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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Subject
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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 chief business of the American people is business.
Benjamin Franklin
What is now proved
Benjamin Franklin
Calvin Coolidge
2. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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3. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
Abraham Lincoln
Where you are.
Eleanor Roosevelt
All great truths
4. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
I hate quotations.
Mark Twain
Ansel Adams
Or Not guilty.
5. This is like deja vu all over again.
Yogi Berra
Muhammad Ali
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
6. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
It is force!
C. S. Lewis
Charles Darwin
Isaac Newton
7. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Be kind -
Voltaire
8. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
Winston Churchill
Let us - to the end -
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
9. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
So - first of all -
10. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.
Rich Cook
Ronald Reagan
Is a waking dream.
Naked people have
11. 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.
Is fear itself
G. K. Chesterton
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
12. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Is business.
Terry Pratchett
Is never accurate
William Blake
13. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Oscar Wilde
The first principle
Ronald Reagan
It goes on.
14. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mae West
It swears.
And the Macintosh -
15. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Jonathan Swift
In wonder.
Dave Barry
Mother Teresa
16. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.
Tis dearness only
William Shakespeare
The first principle
Bob Dylan
17. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success is going
Mark Twain
Rita Mae Brown
To utter
18. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Success is going
19. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____
But time will not.
Steve Wozniak
Walt Disney
George Bernard Shaw
20. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
Peace at any price -
Mark Twain
Stephen King
I think;
21. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
It goes on.
Like art...
22. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Rene Descartes
Carl Sagan
Glory is fleeting -
23. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak
George Bernard Shaw
It aint over
Ah! the farce.
24. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Naked people have
Thomas Paine
Laozi
25. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Robert Frost
Vidi -
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
26. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Lewis Carroll
Will Durant
Religion
Theodore Roosevelt
27. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
And the pessimist
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
28. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Than reason.
William Shakespeare
Eleanor Roosevelt
To invent -
29. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.
Veni -
Blaise Pascal
Is Music
Success is going
30. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
31. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
Ansel Adams
Chance favors
Mother Teresa
An unexamined life
32. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.
Voltaire
Maybe this world
As they are seized.
The prepared mind.
33. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
To find yourself -
The prepared mind.
Like art...
W. Somerset Maugham
34. 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
Mae West
And you say Why?
I - at any rate -
Silence is golden
35. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Robert Kennedy
But it does rhyme.
Wilson Mizner
G. K. Chesterton
36. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Socrates
Oscar Wilde
John F. Kennedy
37. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Aristotle
I'm a Democrat!
I hate quotations.
38. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
Gobble their food -
As they are seized.
Terry Pratchett
Yogi Berra
39. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Silence is golden
Thomas Paine
40. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Socrates
Charles Darwin
Socrates
Eleanor Roosevelt
41. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
All great truths
Benjamin Franklin
Wernher Von Braun
Aristotle
42. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aldous Huxley
Aristotle
Charles Darwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.
Its kind of fun
George Bernard Shaw
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
44. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Socrates
Tis dearness only
Yogi Berra
Steve Wozniak
45. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.
Wisdom begins
Winston Churchill
Terry Pratchett
Do wrong to none.
46. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.
Thomas Paine
Robert Frost
Groucho Marx
William Shakespeare
47. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Is never accurate
Will Durant
As they are seized.
48. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Who the hell wants
Think for yourself.
John Dalberg-Acton
Friedrich Nietzsche
49. 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.
It just gives.
Or Not guilty.
A witty saying
Benjamin Franklin
50. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
Alexander Pope
With what you have -
G. K. Chesterton
Eleanor Roosevelt