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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Isaac Asimov
I saw -
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
2. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Woody Allen
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson
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.
God is a comedian
Oscar Wilde
C. S. Lewis
Proves nothing.
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Socrates
To know everything.
Rich Cook
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
Is another matter.
I - at any rate -
Jesse Jackson
William James
6. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Oscar Wilde
Sun Tzu
But time will not.
Leonardo da Vinci
7. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
Take it.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
And the Universe
Winston Churchill
Oscar Levant
Than well said.
9. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
Sun Tzu
Socrates
Is not Eureka!
10. Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
Life is pleasant.
Religion
11. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Present
Is to be one.
Wit
John F. Kennedy
12. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Ah! the farce.
John F. Kennedy
Woody Allen
Winston Churchill
13. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Stephen King
Thomas Jefferson
Margaret Thatcher
Friend to one;
14. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Rita Mae Brown
Winston Churchill
Get busy living -
Julius Caesar
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.
Oscar Wilde
Theodore Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Ernest Hemingway
16. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
Jesse Jackson
Bertrand Russell
Socrates
17. If music be the food of love - play on.
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Carl Sagan
Terry Pratchett
18. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
John F. Kennedy
There is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Patrick Henry
19. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Saul Bellow
In the gym -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Proves nothing.
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.
John Donne
George Washington
Leonardo da Vinci
Plato
21. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leonardo da Vinci
An intolerable one.
Wisdom begins
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Mother Teresa
Niels Bohr
23. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Do what you can -
Winston Churchill
Niels Bohr
Robert Frost
24. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Chance favors
John Donne
25. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Scott Adams
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Like philosophy -
Richard Nixon
Thomas Edison
Rene Descartes
27. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Margaret Thatcher
And a pile of junk.
Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Swift
28. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Steven Wright
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Henry David Thoreau
29. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Richard P. Feynman
Thats relativity.
Yogi Berra
Pablo Picasso
30. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Douglas Adams
Rudyard Kipling
Peter Drucker
But blood - toil -
31. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Socrates
Behind the lines -
Robert Frost
Robert Kennedy
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!
Dave Barry
Theodore Roosevelt
Steven Wright
Thomas Jefferson
33. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
Margaret Mead
Is not Eureka!
34. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
C.A.R. Hoare
Mario Andretti
35. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Familiar with few;
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
There are no facts -
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
Thomas Paine
I - at any rate -
Yogi Berra
Or get busy dying.
37. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Wit
Muhammad Ali
Mark Twain
Like art...
38. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Jesse Jackson
Oscar Levant
Winston Churchill
True friends
39. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Wilde
Tis dearness only
40. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.
And men and dogs
Muhammad Ali
Socrates
Is fear itself
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.
Robert Frost
Be more concerned
Friedrich Nietzsche
Theodore Roosevelt
42. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
Robert Oppenheimer
Andy Warhol
George Carlin
Oscar Wilde
43. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Theodore Roosevelt
Andy Warhol
Mother Teresa
To invent -
44. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
William Shakespeare
Samuel Adams
And you say Why?
Ernest Hemingway
45. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Religion
Get busy living -
Mother Teresa
Do - or do not.
46. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Dwight Eisenhower
Mother Teresa
Its kind of fun
47. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Isaac Newton
Theodore Roosevelt
Mae West
Oscar Levant
48. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Aldous Huxley
When people die
Its inherent virtue
And men and dogs
49. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
Wisdom begins
Winston Churchill
50. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Samuel Johnson
Richard P. Feynman
When people laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche