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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. 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.
Isaac Newton
Mark Twain
Jack Handey
Its kind of fun
2. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Socrates
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
George Orwell
3. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.
Paul Harvey
Mother Teresa
Robert Frost
I think;
4. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
Thomas Paine
George Bernard Shaw
Socrates
Henry David Thoreau
5. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____
Ronald Reagan
It swears.
James Branch Cabell
Aldous Huxley
6. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____
George Orwell
Winston Churchill
It just gives.
Is business.
7. I can resist everything except temptation.
Plato
Bob Dylan
Oscar Wilde
Robert Frost
8. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Patrick Henry
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Can be wonderful.
9. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
Napoleon Bonaparte
Epictetus
It is hard to fail -
10. 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
Like fire -
Winston Churchill
I conquered.)
11. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.
To know everything.
Speak softly
A new nation -
Benjamin Franklin
12. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Be more concerned
William Shakespeare
13. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.
Mark Twain
Ah! the farce.
Mahatma Gandhi
Thomas Jefferson
14. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
Take it.
It is force!
And the pessimist
Mother Teresa
15. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.
With what you have -
In an hour of play
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
16. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Mark Twain
Play on.
Where you are.
Samuel Adams
17. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Ah! the farce.
Dwight Eisenhower
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain
18. The chief business of the American people is business.
Yogi Berra
Samuel Johnson
Calvin Coolidge
Mae West
19. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
George Bernard Shaw
Except temptation.
In wonder.
Groucho Marx
20. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
Sting like a bee.
Pablo Picasso
Benjamin Franklin
21. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
I have not failed.
Winston Churchill
Familiar with few;
22. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
The first principle
Thomas Paine
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Watson
23. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It aint over
Yogi Berra
Therefore I am.
Winston Churchill
24. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
William Blake
Winston Churchill
This above all
Meet any hardship -
25. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Plato
Bertrand Russell
Yogi Berra
Money doesnt talk -
26. 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
Voltaire
Bertrand Russell
Thomas Edison
27. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
Talent will not;
Theodore Roosevelt
Woody Allen
An unexamined life
28. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Meet any hardship -
Isaac Newton
George S. Patton
Douglas Adams
29. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Thomas Paine
Scott Adams
Epictetus
John F. Kennedy
30. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Or get busy dying.
Can be wonderful.
And in that faith -
William Shakespeare
31. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Douglas Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Fools rush in
Woody Allen
32. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?
Tom Clancy
Wisdom begins
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
33. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Cleaning your house
Carl Sagan
Fools rush in
Mark Twain
34. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____
Keep going.
George Eliot
Alexander Pope
Blaise Pascal
35. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____
Is Music
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
It swears.
36. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
It swears.
And men and dogs
Ah! the farce.
Winston Churchill
37. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
To know everything.
Where the spirit
Peter Drucker
Mahatma Gandhi
38. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Peter Drucker
Mother Teresa
Woody Allen
Get busy living -
39. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Is Music
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
But it does rhyme.
40. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
Leonardo da Vinci
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
John F. Kennedy
41. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Oscar Wilde
After silence -
Where you are.
Take it.
42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Francis Bacon
Plato
Woody Allen
You see things;
43. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
It swears.
Yogi Berra
Victor Hugo
Thomas Jefferson
44. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Be kind -
In its worst state -
Mel Brooks
Aldous Huxley
45. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Daniel Webster
Mother Teresa
46. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
The prepared mind.
Mark Twain
Do wrong to none.
An unexamined life
47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
I conquered.)
(I came -
Yogi Berra
Dave Barry
48. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Socrates
Fools rush in
Thomas Paine
Socrates
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.
Present
Rene Descartes
Bjarne Stroustrup
It is force!
50. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Winston Churchill
After silence -
Mark Twain
Laozi