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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. Hope is a waking dream.






2. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






3. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






4. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






5. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






6. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






7. 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.






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






9. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






10. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






11. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






12. 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






13. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






14. 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.






15. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






16. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






17. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






18. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






19. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






20. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






21. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






22. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






23. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






24. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






25. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






26. 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.






27. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






28. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






29. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






30. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






31. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






32. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






33. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






34. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






35. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






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






37. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






38. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






39. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






40. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






41. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






46. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






47. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






48. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






49. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






50. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.