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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. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






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






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






4. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






5. Dwight Eisenhower said: Every gun that is made - every warship launched - _____ signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






6. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






7. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






8. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






9. Without music - life would be a mistake.






10. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






11. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






12. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






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






14. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






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






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






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






18. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






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






20. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






21. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






23. 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; _____






24. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






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






26. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






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






28. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






29. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






30. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






31. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






32. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






33. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






34. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






35. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






36. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






37. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






38. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






39. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






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






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






42. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






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






44. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






45. 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






46. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






47. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






48. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






49. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






50. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.