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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. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






2. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






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






4. Without music - life would be a mistake.






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






6. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






7. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






8. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






9. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






10. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






11. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






12. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






13. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






14. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






15. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






16. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






17. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






18. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






19. This is like deja vu all over again.






20. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






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






22. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






23. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






24. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






25. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






26. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






27. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.






28. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






29. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






30. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






31. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






32. 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.






33. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






34. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






35. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






36. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






37. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






38. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






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






40. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






41. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






42. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






43. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






44. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






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






46. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






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






48. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






49. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






50. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.