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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
W. Somerset Maugham
In wonder.
John F. Kennedy
Aristotle
2. I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
Steven Wright
Douglas Adams
Pablo Picasso
3. 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.
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
HenryFord
Albert Einstein
4. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
Pablo Picasso
Saint Augustine
Mark Twain
Eleanor Roosevelt
5. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
Margaret Mead
Rita Mae Brown
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Edison
6. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
George Bernard Shaw
Abraham Lincoln
There are no facts -
Theodore Roosevelt
7. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Religion
Tom Clancy
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
8. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
Theodore Roosevelt
Pablo Picasso
James Branch Cabell
9. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____
In the gym -
Its too crowded.
Take it.
John Donne
10. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.
C. S. Lewis
George Carlin
George Orwell
Glory is fleeting -
11. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
There are no facts -
Peter Drucker
Socrates
Francis Bacon
12. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Dave Barry
Voltaire
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
13. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Simplicity
Albert Einstein
Thomas Paine
Veni -
14. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____
Thomas Edison
Its too crowded.
Phyllis Diller
Bertrand Russell
15. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Vince Lombardi
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
16. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Trust a few -
Oscar Wilde
Henry David Thoreau
Sting like a bee.
17. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Woody Allen
William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin
Vidi -
18. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Rightly considered.
Oscar Wilde
Chance favors
To find yourself -
19. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Leonardo da Vinci
Socrates
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
20. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Muhammad Ali
Woody Allen
Benjamin Franklin
William Shakespeare
21. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
Francis Bacon
It aint over
And a pile of junk.
Leonardo da Vinci
22. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.
H. G. Wells
William Shakespeare
Aldous Huxley
Will Rogers
23. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oscar Wilde
Is another matter.
Let us - to the end -
24. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Yogi Berra
Socrates
Bertrand Russell
Mark Twain
25. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Abraham Lincoln
Bob Dylan
Friend to one;
Benjamin Franklin
26. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Chance favors
Mark Twain
Women and cats
Wisdom begins
27. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Is another matter.
Yoda
Alexander Pope
Victor Hugo
28. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
Thomas Edison
Mother Teresa
Epictetus
Oscar Wilde
29. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ah! the farce.
Benjamin Franklin
H. M. Warner
30. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.
William Shakespeare
Carl Sagan
Rich Cook
Victor Hugo
31. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
In an hour of play
Douglas Adams
With the very best.
Who the hell wants
32. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.
Robert Heinlein
Mark Twain
To know everything.
Mario Andretti
33. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
I saw -
Must - like men -
Oscar Wilde
Think for yourself.
34. 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.
Mother Teresa
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
35. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
Muhammad Ali
Carl Sagan
36. 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.
Richard Nixon
You may delay -
Maybe this world
Albert Einstein
37. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Ronald Reagan
Pablo Picasso
Steven Wright
Henry David Thoreau
38. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.
Adam Smith
Makes more converts
Oscar Wilde
Calvin Coolidge
39. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Its inherent virtue
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
40. Peace begins with a smile.
John F. Kennedy
Mother Teresa
Augustine
Victor Hugo
41. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Present
Thomas Edison
42. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Charles Darwin
Pablo Picasso
43. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
When people laugh.
Samuel Adams
William Shakespeare
It just gives.
44. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Thomas Jefferson
Oscar Wilde
Cleaning your house
Its inherent virtue
45. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Without music -
Success is going
Read only a page.
Theodore Roosevelt
46. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Silence is golden
Victor Hugo
Love all -
Thomas Jefferson
47. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Marcel Proust
Its kind of fun
Mark Twain
James Branch Cabell
48. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Bill Gates
Theodore Roosevelt
Mae West
Oscar Wilde
49. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Augustine
Theodore Roosevelt
Mother Teresa
Adam Smith
50. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
All over again.
It goes on.
Bertrand Russell
It was here first.