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Who kept editing the Encyclopédie after it was banned in 1759?
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Who fills the gap: 'God said, Let ___ be! and all was light'?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Why: Alexander Pope wrote the couplet as an epitaph, but Newton's monument in Westminster Abbey got a Latin text instead.
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Which novel mocks the idea of 'the best of all possible worlds'?
Answer: Candide
Why: Its title page claimed it was translated from the German of a made-up Doctor Ralph.
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What phrase pinned on Rousseau did he never write?
Answer: Noble savage
Why: John Dryden's 1672 play The Conquest of Granada has the first known use in English.
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What composer filled The Magic Flute with Masonic symbols?
Answer: Mozart
Why: The Masonic number three recurs in its three ladies, three boys, three temples and three opening chords.
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Which book opens 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains'?
Answer: The Social Contract
Why: Geneva, Rousseau's home city, had the book burned in 1762, the year it came out.
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Which country's encyclopedia was the Encyclopédie meant to translate?
Answer: England
Why: Chambers's Cyclopaedia filled two volumes; the French project it started grew to 28.
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