Sunday, May 13, 2012

G2. Raised in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam, he lived quietly as a lens grinder, turning down rewards and honors throughout his life, including prestigious teaching positions. His given name, rendered as Baruch in Hebrew, Benedito in Portuguese and Benedictus in Latin, means "the blessed" in all these languages. His magnum opus, the posthumous 'Ethics', in which he opposed Descartes's mind–body dualism, has earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy's most important contributors.

A. Spinoza

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  1. spinoza
    docmurali

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  2. (Irr)Reverend Benedictus Cumberbatchus..

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  3. Christian Huygens --Kiril

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  4. The theme for C is Bombay.

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  5. The G theme - might it be that Spinoza-spewing member of the Junior Ganymede Club, Jeeves?

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  6. And I'm going to take a shot at the master answer! Bombay Dreams, Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat, and perhaps some Jeeves play I haven't heard of - Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals?

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  7. Aha! Vilayanur Ramachandran = The Phantom Limb = The Phantom of the Opera!
    The A theme is Phantom!
    You realize now that I'm going to pick this apart. I just have to figure out which ones are Evita, Jesus Christ and Cats ;-).

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  8. For the F theme, I'm guessing tuxedo is a breed of cat, so - Cats :-).
    That's five down and two to go. 'Mount' is beginning to look like it'll go the Jesus Christ way, but I'll hold my horses on that. 'Radio' I can't tell yet.

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