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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. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
And I sayWhy not?
There is no try.
John Wooden
2. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Mae West
Mother Teresa
Patrick Henry
Oscar Wilde
3. 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.
Bertrand Russell
Oscar Wilde
George Washington
It is hard to fail -
4. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Victor Hugo
Dwight Eisenhower
Terry Pratchett
5. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
Scott Adams
The chief business
(I came -
Like fire -
6. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Woody Allen
W. Somerset Maugham
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Paine
7. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
8. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
9. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Maybe this world
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
10. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.
C. S. Lewis
Samuel Johnson
Oscar Wilde
Leonardo da Vinci
11. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
With what you have -
Mother Teresa
12. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Rudyard Kipling
Theodore Roosevelt
Terry Pratchett
Will Rogers
13. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Theodore Roosevelt
George S. Patton
Mark Twain
Bob Dylan
14. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Aldous Huxley
Sting like a bee.
Albert Einstein
Kahlil Gibran
15. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Mark Twain
Voltaire
Jesse Jackson
Dorothy Parker
16. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.
Abraham Lincoln
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
Is never accurate
17. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Is not Eureka!
Glory is fleeting -
Bertrand Russell
Benjamin Franklin
18. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Is to invent it.
Edith Wharton
W. Somerset Maugham
19. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Aquinas
Henry David Thoreau
Veni -
20. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Paine
Robert Kennedy
Thomas Edison
Saint Augustine
21. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Love all -
Talent will not;
Blaise Pascal
Niels Bohr
22. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
William Blake
With a smile.
Time
Wilson Mizner
23. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Let us - to the end -
Carl Sagan
Makes more converts
Except temptation.
24. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
John F. Kennedy
Mother Teresa
Andy Warhol
Socrates
25. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
There are painters
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
26. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Ernest Hemingway
Benjamin Franklin
An intolerable one.
Dwight Eisenhower
27. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Vince Lombardi
Alan Kay
All great truths
The chief business
28. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
William James
Dorothy Parker
I conquered.)
Mark Twain
29. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Joseph Stalin
Plato
Yogi Berra
Winston Churchill
30. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
William Shakespeare
Scott Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Albert Einstein
31. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Religion
After silence -
Mark Twain
Terry Pratchett
32. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Socrates
Take it.
Mother Teresa
Oscar Wilde
33. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Isaac Newton
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Dave Barry
34. An unexamined life is not worth living.
It is force!
Rich Cook
God is a comedian
Socrates
35. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Money doesnt talk -
Oscar Wilde
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
36. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Patrick Henry
Wit
George Carlin
37. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Like fire -
There are painters
Thomas Jefferson
Meet any hardship -
38. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
In the gym -
HenryFord
Richard P. Feynman
Mark Twain
39. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
In its worst state -
H. M. Warner
Plato
Steve Wozniak
40. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Pope
41. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Robert Kennedy
Thomas Edison
A new nation -
James Branch Cabell
42. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____
John Wooden
Aldous Huxley
The first principle
It swears.
43. If you are going through hell - keep going.
John Milton
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Eleanor Roosevelt
44. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
Plato
This above all
45. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
With a smile.
Dorothy Parker
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
46. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
All over again.
Albert Einstein
Time
G. K. Chesterton
47. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Wernher Von Braun
Is to be one.
Peace at any price -
When people laugh.
48. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
Every rocket fired -
Isaac Asimov
Will Rogers
Winston Churchill
49. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Its inherent virtue
And in that faith -
Bjarne Stroustrup
Mark Twain
50. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Will Rogers
Maybe this world