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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. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






2. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






3. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






4. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






5. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






6. 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






7. 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.






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






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






10. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






11. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






12. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






13. 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.






14. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






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






16. 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.






17. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






18. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






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






20. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






21. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






22. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






23. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






24. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






25. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






26. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






27. An unexamined life is not worth living.






28. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






29. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






30. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






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






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






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






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






35. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






36. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






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






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






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






40. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe






41. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






42. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






43. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






44. 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.






45. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






46. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






47. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






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






49. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






50. If music be the food of love - play on.