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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. If music be the food of love - play on.






2. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






3. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






4. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






5. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






6. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






7. 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.






8. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






9. 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






10. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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.






11. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






12. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






13. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






14. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






15. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






16. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






17. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






18. 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.






19. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






20. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






21. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






22. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






23. Wisdom begins in wonder.






24. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






25. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






26. 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.






27. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






28. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






29. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






30. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






31. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






32. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






33. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






34. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






35. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






36. Wit is well-bred insolence.






37. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






38. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






39. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






40. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






41. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






42. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






43. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






44. He not busy being born is busy dying.






45. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






46. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






47. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






48. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






49. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






50. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.