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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. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






2. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






3. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






4. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






5. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






6. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






7. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






8. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






12. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






13. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






14. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






15. 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.






16. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






17. 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.






18. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






19. He not busy being born is busy dying.






20. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






21. 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.






22. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






23. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






24. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






25. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






26. 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.






27. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






28. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






29. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






30. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






31. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






32. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






33. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






34. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






35. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






36. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






37. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






38. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






39. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






40. Wit is well-bred insolence.






41. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






42. 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.






43. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






44. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






45. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






46. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






47. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe






48. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






49. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






50. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____