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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. Without music - life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Terry Pratchett
The prepared mind.
With what you have -
2. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Its kind of fun
Woody Allen
Richard P. Feynman
Napoleon Bonaparte
3. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Thomas Paine
Richard P. Feynman
Aldous Huxley
John Wooden
4. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Mark Twain
Carl Sagan
Thomas Edison
Speak softly
5. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Albert Einstein
Thomas Paine
Napoleon Bonaparte
Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Proves nothing.
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
7. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
George S. Patton
Charles Darwin
Adam Smith
Winston Churchill
8. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Wit
Thomas Edison
Fools rush in
Mark Twain
9. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Michael Jordan
Thomas Paine
Socrates
Henry David Thoreau
10. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
HenryFord
Socrates
Robert Frost
11. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
It was here first.
There is no try.
Success is going
Abraham Lincoln
12. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
It tolls for thee.
To invent -
Mahatma Gandhi
An unexamined life
13. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Dorothy Parker
Like philosophy -
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
14. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Winston Churchill
Is busy dying.
Marcel Proust
Ronald Reagan
15. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
George Carlin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mae West
Vidi -
16. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Except temptation.
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
You see things;
17. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no art.
Enemy to none.
18. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Will Rogers
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jonathan Swift
Except temptation.
19. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.
Charles Darwin
Mother Teresa
Naked people have
Oscar Wilde
20. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Will Rogers
Glory is fleeting -
Victor Hugo
In fact they do so.
21. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Pablo Picasso
Samuel Adams
Till its over.
Socrates
22. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Patrick Henry
George Bernard Shaw
C.A.R. Hoare
Yogi Berra
23. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.
Mother Teresa
Thomas Paine
Get busy living -
Aristotle
24. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Is another matter.
Yogi Berra
You see things;
Dave Barry
25. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
26. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____
Winston Churchill
Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep going.
Yogi Berra
27. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Dwight Eisenhower
In wonder.
Sting like a bee.
28. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Pablo Picasso
Albert Einstein
Mahatma Gandhi
Benjamin Franklin
29. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Life is pleasant.
In fact they do so.
Thomas Jefferson
30. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
Thomas Edison
Be more concerned
An eye for an eye
Voltaire
31. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte
William Shakespeare
Familiar with few;
32. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Socrates
Oscar Wilde
Carl Sagan
I hate quotations.
33. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
G. K. Chesterton
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
34. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
35. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare
C.A.R. Hoare
Saul Bellow
36. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Stalin
Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sagan
37. 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.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
George Washington
William Blake
38. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Paine
Andy Warhol
Mark Twain
39. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
John Wayne
Speak softly
To be the candle
40. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
And I sayWhy not?
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
Benjamin Franklin
41. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
H. M. Warner
Mark Twain
When people die
Thomas Paine
42. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
Than reason.
Who the hell wants
Than reason.
43. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winston Churchill
In the gym -
Victor Hugo
44. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Mother Teresa
Theodore Roosevelt
Socrates
Mark Twain
45. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
Woody Allen
Henry David Thoreau
Mother Teresa
He is richest
46. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.
An eye for an eye
It is force!
An unexamined life
Muhammad Ali
47. To be - or not to be - That is the question.
Mario Andretti
William Shakespeare
Tears and sweat.
Woody Allen
48. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
George Carlin
An eye for an eye
Dwight Eisenhower
Muhammad Ali
49. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Glory is fleeting -
Thomas Edison
C.A.R. Hoare
John F. Kennedy
50. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
H. M. Warner
George Washington
Do what you can -
C. S. Lewis