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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. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






2. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ 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 de






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






4. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






5. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






6. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






7. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






8. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






9. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






10. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






11. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






12. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






13. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






14. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






15. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






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






17. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






18. Time makes more converts than reason.






19. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






20. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






21. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






22. Chance favors the prepared mind.






23. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






24. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






25. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






26. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






27. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






28. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






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






30. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






31. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






32. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






33. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






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






35. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






36. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






37. An unexamined life is not worth living.






38. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






39. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






40. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






41. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






42. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






43. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






44. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






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






46. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






47. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






48. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






49. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






50. You may delay - but time will not.