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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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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. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Or Not guilty.
And men and dogs
In fact they do so.
Is fear itself
2. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Is business.
Muhammad Ali
Andy Warhol
Thomas Jefferson
3. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
It tolls for thee.
Mario Andretti
Sting like a bee.
When people laugh.
4. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Robert Frost
Or Not guilty.
You see things;
Mae West
5. Wisdom begins in wonder.
Woody Allen
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Socrates
6. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
William Blake
Where the spirit
7. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Chance favors
Saint Augustine
Who the hell wants
8. You may delay - but time will not.
Charles Darwin
Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Jefferson
9. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Aquinas
William Shakespeare
10. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Is a waking dream.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
11. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
Wernher Von Braun
George Bernard Shaw
12. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
Margaret Thatcher
As they are seized.
13. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
John Wooden
Carl Sagan
14. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
Epictetus
Friedrich Nietzsche
I saw -
Mahatma Gandhi
15. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
There are no facts -
Woody Allen
Socrates
In the gym -
16. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Jack Handey
17. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.
Yogi Berra
Socrates
Mark Twain
Voltaire
18. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
William Shakespeare
It goes on.
Henry David Thoreau
Woody Allen
19. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Oscar Wilde
Without music -
Play on.
Woody Allen
20. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Oscar Wilde
There is no try.
Ronald Reagan
Leonardo da Vinci
21. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro
Lewis Carroll
Vince Lombardi
Albert Einstein
Phyllis Diller
22. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Is another matter.
Mel Brooks
There are no facts -
Abraham Lincoln
23. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
George Bernard Shaw
Tom Clancy
Steven Wright
Peter Drucker
24. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Edison
Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly
25. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Winston Churchill
I hate quotations.
Is busy dying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson
Kahlil Gibran
HenryFord
Mother Teresa
27. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
To find yourself -
William Shakespeare
I think;
Mark Twain
28. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Woody Allen
Aristotle
Enemy to none.
Socrates
29. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
You see things;
John Dalberg-Acton
Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
30. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
In an hour of play
Gobble their food -
Peace at any price -
31. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Kahlil Gibran
Familiar with few;
Thomas Edison
With what you have -
32. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
George Santayana
Its too crowded.
Stephen Hawking
Thomas Edison
33. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
George Bernard Shaw
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Mead
Thats relativity.
34. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Pablo Picasso
Winston Churchill
35. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Will Durant
John Wayne
It is force!
Douglas Adams
36. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
William Blake
To utter
John Wooden
Chance favors
37. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Mahatma Gandhi
Is never accurate
Scott Adams
Patrick Henry
38. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
With the very best.
Julius Caesar
John F. Kennedy
Oscar Wilde
39. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Vici
Hope
Jonathan Swift
40. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.
In the gym -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Woody Allen
41. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Is showing up.
T. S. Eliot
Mark Twain
Is not Eureka!
42. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Death is peaceful.
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
An eye for an eye
43. 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
Plato
I - at any rate -
Ansel Adams
Peace begins
44. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
Plato
Benjamin Franklin
Niels Bohr
It goes on.
45. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
Fears this is true.
Benjamin Franklin
46. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.
Peace begins
Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
(I came -
47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Aristotle
Vici
Terry Pratchett
Socrates
48. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers
Eleanor Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
49. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.
To know everything.
Kahlil Gibran
Theodore Roosevelt
Women and cats
50. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Adams
Wilson Mizner
Theodore Roosevelt