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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan
Mother Teresa
Richard P. Feynman
William Shakespeare
2. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Simplicity
Aristotle
Religion
Who the hell wants
3. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
To find yourself -
Benjamin Franklin
After silence -
Leonardo da Vinci
4. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Oscar Wilde
Theodore Roosevelt
W. Somerset Maugham
Benjamin Franklin
5. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Napoleon Bonaparte
John F. Kennedy
George Washington
Robert Oppenheimer
6. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Sun Tzu
C. S. Lewis
Patrick Henry
Dave Barry
7. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
I saw -
It was here first.
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
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.
Mark Twain
There are painters
Where the spirit
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Jefferson
Pablo Picasso
G. K. Chesterton
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.
Yogi Berra
Thomas Jefferson
Bertrand Russell
Success is going
11. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Bob Dylan
With what you have -
Time
Socrates
12. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
Yogi Berra
Trust a few -
Every rocket fired -
Linus Torvalds
13. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.
G. K. Chesterton
Ronald Reagan
Phyllis Diller
John F. Kennedy
14. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.
Victor Hugo
Woody Allen
Aristotle
Makes more converts
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.
Will Durant
John F. Kennedy
Albert Einstein
Is to be one.
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.
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
Is another matter.
Where you are.
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.
This above all
Thomas Paine
I think;
The chief business
18. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Woody Allen
G. K. Chesterton
Mark Twain
Calvin Coolidge
19. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
Bob Dylan
Till its over.
20. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Pablo Picasso
Cleaning your house
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
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.
Bertrand Russell
As they are seized.
Will Rogers
Plato
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
Simplicity
Mark Twain
Its inherent virtue
And the Macintosh -
23. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Theodore Roosevelt
And men and dogs
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
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.
Let us - to the end -
With what you have -
Vince Lombardi
Mark Twain
25. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
An eye for an eye
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Groucho Marx
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson
And the Macintosh -
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.
Charles Darwin
Like fire -
Rita Mae Brown
Peace begins
28. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.
George Carlin
Rudyard Kipling
Entire of itself;
In an hour of play
29. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____
But time will not.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Like fire -
30. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
Carl Sagan
Leonardo da Vinci
I think;
But time will not.
31. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.
A witty saying
Saki
Rene Descartes
With what you have -
32. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
Cleaning your house
Saki
Isaac Newton
H. M. Warner
33. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Johnson
Margaret Mead
34. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Love all -
Get busy living -
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
35. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
Will Rogers
George Carlin
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
36. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Mother Teresa
Thomas Paine
C. S. Lewis
Scott Adams
37. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
I conquered.)
Vince Lombardi
Socrates
Thomas Edison
38. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
But time will not.
When people die
Alan Kay
Robert Frost
39. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Ronald Reagan
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Jefferson
Than reason.
40. Wit is well-bred insolence.
Woody Allen
Socrates
Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson
41. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
Isaac Asimov
It is force!
Bertrand Russell
Daniel Webster
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.
George Carlin
As they are seized.
George Bernard Shaw
An eye for an eye
43. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
Blaise Pascal
Mark Twain
Think for yourself.
Do - or do not.
44. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Scott Adams
Isaac Asimov
Albert Einstein
Entire of itself;
45. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Vince Lombardi
Can be wonderful.
John Donne
Winston Churchill
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.
C. S. Lewis
It swears.
Terry Pratchett
Bertrand Russell
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
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
(I came -
Thomas Paine
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Is fear itself
Stephen Hawking
But time will not.
49. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Is never accurate
Louis Pasteur
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
50. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
I conquered.)
Glory is fleeting -
Charles Darwin
Mark Twain