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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. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






2. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






3. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






4. Dwight Eisenhower said: Every gun that is made - every warship launched - _____ signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






5. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






6. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






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






8. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






9. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






10. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






11. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






12. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






13. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






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






15. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






16. 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.






17. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






18. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






19. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






20. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






21. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






22. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






23. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






24. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






25. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






26. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






27. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






28. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






29. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






30. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






31. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






32. 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.






33. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






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






35. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






36. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






37. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






38. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






39. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






40. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






41. Aristotle said: Hope _____






42. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






43. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






44. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






45. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






46. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






47. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






48. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






49. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






50. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.