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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. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






2. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






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






4. 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.






5. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






6. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






7. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






8. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






9. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






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






11. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






12. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






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






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






15. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






16. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






17. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






18. 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.






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






20. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.






21. 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.






22. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






23. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






24. Well done is better than well said.






25. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






26. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






27. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






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






29. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






30. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






31. Chance favors the prepared mind.






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






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






34. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






35. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






36. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






37. 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; _____






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






39. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






40. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






41. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






42. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






43. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






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






45. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






46. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






47. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






48. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






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






50. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.