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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Therefore I am.
Socrates
Walt Disney
Voltaire
2. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
George Carlin
Its too crowded.
Without music -
3. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak
Plato
Thomas Edison
It just gives.
4. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
Woody Allen
Mark Twain
Thomas Watson
5. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Alexander Pope
William Shakespeare
I conquered.)
Tom Clancy
6. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
To be the candle
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
And I sayWhy not?
7. If music be the food of love - play on.
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
Is Music
8. 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
Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
Meet any hardship -
Mark Twain
9. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
What is now proved
Will Rogers
William Shakespeare
Cleaning your house
10. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
I saw -
Thomas Aquinas
It is hard to fail -
Scott Adams
11. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
Woody Allen
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
I conquered.)
12. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.
Like philosophy -
Margaret Thatcher
Fears this is true.
Mark Twain
13. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.
Vince Lombardi
Michael Jordan
Its kind of fun
Ronald Reagan
14. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Winston Churchill
To err is human;
Thomas Paine
Bob Dylan
15. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Dwight Eisenhower
George Orwell
Robert Frost
Albert Einstein
16. If music be the food of love - play on.
William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
I think;
17. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
I hate quotations.
I have not failed.
Ronald Reagan
True friends
18. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
John Donne
William Shakespeare
Kurt Vonnegut
And the Universe
19. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Ah! the farce.
Robert Frost
Laozi
Mark Twain
20. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Shakespeare
Albert Einstein
Oscar Levant
21. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
Victor Hugo
There is no art.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
22. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Its inherent virtue
To err is human;
And men and dogs
Pablo Picasso
23. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
Steven Wright
To be the candle
24. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
William Blake
And men and dogs
A witty saying
Mother Teresa
25. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
Socrates
And the Universe
Mark Twain
Do what you can -
26. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Robert Frost
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
27. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
C. S. Lewis
In the gym -
Like fire -
In an hour of play
28. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Is a waking dream.
Peace begins
Plato
Winston Churchill
29. This is like deja vu all over again.
Thomas Paine
Plato
Yogi Berra
Mae West
30. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Benjamin Franklin
William Shakespeare
Peace begins
It is hard to fail -
31. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
Dave Barry
32. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
Mother Teresa
William Shakespeare
Thomas Aquinas
Bill Gates
33. It aint over till its over.
Benjamin Franklin
George Carlin
To find yourself -
Yogi Berra
34. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.
Thomas Jefferson
Aristotle
Muhammad Ali
John Wooden
35. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Wilson Mizner
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
36. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
Voltaire
Take it.
John Milton
Take it.
37. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
William James
Eleanor Roosevelt
Socrates
Leonardo da Vinci
38. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Familiar with few;
Ronald Reagan
Meet any hardship -
Eleanor Roosevelt
39. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
I have not failed.
George Orwell
40. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
George Bernard Shaw
Theodore Roosevelt
Yogi Berra
William Blake
41. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Calvin Coolidge
Winston Churchill
A new nation -
42. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Oscar Levant
Dave Barry
Robert Frost
Walt Disney
43. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Thomas Edison
To invent -
Let us - to the end -
Bertrand Russell
44. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
A new nation -
Get busy living -
Carl Sagan
Plato
45. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
And a pile of junk.
The first principle
John Dalberg-Acton
John F. Kennedy
46. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.
Except temptation.
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
Jonathan Swift
47. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Speak softly
Benjamin Franklin
Socrates
Eleanor Roosevelt
48. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Plato
Niels Bohr
Read only a page.
Silence is golden
49. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
Read only a page.
All over again.
Charles Darwin
50. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
Get busy living -
Peace begins
Therefore I am.
Plato