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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. 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.






2. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






3. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






4. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






5. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






6. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






7. I can resist everything except temptation.






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






9. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






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.






11. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






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.






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.






14. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






15. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






16. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






17. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






18. The chief business of the American people is business.






19. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






20. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






21. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






22. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






23. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






24. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






25. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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.






27. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






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.






29. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






30. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






31. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






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?






33. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






34. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






35. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






36. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






37. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






38. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






39. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






40. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






41. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






43. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






44. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






45. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






46. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






48. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






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.






50. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.