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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. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






2. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






3. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






4. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






5. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






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






7. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.






8. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






9. 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.






10. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






11. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






12. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






13. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






14. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






15. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






16. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






17. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






18. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






19. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






20. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






21. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






22. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






23. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






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






25. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






26. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






27. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






28. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






29. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






30. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






31. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






32. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






33. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






34. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____






35. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






36. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






37. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






38. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






39. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






40. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






41. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






42. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






43. The chief business of the American people is business.






44. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






45. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






46. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






47. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






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






49. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






50. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.