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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. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
With the very best.
George Bernard Shaw
Like philosophy -
The chief business
2. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Benjamin Franklin
Than well said.
Rita Mae Brown
Where the spirit
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Thats relativity.
Mark Twain
I hate quotations.
And I sayWhy not?
4. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
(I came -
And I sayWhy not?
Keep going.
H. G. Wells
5. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
To invent -
Thomas Jefferson
Isaac Asimov
There are painters
6. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
George Carlin
Stephen King
7. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Vici
George Bernard Shaw
Aristotle
Winston Churchill
8. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.
Mark Twain
So - first of all -
Charles Darwin
John F. Kennedy
9. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Groucho Marx
Ronald Reagan
George Bernard Shaw
In the gym -
10. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Play on.
Galileo Galilei
Marcel Proust
11. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Winston Churchill
Saki
C. S. Lewis
What! You too?
12. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
Thomas Edison
Play on.
13. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
Isaac Asimov
Its too crowded.
Joseph Stalin
Ansel Adams
14. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Steve Wozniak
Samuel Adams
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
15. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
It was here first.
Oscar Wilde
Dwight Eisenhower
Will Rogers
16. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
C. S. Lewis
Steve Wozniak
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
17. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Enemy to none.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Makes more converts
Gobble their food -
18. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight Eisenhower
And in that faith -
It swears.
John F. Kennedy
19. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Alan Kay
Its too crowded.
Theodore Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
20. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Dorothy Parker
Be kind -
Peter Drucker
Carl Sagan
21. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
It aint over
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
Life is pleasant.
22. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Patrick Henry
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Is showing up.
23. 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.
Richard Nixon
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
H. M. Warner
24. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
John Dalberg-Acton
Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
Aldous Huxley
25. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Love all -
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Socrates
26. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Mae West
Carl Sagan
George Carlin
Woody Allen
27. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain
To know everything.
William Shakespeare
Must - like men -
28. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Than he finds.
John F. Kennedy
William Shakespeare
29. 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.
Be more concerned
Thomas Jefferson
It goes on.
Leonardo da Vinci
30. 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.
John Lennon
This above all
Yogi Berra
Wisdom begins
31. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.
William Shakespeare
In wonder.
John Milton
To err is human;
32. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Albert Einstein
George Washington
Bertrand Russell
Winston Churchill
33. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Mark Twain
Victor Hugo
Wilson Mizner
Mark Twain
34. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!
A single soul
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dave Barry
Oscar Wilde
35. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Adam Smith
C. S. Lewis
Paul Harvey
Bjarne Stroustrup
36. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Mark Twain
Niels Bohr
Douglas Adams
Socrates
37. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Aldous Huxley
Samuel Adams
38. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Mae West
Leonardo da Vinci
Rita Mae Brown
Edith Wharton
39. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Abraham Lincoln
George Orwell
Steven Wright
John Wayne
40. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Glory is fleeting -
Socrates
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare
41. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
And the pessimist
Do what you can -
William Shakespeare
Mel Brooks
42. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____
You see things;
Samuel Johnson
Muhammad Ali
But time will not.
43. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.
Chance favors
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
George Carlin
44. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Success is going
Makes more converts
Samuel Adams
Thomas Paine
45. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
Do what you can -
Woody Allen
John Wooden
46. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Yogi Berra
Oscar Wilde
Time
Vici
47. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Marcel Proust
W. Somerset Maugham
Voltaire
Plato
48. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.
To err is human;
Is to be one.
Death is peaceful.
Pablo Picasso
49. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Familiar with few;
Than reason.
Carl Sagan
Dave Barry
50. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
I hate quotations.
Decca Recording Co.
True friends
Isaac Asimov