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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. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






2. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






3. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






4. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






5. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






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






7. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






8. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






9. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






10. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






11. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






12. 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.






13. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






14. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






15. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






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






17. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






18. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






19. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






20. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






21. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






22. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






23. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






24. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






25. If music be the food of love - play on.






26. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






27. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






28. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






29. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






30. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






31. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






32. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






33. Hope is a waking dream.






34. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






35. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






36. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






37. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






38. 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.






39. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






40. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






41. He not busy being born is busy dying.






42. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






43. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






44. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






45. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






46. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






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






48. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






49. An unexamined life is not worth living.






50. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.