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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. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Phyllis Diller
Vince Lombardi
Leonardo da Vinci
Dwight Eisenhower
2. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
And I sayWhy not?
Vince Lombardi
Wit
Winston Churchill
3. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
But blood - toil -
Socrates
Fears this is true.
4. Without music - life would be a mistake.
Douglas Adams
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alan Kay
Its too crowded.
5. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
You may delay -
Douglas Adams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend to one;
6. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
Jonathan Swift
George Washington
William Shakespeare
Muhammad Ali
7. 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.
Stephen Hawking
Marcel Proust
To be the candle
William Shakespeare
8. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Thomas Paine
Blaise Pascal
Napoleon Bonaparte
Rightly considered.
9. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
Thats relativity.
It aint over
Rightly considered.
Makes more converts
10. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Paul Harvey
Isaac Newton
Mark Twain
Christopher Morley
11. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Galileo Galilei
12. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Wernher Von Braun
Groucho Marx
Vince Lombardi
Knowledge speaks -
13. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
He is richest
But time will not.
Thomas Jefferson
God is a comedian
14. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Fears this is true.
Stephen King
Familiar with few;
Will Rogers
15. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Socrates
Bjarne Stroustrup
Yogi Berra
Terry Pratchett
16. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Richard Nixon
Patrick Henry
Socrates
17. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Pablo Picasso
Money doesnt talk -
Isaac Asimov
18. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To err is human;
Is to invent it.
To invent -
Mother Teresa
19. This is like deja vu all over again.
Winston Churchill
Aldous Huxley
Yogi Berra
Theodore Roosevelt
20. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.
This above all
Mother Teresa
But blood - toil -
Carl Sagan
21. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are painters
Be more concerned
Pablo Picasso
22. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
Mahatma Gandhi
Time
Leonardo da Vinci
23. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great
Isaac Newton
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
Sun Tzu
24. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
In fact they do so.
Victor Hugo
25. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
There are no facts -
Sting like a bee.
You may delay -
26. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
Winston Churchill
Groucho Marx
Must - like men -
There is no art.
27. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.
Vici
Where you are.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
28. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Patrick Henry
George Bernard Shaw
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
29. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Robert Kennedy
Plato
There is no try.
True friends
30. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Thomas Jefferson
Sting like a bee.
To be the candle
Vince Lombardi
31. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
Talent will not;
32. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.
And the pessimist
Jack Handey
Robert Frost
When people laugh.
33. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____
Joseph Stalin
Is showing up.
Play on.
Mark Twain
34. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Than well said.
George Orwell
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Paine
35. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
G. K. Chesterton
Pablo Picasso
John Lennon
Thomas Edison
36. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
Isaac Newton
Emily Dickinson
Rightly considered.
37. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Stephen Hawking
Winston Churchill
Leonardo da Vinci
Peace at any price -
38. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Mark Twain
Voltaire
Success is going
Voltaire
39. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
Socrates
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Blake
It goes on.
40. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.
Albert Einstein
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
41. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____
Hope
Peter Drucker
Is to invent it.
Its kind of fun
42. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
True friends
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
43. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Dave Barry
Be kind -
An unexamined life
Yogi Berra
44. 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.
Alexander Pope
C. S. Lewis
Benjamin Franklin
Is never accurate
45. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____
HenryFord
There is no try.
Douglas Adams
Chance favors
46. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Winston Churchill
T. S. Eliot
Aldous Huxley
Patrick Henry
47. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Kurt Vonnegut
But blood - toil -
H. M. Warner
I have not failed.
48. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Muhammad Ali
Chance favors
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____
Mark Twain
Dwight Eisenhower
Its too crowded.
Charles Darwin
50. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Mae West
T. S. Eliot
Dave Barry
Charles Darwin