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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






2. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






3. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






4. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






5. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






6. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






7. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






8. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






9. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






10. Well done is better than well said.






11. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






12. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.






13. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






14. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






15. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






16. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






17. If music be the food of love - play on.






18. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






19. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






20. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






21. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






22. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






23. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






24. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






25. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






26. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






27. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






28. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






29. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






30. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






31. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






32. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






33. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






34. Time makes more converts than reason.






35. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






36. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






37. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






38. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






39. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






40. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






41. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






42. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






43. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






44. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






45. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






46. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






47. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






48. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






49. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






50. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.