required to answer questions in five categories. Every time you answer a question right in a particular category, you collect a token for that category. The game is won by collecting tokens for each of the available categories.
• If you are playing an opponent, and you get a question wrong, then it is your opponent's turn to answer the next question.
• If you answer two questions right, you are able to choose the category of your next question. However, you make the choice of category before you answer the second question (if you get the second question wrong, then it becomes the computer's turn to answer and they get a question from a random category).
• Cheating - the computer won't like it! It isn't possible to prevent a user from cheating, but the program has various tricks up its sleeve to make this difficult. Be careful, or you may find your game suddenly terminated!
• Waiting for the opponent. If you choose to play against an opponent, then you need to wait for them to respond. If you want the game to work properly, you won't engage in any frivolous mouse-button activity whilst they're thinking!

Play The Game

You need to complete the form below to play.

1. Fill in your name
2. Choose your opponent - you'll notice that there are three levels of difficulty.
3. How much time do you want your opponent to spend thinking. We recommend you select "Average" - that'll give you a chance to have a think about their question, which might help you later in the game.
4. Your opponent will have things to say to you (not always polite!). Select "Silence my opponent" if you want them to keep quiet!
5. Then press Let's Play.