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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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 think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Oscar Wilde
Or get busy dying.
Wit
2. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Bertrand Russell
Plato
Ronald Reagan
Woody Allen
3. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
A witty saying
Oscar Wilde
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
4. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Mother Teresa
It is hard to fail -
Thomas Jefferson
Will Durant
5. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Thomas Paine
Woody Allen
Like fire -
Mae West
6. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Socrates
Mother Teresa
Robert Frost
Thomas Jefferson
7. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Bertrand Russell
C. S. Lewis
H. G. Wells
G. K. Chesterton
8. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Samuel Johnson
Niels Bohr
Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
9. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Leonardo da Vinci
Dave Barry
Thomas Jefferson
Maybe this world
10. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
Success is going
Benjamin Franklin
11. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
Well done is better
Mae West
12. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
Oscar Wilde
Plato
Do what you can -
Oscar Wilde
13. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Sun Tzu
C. S. Lewis
Carl Sagan
Women and cats
14. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
It goes on.
Winston Churchill
Patrick Henry
Margaret Thatcher
15. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Do what you can -
Is a waking dream.
Saki
An intolerable one.
16. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
Oscar Wilde
An unexamined life
Francis Bacon
Winston Churchill
17. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Stephen King
Benjamin Franklin
I have not failed.
Mark Twain
18. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Trust a few -
Speak softly
19. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Mark Twain
Like philosophy -
John Wayne
George Bernard Shaw
20. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
Love all -
There are painters
And I sayWhy not?
21. If music be the food of love - play on.
Oscar Wilde
Dwight Eisenhower
William Shakespeare
Albert Einstein
22. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Chance favors
Silence is golden
Benjamin Franklin
This above all
23. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Aristotle
Is to be one.
Is business.
To be the candle
24. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Thomas Edison
Linus Torvalds
Mark Twain
Rita Mae Brown
25. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Saul Bellow
Albert Einstein
But wisdom listens.
Thomas Jefferson
26. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Socrates
Time
What! You too?
Winston Churchill
27. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Mario Andretti
Peace begins
Plato
Must - like men -
28. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
But it does rhyme.
Dorothy Parker
Like philosophy -
Winston Churchill
29. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.
Rita Mae Brown
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better
George Orwell
30. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
Robert Oppenheimer
Mark Twain
W. Somerset Maugham
And I sayWhy not?
31. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
And a pile of junk.
Is a waking dream.
Alan Kay
Bjarne Stroustrup
32. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Mark Twain
Familiar with few;
Robert Frost
Oscar Wilde
33. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Than reason.
William Shakespeare
34. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Mother Teresa
In an hour of play
William Blake
Winston Churchill
35. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Dwight Eisenhower
All great truths
36. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Bertrand Russell
George S. Patton
Mae West
Mark Twain
37. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Christopher Morley
Is to be one.
George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill
38. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Dwight Eisenhower
Adam Smith
Thomas Edison
Enemy to none.
39. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God is a comedian
William Shakespeare
Mae West
Thomas Jefferson
40. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
Albert Einstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Oscar Wilde
41. Maybe this world is another planets hell.
Aldous Huxley
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
42. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
With a smile.
W. Somerset Maugham
Yogi Berra
Ansel Adams
43. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
James Branch Cabell
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
44. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Albert Einstein
T. S. Eliot
Napoleon Bonaparte
And the Macintosh -
45. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Do wrong to none.
Pablo Picasso
Who the hell wants
Victor Hugo
46. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
Plato
Thomas Jefferson
Henry David Thoreau
Except temptation.
47. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman
What! You too?
Sting like a bee.
Oscar Wilde
48. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Mark Twain
John Wooden
Aldous Huxley
William Shakespeare
49. 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. Thats relativity.
Albert Einstein
I - at any rate -
Peter Drucker
Bertrand Russell
50. 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.
William Shakespeare
Albert Einstein
Get busy living -
Abraham Lincoln