Test your basic knowledge |

Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






2. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






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






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






5. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






6. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






7. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






8. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






9. There are painters 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.






10. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






11. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






12. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






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






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






15. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






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






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






18. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






19. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






20. 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






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






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






23. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






24. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






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






26. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






27. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






28. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






29. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






30. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






31. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






32. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






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






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






35. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






36. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






37. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






38. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






39. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






40. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






41. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






42. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






43. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






44. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






45. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






46. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






47. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






48. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






49. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






50. Hope is a waking dream.