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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Subject
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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. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo
John Milton
Henry David Thoreau
2. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
Where you are.
John F. Kennedy
Familiar with few;
William Blake
3. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____
All over again.
Cleaning your house
Cleaning your house
George Bernard Shaw
4. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Vidi -
Bertrand Russell
H. G. Wells
Decca Recording Co.
5. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____
Laozi
Friedrich Nietzsche
But wisdom listens.
John Wayne
6. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
Bob Dylan
William Shakespeare
Eleanor Roosevelt
I saw -
7. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Life is pleasant.
Thomas Jefferson
With a smile.
Thomas Edison
8. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
An eye for an eye
HenryFord
Richard P. Feynman
9. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Daniel Webster
Entire of itself;
Walt Disney
George Bernard Shaw
10. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
Robert Frost
Saki
Talent will not;
Get busy living -
11. 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.
Albert Einstein
(I came -
Jack Handey
Mark Twain
12. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Thomas Jefferson
Play on.
Vici
Isaac Asimov
13. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Carl Sagan
To err is human;
Oscar Wilde
Leonardo da Vinci
14. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
A witty saying
Must - like men -
And you say Why?
George Bernard Shaw
15. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Plato
You see things;
To know everything.
16. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
It goes on.
Ansel Adams
With a smile.
Do wrong to none.
17. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak
Thomas Paine
H. G. Wells
When people die
18. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
William Shakespeare
Thomas Jefferson
Plato
Socrates
19. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
Henry David Thoreau
Yogi Berra
20. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
It tolls for thee.
And in that faith -
Oscar Wilde
21. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Vince Lombardi
I hate quotations.
With what you have -
Eleanor Roosevelt
22. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Saki
Mother Teresa
It is hard to fail -
23. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
Thomas Paine
Henry David Thoreau
Plato
Where you are.
24. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____
Is a waking dream.
There are painters
Its too crowded.
Benjamin Franklin
25. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.
Proves nothing.
Thomas Paine
Sam Brown
Mark Twain
26. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Victor Hugo
With the very best.
Wilson Mizner
Saint Augustine
27. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
George Orwell
Except temptation.
But time will not.
George Carlin
28. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Is Music
Well done is better
Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion
29. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
And the pessimist
30. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Paul Harvey
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
31. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Henry David Thoreau
Adam Smith
Read only a page.
Winston Churchill
32. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Woody Allen
Ronald Reagan
Dave Barry
33. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.
An unexamined life
W. Somerset Maugham
Stephen Hawking
Mark Twain
34. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
Mother Teresa
Is fear itself
Winston Churchill
35. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
Henry David Thoreau
After silence -
I think;
Winston Churchill
36. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Aldous Huxley
Trust a few -
But time will not.
G. K. Chesterton
37. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
Do what you can -
38. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
Henry David Thoreau
Read only a page.
It aint over
Alexander Pope
39. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Its kind of fun
Winston Churchill
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
40. True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Is showing up.
Thomas Jefferson
Chance favors
41. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Victor Hugo
Thomas Paine
George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill
42. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Jefferson
The chief business
Mark Twain
43. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Entire of itself;
Woody Allen
I think;
Proves nothing.
44. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
Where the spirit
The chief business
Socrates
45. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
Carl Sagan
Mark Twain
Robert Frost
I saw -
46. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
Chance favors
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
A new nation -
47. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Is Music
There is no try.
A witty saying
48. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____
Winston Churchill
Than he finds.
Charles Darwin
It tolls for thee.
49. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Albert Einstein
Michael Jordan
And a pile of junk.
Mark Twain
50. 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.
Muhammad Ali
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
Than he finds.