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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. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____
It just gives.
And men and dogs
I'm a Democrat!
Well done is better
2. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.
Jack Handey
Winston Churchill
John Wooden
Who the hell wants
3. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Thomas Jefferson
Socrates
Patrick Henry
Wisdom begins
4. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
Yoda
It is hard to fail -
An unexamined life
Thomas Paine
5. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Winston Churchill
Jimi Hendrix
Marcel Proust
Saki
6. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Naked people have
John Wooden
Woody Allen
7. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Winston Churchill
Life is pleasant.
Peter Drucker
Michael Jordan
8. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Thomas Edison
Napoleon Bonaparte
Terry Pratchett
Alexander Pope
9. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Robert Frost
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Familiar with few;
10. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Like art...
With a smile.
Alexander Pope
George Carlin
11. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Yogi Berra
HenryFord
Thomas Edison
Simplicity
12. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Is not Eureka!
Yogi Berra
Till its over.
Thomas Edison
13. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
And a pile of junk.
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
Napoleon Bonaparte
14. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Tom Clancy
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Oscar Wilde
15. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Be more concerned
Woody Allen
Robert Frost
William Shakespeare
16. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
John F. Kennedy
Napoleon Bonaparte
Socrates
Isaac Asimov
17. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
I have not failed.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I conquered.)
18. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
Napoleon Bonaparte
Marcel Proust
Familiar with few;
19. Maybe this world is another planets hell.
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
Voltaire
Aldous Huxley
20. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
Oscar Wilde
Ronald Reagan
Saint Augustine
All great truths
21. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
But wisdom listens.
Joseph Stalin
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
22. 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; _____
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bertrand Russell
It tolls for thee.
John F. Kennedy
23. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark Twain
Naked people have
Oscar Wilde
24. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
John Dalberg-Acton
Christopher Morley
Sting like a bee.
George Carlin
25. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Alan Kay
James Branch Cabell
George Bernard Shaw
Margaret Thatcher
26. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the lines -
Muhammad Ali
Benjamin Franklin
27. 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.
Patrick Henry
William Blake
William James
Socrates
28. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.
Familiar with few;
Mother Teresa
Well done is better
Isaac Asimov
29. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Thomas Jefferson
The first principle
William Shakespeare
Scott Adams
30. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
I have not failed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Pablo Picasso
Laozi
31. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Dorothy Parker
Entire of itself;
Mark Twain
John Donne
32. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
W. Somerset Maugham
When people laugh.
33. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Rene Descartes
A new nation -
34. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
(I came -
Entire of itself;
John Wooden
Oscar Wilde
35. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.
Well done is better
Mark Twain
Women and cats
Friedrich Nietzsche
36. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
C. S. Lewis
Ronald Reagan
Speak softly
Cleaning your house
37. 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
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Socrates
And the Macintosh -
38. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Time
This above all
An intolerable one.
Bertrand Russell
39. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Richard P. Feynman
Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
40. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____
Carl Sagan
Joseph Stalin
There is no try.
Woody Allen
41. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Kahlil Gibran
Robert Frost
Leonardo da Vinci
42. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Aristotle
William James
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
43. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
After silence -
In wonder.
John Milton
Henry David Thoreau
44. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
George Bernard Shaw
Victor Hugo
Is another matter.
Leonardo da Vinci
45. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Wit
Alan Kay
Woody Allen
Will Rogers
46. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
47. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Plato
Victor Hugo
Yoda
John F. Kennedy
48. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Wisdom begins
Thomas Jefferson
Scott Adams
Mark Twain
49. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain
Aristotle
Samuel Johnson
50. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____
Rudyard Kipling
Winston Churchill
Is to invent it.
And you say Why?