Bibliotherapy Quiz Contest: Tazo Tuesday #1

Six tazos, six questions.
Difficulty setting - Moderately Easy.


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Question One

He came. He saw. He conquered. Also, he was stabbed 23 times by a group of sixty senators on a fateful mid-March day in Rome. Who?

"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

Question two

By getting lost on his quest for fortune, he found eternal fame / notoriety. Who?

"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."

Question three

After his death, his brain was 'stolen' and dissected in the hope of unlocking the secrets of his genius. Who?

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Question four

He was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park, a non-descript New Jersey township (now named after him, and also known as Little India) where he started his journey as a prolific filer of patents. Who?

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Question five

In 1923, he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario ("Twilight"). 48 years later, he became the second Chilean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Who?

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly."

Question six

He's T.N.T., he's Dynamite. Who?

"As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace."

Before scrolling to the bottom for answers, here's a throwback #TazoTuesday post, created in collaboration with @nostalgiaholix, for your reading pleasure...

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