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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. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Well done is better
Wisdom begins
2. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Theodore Roosevelt
What! You too?
Read only a page.
Yogi Berra
3. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Ronald Reagan
Ansel Adams
Oscar Wilde
Is business.
4. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To invent -
When people die
Be kind -
Veni -
5. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
True friends
Charles Darwin
6. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Niels Bohr
7. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without music -
8. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Ronald Reagan
The prepared mind.
George Washington
Socrates
9. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.
Samuel Johnson
Vici
Isaac Asimov
Money doesnt talk -
10. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Frost
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
11. Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle
Life is pleasant.
Leonardo da Vinci
Well done is better
12. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
All great truths
James Branch Cabell
Mae West
Will Rogers
13. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Mother Teresa
Is Music
And men and dogs
Pablo Picasso
14. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Epictetus
Sting like a bee.
It aint over
With the very best.
15. 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.
In fact they do so.
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
Winston Churchill
16. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
Where the spirit
Winston Churchill
Walt Disney
17. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Saul Bellow
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Disney
George Bernard Shaw
18. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
William Shakespeare
Edith Wharton
Than reason.
Ronald Reagan
19. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.
Glory is fleeting -
Walt Disney
George Washington
William Shakespeare
20. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Take it.
HenryFord
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
21. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
Mother Teresa
W. Somerset Maugham
22. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
Henry David Thoreau
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
23. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Religion
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
24. 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.
Mother Teresa
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Talent will not;
25. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.
Mark Twain
Aristotle
And in that faith -
Thomas Paine
26. It aint over till its over.
Theodore Roosevelt
Yogi Berra
William Shakespeare
Theodore Roosevelt
27. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
True friends
Thomas Edison
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
28. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Like philosophy -
Robert Frost
Vince Lombardi
Thomas Paine
29. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert Heinlein
Sting like a bee.
Pablo Picasso
I hate quotations.
30. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
Isaac Asimov
T. S. Eliot
31. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
I saw -
William James
Sam Brown
Is another matter.
32. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Glory is fleeting -
Thomas Edison
Aristotle
Walt Disney
33. 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
Albert Einstein
Thomas Paine
Laozi
Saul Bellow
34. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
C. S. Lewis
Aristotle
Peace begins
Can be wonderful.
35. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Be more concerned
Laozi
Mae West
God is a comedian
36. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Be more concerned
Thomas Jefferson
Pablo Picasso
George Bernard Shaw
37. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.
All over again.
William Blake
Rightly considered.
Emily Dickinson
38. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers
Samuel Adams
John Milton
Thomas Edison
39. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Well done is better
Bertrand Russell
Hope
Vince Lombardi
40. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.
When people laugh.
I'm a Democrat!
Ronald Reagan
Makes more converts
41. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Julius Caesar
Where you are.
Mother Teresa
Be more concerned
42. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
Mother Teresa
With the very best.
Edith Wharton
Theodore Roosevelt
43. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
44. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Dave Barry
Ronald Reagan
But time will not.
45. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Every rocket fired -
And in that faith -
Than well said.
Alexander Pope
46. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Pablo Picasso
Robert Frost
An eye for an eye
Winston Churchill
47. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Thats relativity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
48. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Abraham Lincoln
William Blake
Dave Barry
Louis Pasteur
49. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____
There is no try.
Mother Teresa
Success is going
Women and cats
50. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Bertrand Russell
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Isaac Newton