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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. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
George Carlin
Walt Disney
John Dalberg-Acton
2. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Augustine
Death is peaceful.
Winston Churchill
George Washington
3. Do - or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
Love all -
Mark Twain
Carl Sagan
4. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.
Tis dearness only
And the Universe
You may delay -
Socrates
5. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Present
Do what you can -
6. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Henry David Thoreau
Dwight Eisenhower
Mahatma Gandhi
Woody Allen
7. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
Linus Torvalds
Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace at any price -
George Eliot
8. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Like philosophy -
Will Durant
Is fear itself
George Carlin
9. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Stephen King
Vidi -
Socrates
George Bernard Shaw
10. A witty saying proves nothing.
John Dalberg-Acton
Mother Teresa
Voltaire
C. S. Lewis
11. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Woody Allen
Familiar with few;
Oscar Wilde
Peace begins
12. You may delay - but time will not.
Fools rush in
Benjamin Franklin
With what you have -
Woody Allen
13. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Rudyard Kipling
Money doesnt talk -
Bertrand Russell
Aldous Huxley
14. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
John Milton
Chance favors
15. 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
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Einstein
Woody Allen
16. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Richard Nixon
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Time
17. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
What! You too?
Samuel Adams
Vince Lombardi
18. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Yogi Berra
Be kind -
Trust a few -
With a smile.
19. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
And in that faith -
Thomas Jefferson
20. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Mark Twain
In an hour of play
Peace begins
Oscar Wilde
21. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Winston Churchill
Its too crowded.
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
22. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
It goes on.
Edith Wharton
Bertrand Russell
Eleanor Roosevelt
23. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
Vince Lombardi
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
24. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Aldous Huxley
William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo
In wonder.
25. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
All great truths
Henry David Thoreau
Will Rogers
John Donne
26. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Its kind of fun
Thomas Jefferson
Jimi Hendrix
27. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Theodore Roosevelt
What is now proved
And the Universe
28. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Dwight Eisenhower
Mother Teresa
Chance favors
Every rocket fired -
29. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Peace begins
Oscar Wilde
Except temptation.
Mark Twain
30. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.
C. S. Lewis
To err is human;
Theodore Roosevelt
Makes more converts
31. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Benjamin Franklin
Augustine
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
32. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
It swears.
In fact they do so.
33. Chance favors the prepared mind.
George Carlin
Louis Pasteur
William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin
34. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
Always do right--
Socrates
Glory is fleeting -
35. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Yogi Berra
But blood - toil -
Mel Brooks
Mark Twain
36. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Laozi
Winston Churchill
John Lennon
There are no facts -
37. 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.
Alexander Pope
Thomas Edison
Linus Torvalds
Victor Hugo
38. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
Bill Gates
39. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
40. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
The chief business
Edith Wharton
It is hard to fail -
Thomas Jefferson
41. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Ah! the farce.
To err is human;
42. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Robert Oppenheimer
Mario Andretti
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Carlin
43. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Makes more converts
To find yourself -
Socrates
Or Not guilty.
44. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.
C.A.R. Hoare
Jonathan Swift
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
45. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.
Peace begins
William Shakespeare
Voltaire
Will Rogers
46. If music be the food of love - play on.
In its worst state -
Trust a few -
William Shakespeare
Kahlil Gibran
47. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Is to invent it.
George Bernard Shaw
John Lennon
Dave Barry
48. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
You may delay -
Voltaire
Leonardo da Vinci
What is now proved
49. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Be more concerned
And the Universe
Think for yourself.
50. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
Yogi Berra
Is never accurate
Think for yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte