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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






2. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






3. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






4. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






5. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






6. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






7. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






8. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






9. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






10. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






11. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






12. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






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






14. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






15. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






16. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






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






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






19. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






20. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






21. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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






23. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






24. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






25. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






26. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






27. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






28. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






29. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






30. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






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






32. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






33. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






34. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






35. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






36. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






37. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






38. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






39. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






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






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






42. I am not young enough to know everything.






43. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.






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






45. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






46. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






47. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






48. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






49. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






50. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.







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