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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. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






2. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






3. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






4. Peace begins with a smile.






5. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






6. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






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






8. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






9. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.






10. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






11. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






12. Do - or do not. There is no try.






13. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






14. Hope is a waking dream.






15. He not busy being born is busy dying.






16. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






17. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






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






19. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






20. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






21. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






22. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






23. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






24. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






25. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






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






27. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






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






29. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






30. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






31. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






33. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






34. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






35. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






36. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






37. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






38. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






39. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






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






41. 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. _____






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






45. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






46. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






47. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






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






49. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






50. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.