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  1. Which dialogue by Plato records Socrates's defense speech delivered at his Athenian trial in 399 BC?
  2. Which work is Plato's fourth and last dialogue detailing the philosopher's final days, following Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito?
  3. In philosophical ethics, the golden mean represents the desirable middle between which two extremes?
  4. Which Greek-born physician invented the Pap smear test for the early clinical detection of cervical cancer?
  5. What is generally recognized as discoverer of the precession of the equinoxes in 127 BC?
  6. Which mathematician introduced an algebraic symbolism that used an abridged notation for frequently occurring operations and unknown powers?
  7. Which prolific ancient geometer turned out a large number of works, including the treatise Conics?
  8. The hydraulis is the name of an ancient musical instrument created by which inventor of Alexandria?
  9. According to archaeological analysis, the mechanism has at least how many gears?
  10. The Metonic cycle or enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek: ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, from ἐννεακαίδεκα, "nineteen") is a period of almost exactly what after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of t…
  11. Which prominent position did Eratosthenes eventually hold at the Library of Alexandria?
  12. In moral philosophy, Socrates's theory of virtue states what fundamental thesis?
  13. The four causes are the: what, the formal cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause?
  14. The Stoics argued that Socratic ignorance was part of what rhetorical practice, which became the dominant narrative of Socrates in later antiquity?

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