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






2. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






3. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






4. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






5. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






6. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






7. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.






8. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






9. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






10. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






11. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






12. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?






13. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






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






15. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






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






17. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






18. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






19. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






20. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






21. Well done is better than well said.






22. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






23. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






24. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.






25. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






26. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






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






28. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






29. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






30. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






31. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






32. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






33. 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






34. 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.






35. I think; therefore I am.






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






37. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






42. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






43. 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.






44. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






45. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.