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Famous Quotes Trivia

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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. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






2. 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.






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






4. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






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






6. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






7. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






8. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






9. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






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






12. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






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






14. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






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






16. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






17. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






18. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






19. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






20. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






21. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






22. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






23. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






24. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






25. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






26. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






27. A witty saying proves nothing.






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






29. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






30. 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. _____






31. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






32. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






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






34. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






35. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






36. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






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






38. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






39. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






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






41. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






42. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






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






44. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






45. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






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






47. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






48. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






49. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






50. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.