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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. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






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






3. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






4. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






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






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






7. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






8. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






9. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






10. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






11. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






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






13. 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. _____






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






15. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






16. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






17. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






19. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






20. Peace begins with a smile.






21. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






22. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






23. Wisdom begins in wonder.






24. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






25. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






26. He not busy being born is busy dying.






27. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






28. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






29. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






30. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






31. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






32. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






33. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






34. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






35. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






36. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






37. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






38. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






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






40. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






41. 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. Thats relativity.






42. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






43. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






44. 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.






45. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






46. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






47. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






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






49. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






50. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.







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