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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. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
I think;
Will Durant
Isaac Newton
2. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Margaret Thatcher
Woody Allen
Peace at any price -
3. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Socrates
Winston Churchill
4. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
Socrates
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
You may delay -
5. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Except temptation.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
With what you have -
6. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success is going
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Stephen King
7. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Oscar Wilde
Douglas Adams
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
8. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Peace at any price -
9. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Henry David Thoreau
Plato
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rightly considered.
10. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Veni -
Dwight Eisenhower
Mark Twain
Socrates
11. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
Thomas Jefferson
Oscar Wilde
After silence -
There are no facts -
12. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?
John Lennon
Who the hell wants
Than he finds.
Hope
13. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Will Rogers
Glory is fleeting -
And men and dogs
14. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Aristotle
Than well said.
An intolerable one.
Bertrand Russell
15. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Albert Einstein
Thomas Jefferson
Leonardo da Vinci
Niels Bohr
16. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
17. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Mark Twain
Enemy to none.
Theodore Roosevelt
With what you have -
18. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Wilson Mizner
Vince Lombardi
Thomas Paine
John Donne
19. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Oscar Wilde
Augustine
And a pile of junk.
Mark Twain
20. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Galileo Galilei
Victor Hugo
Andy Warhol
Abraham Lincoln
21. Well done is better than well said.
Always do right--
Robert Frost
Plato
Benjamin Franklin
22. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Louis Pasteur
Vici
Than he finds.
Vince Lombardi
23. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Is not Eureka!
Who the hell wants
Mark Twain
24. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Naked people have
William Shakespeare
Blaise Pascal
25. 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?
Yogi Berra
William Shakespeare
Muhammad Ali
Mark Twain
26. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Who the hell wants
Muhammad Ali
27. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
You may delay -
Thomas Paine
(I came -
28. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
Thomas Aquinas
Bob Dylan
Samuel Johnson
29. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Albert Einstein
Well done is better
Plato
30. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
Robert Frost
With a smile.
Yogi Berra
Therefore I am.
31. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Linus Torvalds
Bertrand Russell
It was here first.
Trust a few -
32. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Yogi Berra
A witty saying
Vici
Jonathan Swift
33. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Douglas Adams
In an hour of play
T. S. Eliot
Benjamin Franklin
34. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
HenryFord
Like art...
Plato
Daniel Webster
35. I think; therefore I am.
Jonathan Swift
Rene Descartes
Read only a page.
Pablo Picasso
36. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.
But blood - toil -
There are painters
Oscar Wilde
Muhammad Ali
37. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
Thomas Edison
Oscar Wilde
Time
Charles Darwin
38. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
G. K. Chesterton
Isaac Newton
Mother Teresa
Pablo Picasso
39. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Is to be one.
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Adams
40. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.
Well done is better
Thomas Jefferson
Oscar Wilde
I conquered.)
41. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Till its over.
Friend to one;
Mark Twain
I think;
42. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Yogi Berra
So - first of all -
Vince Lombardi
HenryFord
43. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.
Terry Pratchett
Voltaire
George Bernard Shaw
True friends
44. 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.
Or Not guilty.
Julius Caesar
Calvin Coolidge
Jack Handey
45. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Than reason.
Victor Hugo
46. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
(I came -
Rudyard Kipling
Except temptation.
Life is pleasant.
47. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry
C. S. Lewis
In an hour of play
Wisdom begins
48. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
An unexamined life
When people laugh.
Yogi Berra
Socrates
49. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
But blood - toil -
The first principle
George S. Patton
Mark Twain
50. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
John F. Kennedy
Richard P. Feynman
Thomas Jefferson