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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. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
Entire of itself;
You see things;
Oscar Levant
Theodore Roosevelt
2. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Chance favors
Thomas Edison
Samuel Adams
3. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Winston Churchill
And a pile of junk.
Winston Churchill
Theodore Roosevelt
4. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Entire of itself;
William Shakespeare
As they are seized.
Where you are.
5. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Plato
Socrates
Cleaning your house
John Donne
6. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
Be kind -
What! You too?
Fools rush in
7. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Isaac Asimov
Thomas Jefferson
Leonardo da Vinci
8. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Will Durant
Marcel Proust
The prepared mind.
And men and dogs
9. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Plato
Is not Eureka!
Thomas Jefferson
10. It aint over till its over.
Aldous Huxley
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
Hope
11. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Women and cats
12. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
An unexamined life
Death is peaceful.
Dave Barry
Rich Cook
13. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Walt Disney
Alexander Pope
William Shakespeare
14. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Jefferson
Rightly considered.
John Wooden
15. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____
It swears.
Woody Allen
Ronald Reagan
Simplicity
16. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
I have not failed.
Vidi -
Simplicity
To invent -
17. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Mark Twain
Play on.
Woody Allen
Socrates
18. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Wernher Von Braun
Winston Churchill
Samuel Adams
Dwight Eisenhower
19. 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.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Time
George Orwell
20. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Entire of itself;
Let us - to the end -
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
21. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Plato
Robert Oppenheimer
Mark Twain
Saul Bellow
22. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.
There are painters
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Glory is fleeting -
23. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Richard P. Feynman
The prepared mind.
Mark Twain
24. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Dave Barry
Isaac Asimov
Thomas Jefferson
George Bernard Shaw
25. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
26. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
Emily Dickinson
Carl Sagan
It goes on.
Mel Brooks
27. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Edison
C. S. Lewis
Take it.
28. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Phyllis Diller
T. S. Eliot
Mark Twain
Sun Tzu
29. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wernher Von Braun
Benjamin Franklin
Meet any hardship -
30. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Plato
Robert Heinlein
T. S. Eliot
Like philosophy -
31. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Rene Descartes
George Washington
Always do right--
Mahatma Gandhi
32. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
William Shakespeare
Is to be one.
Will Rogers
Patrick Henry
33. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
Than well said.
Thomas Paine
Peace begins
34. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.
Edith Wharton
Do - or do not.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
35. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Ernest Hemingway
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
Richard Nixon
36. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Plato
Robert Frost
It is force!
37. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
When people die
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
38. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
39. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Knowledge speaks -
40. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.
Naked people have
Think for yourself.
Richard Nixon
Sun Tzu
41. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.
H. G. Wells
George Carlin
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Is to be one.
William Blake
You see things;
Simplicity
43. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
And men and dogs
Plato
Charles Darwin
Thomas Jefferson
44. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Groucho Marx
Dwight Eisenhower
John Donne
Mark Twain
45. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Ronald Reagan
Bjarne Stroustrup
Calvin Coolidge
Mark Twain
46. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Asimov
Dorothy Parker
Blaise Pascal
47. Peace begins with a smile.
Thomas Paine
Yoda
Mother Teresa
Bob Dylan
48. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Michael Jordan
Is busy dying.
Thomas Paine
Present
49. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Darwin
Aldous Huxley
50. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
W. Somerset Maugham
To utter
Charles Darwin