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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Paul Harvey
Bertrand Russell
Mahatma Gandhi
Winston Churchill
2. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Victor Hugo
Rene Descartes
Mark Twain
George Orwell
3. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.
Or get busy dying.
W. Somerset Maugham
Steven Wright
George Bernard Shaw
4. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Maybe this world
Winston Churchill
William Shakespeare
Patrick Henry
5. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Richard P. Feynman
To err is human;
Voltaire
Theodore Roosevelt
6. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
And the Universe
Albert Einstein
John Donne
Margaret Thatcher
7. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And in that faith -
Mark Twain
8. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ah! the farce.
Is to be one.
Rudyard Kipling
9. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
And men and dogs
William James
Pablo Picasso
Winston Churchill
10. 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.
Like art...
Pablo Picasso
Vince Lombardi
Except temptation.
11. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.
John Wooden
Mario Andretti
Yogi Berra
Blaise Pascal
12. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Henry David Thoreau
Patrick Henry
Success is going
John Dalberg-Acton
13. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Chance favors
Carl Sagan
C. S. Lewis
Simplicity
14. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Patrick Henry
Douglas Adams
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark Twain
15. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Abraham Lincoln
Leonardo da Vinci
Or Not guilty.
16. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Thomas Jefferson
Emily Dickinson
Steve Wozniak
Present
17. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Ah! the farce.
Mark Twain
Aristotle
Dave Barry
18. Aristotle said: Hope _____
It is hard to fail -
Is a waking dream.
William Shakespeare
Who the hell wants
19. 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
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Than he finds.
20. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great
Isaac Newton
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
21. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Saki
22. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Woody Allen
Saul Bellow
Muhammad Ali
Well done is better
23. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
Play on.
24. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
What! You too?
Bertrand Russell
All over again.
John F. Kennedy
25. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Or Not guilty.
Oscar Wilde
James Branch Cabell
Mother Teresa
26. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Theodore Roosevelt
John Milton
In an hour of play
Vici
27. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
John Wayne
Saint Augustine
Knowledge speaks -
Peace at any price -
28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Aristotle
Or Not guilty.
A single soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
He is richest
Aristotle
John F. Kennedy
It just gives.
30. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley
Think for yourself.
Isaac Asimov
Rene Descartes
31. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Than well said.
Augustine
Peace at any price -
Mother Teresa
32. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____
Yogi Berra
Thomas Watson
It tolls for thee.
Ronald Reagan
33. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
Plato
A witty saying
Its kind of fun
34. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Oscar Wilde
Michael Jordan
35. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Plato
Wit
Benjamin Franklin
Victor Hugo
36. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
John F. Kennedy
Carl Sagan
Groucho Marx
True friends
37. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Is not Eureka!
John F. Kennedy
Mae West
Patrick Henry
38. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Leonardo da Vinci
Like art...
John F. Kennedy
What is now proved
39. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.
Mark Twain
He is richest
Its inherent virtue
Benjamin Franklin
40. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____
Isaac Asimov
Winston Churchill
Read only a page.
Winston Churchill
41. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
In an hour of play
Thomas Jefferson
Victor Hugo
In fact they do so.
42. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
With what you have -
Steve Wozniak
Mother Teresa
So - first of all -
43. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Niels Bohr
An intolerable one.
Dwight Eisenhower
Entire of itself;
44. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
It just gives.
Enemy to none.
Theodore Roosevelt
Like philosophy -
45. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.
George Carlin
Aldous Huxley
Mark Twain
Silence is golden
46. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Be kind -
Its kind of fun
Plato
Voltaire
47. 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
Woody Allen
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Calvin Coolidge
48. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Vince Lombardi
An unexamined life
And I sayWhy not?
49. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Decca Recording Co.
Mark Twain
50. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?
George Orwell
Like philosophy -
Silence is golden
Who the hell wants