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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 fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






2. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






3. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






4. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






5. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






6. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






7. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






9. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






10. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






11. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.






12. 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.






13. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






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






15. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






16. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






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






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






19. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






20. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






21. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






22. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






23. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






24. 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.






25. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






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






27. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






28. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






29. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






30. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






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






32. ____ 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






33. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






34. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






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






36. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






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






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






39. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






40. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






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






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






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






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






45. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






47. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






48. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






49. 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






50. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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.







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