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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. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
All over again.
George Orwell
Oscar Wilde
Alan Kay
2. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Douglas Adams
Albert Einstein
3. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.
Wilson Mizner
Mother Teresa
Thomas Edison
Rita Mae Brown
4. Maybe this world is another planets hell.
Alexander Pope
Mark Twain
Aldous Huxley
Friedrich Nietzsche
5. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
And you say Why?
Dave Barry
Friedrich Nietzsche
6. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Samuel Johnson
Like fire -
Benjamin Franklin
Money doesnt talk -
7. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Play on.
Richard P. Feynman
Except temptation.
Abraham Lincoln
8. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
In the gym -
Thomas Jefferson
Naked people have
Mark Twain
9. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Proves nothing.
And I sayWhy not?
Mark Twain
And you say Why?
10. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Stephen King
Winston Churchill
Wisdom begins
Henry David Thoreau
11. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Ronald Reagan
Simplicity
Bertrand Russell
Niels Bohr
12. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____
Is showing up.
Fears this is true.
Enemy to none.
Gobble their food -
13. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Vidi -
It is hard to fail -
Mark Twain
Plato
14. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare
I conquered.)
15. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
I hate quotations.
Adam Smith
W. Somerset Maugham
16. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
Alan Kay
What! You too?
Winston Churchill
17. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
Women and cats
But time will not.
John Lennon
Socrates
18. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.
Robert Oppenheimer
Wilson Mizner
Fears this is true.
Mario Andretti
19. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
John Dalberg-Acton
Winston Churchill
Familiar with few;
20. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
I have not failed.
As they are seized.
Socrates
Wit
21. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Eleanor Roosevelt
But it does rhyme.
Be kind -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.
Decca Recording Co.
Winston Churchill
Douglas Adams
Chance favors
23. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Ronald Reagan
Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates
God is a comedian
24. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Rita Mae Brown
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
God is a comedian
25. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
Aldous Huxley
Bill Gates
26. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
Victor Hugo
Wilson Mizner
Woody Allen
I saw -
27. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!
Makes more converts
Dave Barry
Niels Bohr
Abraham Lincoln
28. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
God is a comedian
Vince Lombardi
Thomas Jefferson
Than well said.
29. 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.
Isaac Newton
Than reason.
Robert Frost
William Blake
30. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry
Play on.
Where you are.
Yogi Berra
31. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alexander Pope
Rudyard Kipling
George Bernard Shaw
32. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Money doesnt talk -
George Carlin
Tis dearness only
I hate quotations.
33. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alexander Pope
Mark Twain
Life is pleasant.
34. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Vidi -
Plato
Thomas Jefferson
35. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Carl Sagan
Augustine
Dorothy Parker
Mother Teresa
36. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Mark Twain
Glory is fleeting -
Mother Teresa
Gobble their food -
37. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Mark Twain
Plato
Thomas Jefferson
But time will not.
38. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
William James
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
39. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Wernher Von Braun
Meet any hardship -
C. S. Lewis
40. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____
George Carlin
Is showing up.
George Bernard Shaw
Robert Heinlein
41. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Entire of itself;
Julius Caesar
Douglas Adams
Joseph Stalin
42. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
It was here first.
43. A witty saying proves nothing.
To invent -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Voltaire
Do what you can -
44. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Adam Smith
Will Rogers
True friends
Robert Heinlein
45. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Francis Bacon
Napoleon Bonaparte
In wonder.
Eleanor Roosevelt
46. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Theodore Roosevelt
Life is pleasant.
(I came -
Vince Lombardi
47. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Like fire -
Except temptation.
So - first of all -
Aristotle
48. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
Sting like a bee.
Albert Einstein
49. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
With what you have -
Religion
You may delay -
Oscar Wilde
50. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
With the very best.
Must - like men -
Walt Disney
Vince Lombardi