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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. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
Get busy living -
Vidi -
Socrates
2. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Speak softly
Vidi -
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
3. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Vince Lombardi
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
The chief business
4. 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.
Robert Frost
Is never accurate
Plato
And in that faith -
5. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
George Carlin
Mark Twain
Victor Hugo
In fact they do so.
6. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
Pablo Picasso
Muhammad Ali
Henry David Thoreau
Woody Allen
7. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
Rene Descartes
Mark Twain
Sting like a bee.
8. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Mahatma Gandhi
Samuel Johnson
9. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
W. Somerset Maugham
Woody Allen
George S. Patton
10. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
After silence -
Andy Warhol
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
11. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.
John Milton
In an hour of play
Alexander Pope
Wilson Mizner
12. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.
Winston Churchill
Aristotle
Be more concerned
Do - or do not.
13. 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.
Bjarne Stroustrup
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Is never accurate
14. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
Winston Churchill
Daniel Webster
Winston Churchill
Richard Nixon
15. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
(I came -
Mark Twain
Oscar Levant
Aldous Huxley
16. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
Daniel Webster
Oscar Wilde
But time will not.
17. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____
Can be wonderful.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Is another matter.
18. 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
C. S. Lewis
James Branch Cabell
Aldous Huxley
I - at any rate -
19. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I'm a Democrat!
Christopher Morley
Talent will not;
I'm a Democrat!
20. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
And men and dogs
Marcel Proust
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
21. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Thomas Jefferson
Well done is better
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
22. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Isaac Newton
There is no try.
All over again.
Winston Churchill
23. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Take it.
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
24. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Than reason.
Niels Bohr
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
25. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
Socrates
Bjarne Stroustrup
26. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
With a smile.
Woody Allen
H. M. Warner
Winston Churchill
27. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
C. S. Lewis
Aristotle
Douglas Adams
Socrates
28. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Stephen Hawking
Chance favors
29. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
Rudyard Kipling
John Wayne
To find yourself -
C. S. Lewis
30. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
H. G. Wells
John Wooden
I hate quotations.
Mark Twain
31. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Peace begins
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
32. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Proves nothing.
Albert Einstein
Is fear itself
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
When people die
34. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
Oscar Wilde
Robert Frost
You may delay -
The chief business
35. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____
Terry Pratchett
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better
Keep going.
36. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Peter Drucker
Aldous Huxley
Mother Teresa
Napoleon Bonaparte
37. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
Mark Twain
Like art...
Like philosophy -
I conquered.)
38. 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
Bertrand Russell
And the Macintosh -
Vidi -
Woody Allen
39. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
And a pile of junk.
Thomas Paine
G. K. Chesterton
John Milton
40. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
John Wayne
Laozi
Thomas Edison
Socrates
41. 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.
Will Rogers
Theodore Roosevelt
Rich Cook
Oscar Wilde
42. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Adam Smith
Robert Frost
Than reason.
An intolerable one.
43. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Will Durant
Sun Tzu
There are no facts -
Winston Churchill
44. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Alexander Pope
W. Somerset Maugham
Bertrand Russell
45. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
Robert Frost
William Shakespeare
I saw -
Veni -
46. Well done is better than well said.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
47. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
Jesse Jackson
Trust a few -
Victor Hugo
Mae West
48. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Well done is better
Oscar Wilde
True friends
49. 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.
With a smile.
And the pessimist
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
50. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
Thomas Jefferson
The chief business
George Carlin
Dwight Eisenhower