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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. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






2. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






3. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






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






5. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






6. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






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






8. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






9. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






10. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






11. 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






12. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






13. 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.






14. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






15. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






16. A witty saying proves nothing.






17. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






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






19. This is like deja vu all over again.






20. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






21. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






22. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






23. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






24. Wit is well-bred insolence.






25. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.






26. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






27. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






28. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






29. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






30. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






31. He not busy being born is busy dying.






32. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






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






34. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






35. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






36. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






37. However beautiful the strategy - you should occasionally look at the results.






38. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






39. 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.






40. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






41. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






42. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






43. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






44. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






45. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






46. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






47. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






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






49. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






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