Question: When was 'True Love' released?
Answer: 1989

Question: What genre was 'True Love'?
Answer: comedy

Question: Who starred in 'True Love'?
Answer: Annabella Sciorra and Ron Eldard

Question: When did "Awakenings" come out?
Answer: 1990

Question: Whose real story is 'Awakenings' based on?
Answer: Oliver Sacks

Question: What is Sacks' career?
Answer: neurologist

Question: When was 'A Kind of Alaska' performed?
Answer: 1985

Question: Who wrote 'A Kind of Alaska'?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: When was 'City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder' published?
Answer: 1948

Question: How much of 'City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder' is set in the Bronx?
Answer: about half

Question: Who wrote 'City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder'?
Answer: Herman Wouk

Question: When was 'The Grand Concourse' published?
Answer: 2007

Question: Who wrote 'The Grand Concourse'?
Answer: Jacob M. Appel

Question: Who wrote 'Bonfire of the Vanities'?
Answer: Tom Wolfe

Question: When was 'Bonfire of the Vanities' published?
Answer: 1987

Question: Who was the main character of 'Bonfire of the Vanities'?
Answer: Sherman McCoy

Question: What race was Sherman McCoy?
Answer: white

Question: Where did McCoy get lost?
Answer: off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx

Question: What can be seen as of essential importance to a practiced of humanism?
Answer: human beings

Question: What is a common tenant of humanism?
Answer: freedom and progress

Question:  What can be credited for the changes in the definition of humanism? 
Answer: intellectual movements

Question: These days humanism could be viewed as a form of what?
Answer: secularism

Question: Instead of turning to a spiritual or divine source practicers of humanism turn to what?
Answer: science

Question: What was humanism once considered the same as?
Answer: philanthropy

Question: Who has disagreed with this connotation of the word?
Answer: Gellius

Question: In which period did Gellius gain fame?
Answer: Italian Renaissance

Question: Who is credited with clarifying and making the term humanitas commonplace?
Answer: Cicero

Question: What is the characteristic that most separates humans from animals?
Answer: speech

Question:  At the time of the French Revolution what previous focus of humanism was removed?
Answer: supernatural

Question: Protestantism differs from Humanism in its focus is on what?
Answer: supernatural

Question: What do current tenants humanism have their origins in?
Answer: 18th-century Enlightenment

Question: What was a name for humanism believers who emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Answer: Religious Humanism

Question:  In what year did the term humanism gain yet another layer of meaning?
Answer: 1808

Question: Who can be credited with assisting the word humanism with finding a home in the English language?
Answer: Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer

Question: Who was responsible for yet another definition of the philosophy in 1856?
Answer: Georg Voigt

Question: What nation was highly receptive to the new definition of this concept?
Answer: Italy

Question: During which period was the philosophy of humanism next updated?
Answer: French Enlightenment

Question: What was the criticism of Humanism made by conservatives of the time?
Answer: idolatry of humanity

Question: Who continued to support the belief system despite its critics?
Answer: liberal reformers and radicals

Question: Who felt that humanism would surely be a major "religion" today?
Answer: Ernest Renan

Question: What was the main difference between humanism and the religions of the time?
Answer: centred on humankind

Question: What well known socialist adopted the usage of this term in Germany?
Answer: Karl Marx

Question: Who did benevolent believers in humanism turn to for ideas about the philosophy?
Answer: Greek philosophers

Question: Where did the learned believers place their focus?
Answer: linguistic and cultural disciplines

Question: Which ancient text provides an example of the humanist way of thinking?
Answer: Gathas of Zarathustra

Question: When was this writing penned?
Answer: 1,000 BCE – 600 BCE

Question: When was this writing penned?
Answer: afterlife

Question: What well know scholar was inspired by Humanism?
Answer: Voltaire

Question: Who was known as being a founder of humanism thought in China?
Answer: Yellow Emperor

Question: What early adopter and developer of is associated with Confucianism?
Answer: Duke of Zhou

Question: What early adopter and developer of is associated with Confucianism?
Answer: Book of History

Question: Who is known for the thought that humanity is the most important thing in the world?
Answer: Wu of Zhou

Question: When were humanism beliefs mixed with another philosophy by a Taoist thinker?
Answer: 6th century BCE

Question: What is an example of Humanism based philosophy that focused on ethics?
Answer: Silver Rule of Confucianism

Question: Who can be credited with saying essentially humans are the gods of gods?
Answer: Ji Liang

Question: Where could you read this information?
Answer: Zuo Zhuan

Question: Who was one of the first Greeks to adopt a humanistic outlook?
Answer: Thales of Miletus

Question: Where did this type of thinking next travel to?
Answer: Athens

Question: Who first introduced the idea that matter is made of atoms?
Answer: Democritus

Question: Who was the first person to provide education opportunities to females?
Answer: Epicurus

Question: When did the first wave of Humanism reach Europe?
Answer: Middle Ages and the Early Modern period

Question: Who was thought to be the original believer of humanism in of the Renaissance period?
Answer: Petrarch

Question: The study and following of classical writers was said to be a solution to what issue?
Answer: Cicero

Question: The study and following of classical writers was said to be a solution to what issue?
Answer: age of Darkness

Question:  What is one religious text that was thought to eventually lead to a peace between all?
Answer: the Jewish Kabbalah

Question: Who gave followers of Humanism the ability to think out of bounds?
Answer: Renaissance Church authorities

Question: Who gave followers of Humanism the ability to think out of bounds?
Answer: era of universal agreement

Question: What cities may have influenced the beliefs of Gemistus Pleto?
Answer: Florence, Venice, and Rome

Question: How were humanist able to identify the development of humanist thought?
Answer: Latin literary texts

Question: What was included in this quest for knowledge of the belief system?
Answer: Patristic literature

Question: If your were unsure of the authenticity of an ancient text how could you verify it?
Answer: philology

Question: What caused a large migration of Greek refuges in the 1450s?
Answer: Byzantine Empire

Question: What caused a large migration of Greek refuges in the 1450s?
Answer: Greek manuscripts

Question: When are these texts first able to reach a large amount of people?
Answer: 1517

Question: When are these texts first able to reach a large amount of people?
Answer: Erasmus

Question:  Erasmus can be said to have lit the match that sparked a radical change in thinking in his era along with who?
Answer: Lefèvre d'Étaples

Question: What text still remained without the type of thorough review that others texts had received by the 18th century?
Answer: the Bible

Question:  What author had a great impact in Rome?
Answer: P. Terentius Afer

Question: Who was able to spread the idea of equality among all through his words?
Answer: Terence

Question: From where did this school of thought emerge?
Answer: the Greeks

Question: Who again issued the same type of challenge centuries later
Answer: Seneca

Question: What was the name of the main belief Terence offered
Answer: universalism

Question: Who felt that looking to these ancient documents for new ideas was not the way to mover forward?
Answer: A. C. Crombie