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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. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






2. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






3. 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.






4. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






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






6. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






7. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






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






9. Without music - life would be a mistake.






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






11. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






12. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






13. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






14. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






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






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






17. Aristotle said: Hope _____






18. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






19. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






20. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






21. 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.






22. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






23. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






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






25. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






26. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






27. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






28. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






29. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






30. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






31. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






32. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






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






34. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






35. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






36. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






37. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






38. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






39. Peace begins with a smile.






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






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






42. 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.






43. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






44. 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.






45. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






46. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






47. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






48. 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?






49. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






50. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.