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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. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Margaret Thatcher
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
It is hard to fail -
2. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Can be wonderful.
Calvin Coolidge
Dave Barry
3. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
4. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Patrick Henry
Is not Eureka!
Walt Disney
Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
H. M. Warner
Wernher Von Braun
Gobble their food -
Do - or do not.
6. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.
Oscar Wilde
He is richest
I'm a Democrat!
Meet any hardship -
7. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Alan Kay
Do what you can -
Henry David Thoreau
Without music -
8. 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.
Oscar Wilde
Jack Handey
Plato
Mae West
9. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Take it.
Than reason.
But time will not.
Is a waking dream.
10. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
He is richest
Thomas Jefferson
George Bernard Shaw
William Shakespeare
11. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Mark Twain
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Aristotle
12. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
And you say Why?
When people die
Where the spirit
Winston Churchill
13. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.
Albert Einstein
After silence -
William Shakespeare
Edith Wharton
14. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Margaret Mead
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
15. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
Is busy dying.
Galileo Galilei
Socrates
Theodore Roosevelt
16. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Rightly considered.
Theodore Roosevelt
17. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____
Linus Torvalds
Therefore I am.
Its too crowded.
Rich Cook
18. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
W. Somerset Maugham
Theodore Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
Woody Allen
19. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
Will Durant
Like fire -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Rich Cook
Steven Wright
Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali
21. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Alexander Pope
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
John F. Kennedy
22. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
G. K. Chesterton
John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
23. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
Sun Tzu
Meet any hardship -
Oscar Wilde
24. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Pablo Picasso
It aint over
Ansel Adams
Winston Churchill
25. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Calvin Coolidge
George Bernard Shaw
I conquered.)
26. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Leonardo da Vinci
Maybe this world
After silence -
Saul Bellow
27. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____
Groucho Marx
Margaret Mead
Thomas Edison
Till its over.
28. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____
It just gives.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
I hate quotations.
29. Do - or do not. There is no try.
John Dalberg-Acton
Yoda
Will Durant
Mark Twain
30. 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.
Thomas Edison
Mother Teresa
William Blake
Mark Twain
31. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Muhammad Ali
Laozi
Louis Pasteur
Mark Twain
32. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
You see things;
Margaret Thatcher
Socrates
Aristotle
33. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
There is no try.
Winston Churchill
I - at any rate -
Alexander Pope
34. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Robert Kennedy
Woody Allen
Saint Augustine
Chance favors
35. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Will Rogers
To know everything.
Peter Drucker
Woody Allen
36. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
(I came -
37. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis Carroll
Do - or do not.
And men and dogs
38. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
Mark Twain
I'm a Democrat!
Women and cats
You may delay -
39. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Makes more converts
Cleaning your house
Winston Churchill
Walt Disney
40. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
To utter
Kurt Vonnegut
There are no facts -
Henry David Thoreau
41. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
Mark Twain
What is now proved
Socrates
Theodore Roosevelt
42. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.
Yogi Berra
Speak softly
Yogi Berra
George Carlin
43. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Vince Lombardi
Is a waking dream.
Leonardo da Vinci
Dorothy Parker
44. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Oscar Wilde
Steven Wright
Albert Einstein
Douglas Adams
45. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
But it does rhyme.
46. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
Alan Kay
William Shakespeare
Epictetus
Or get busy dying.
47. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
Wernher Von Braun
Socrates
Oscar Wilde
To find yourself -
48. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Rudyard Kipling
Oscar Wilde
To be the candle
Ronald Reagan
49. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Isaac Newton
Winston Churchill
Will Rogers
50. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Mark Twain
In fact they do so.
Do - or do not.
Edith Wharton