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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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






3. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






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






5. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.






6. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






7. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






8. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






9. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






10. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






11. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






12. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






13. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






14. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






15. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






16. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






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






18. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






19. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






20. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






21. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






22. 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.






23. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






24. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






25. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






26. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






27. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






28. What is now proved was once only imagined.






29. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






30. 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.






31. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






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






33. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






34. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






35. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






36. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






37. A witty saying proves nothing.






38. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____






39. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






40. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






41. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






42. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






43. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






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






45. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






46. Do - or do not. There is no try.






47. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






48. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






49. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






50. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!