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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. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






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






4. The chief business of the American people is business.






5. 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.






6. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






7. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






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






9. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






10. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






11. Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






12. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






13. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






14. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






15. 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






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






17. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






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






19. 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.






20. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






21. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






22. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






23. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






24. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






25. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






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






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






28. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






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






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






31. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






32. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






33. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






34. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






35. To find yourself - think for yourself.






36. 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.






37. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






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






39. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






40. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____






41. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






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






43. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






44. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






45. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






46. 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.






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






48. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






49. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






50. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.