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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. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






2. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






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






4. 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






5. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






6. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






7. I think; therefore I am.






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






9. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






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






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






12. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.






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






14. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






15. 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.






16. It aint over till its over.






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






18. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






19. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






20. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






21. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






22. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






23. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






24. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






25. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






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






27. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






28. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






29. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






30. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






31. 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.






32. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






33. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






34. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






35. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






36. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






37. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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






39. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






41. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






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






43. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






44. Wit is well-bred insolence.






45. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






46. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






47. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






48. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






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






50. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.