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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. Time makes more converts than reason.






2. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






3. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






4. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






5. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






6. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






7. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






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






9. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






10. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






11. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






12. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






13. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






14. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






15. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






16. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






17. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






18. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






19. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






20. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






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






22. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






23. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






24. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






25. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






26. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






27. 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.






28. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






29. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






30. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






31. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






32. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






33. 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.






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






35. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






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






37. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






38. 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






39. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






40. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






41. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






42. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






43. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






44. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






45. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






46. Well done is better than well said.






47. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






48. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






49. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






50. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.