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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. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






2. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






3. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






4. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






5. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






6. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






7. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






8. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






9. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






10. It aint over till its over.






11. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






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






13. You may delay - but time will not.






14. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






15. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






16. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






17. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






18. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






19. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






20. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






21. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






22. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






23. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






24. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






25. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






26. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






27. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






28. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






29. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






30. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






31. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






32. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






33. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






34. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






35. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






36. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






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






38. 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.






39. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






40. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






41. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






42. 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






43. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






44. 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.






45. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!






46. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






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






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






49. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






50. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.