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






2. If you are going through hell - keep going.






3. 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.






4. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






5. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






6. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






7. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






8. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






9. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






10. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






11. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






12. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






13. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






15. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






16. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






17. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






18. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






19. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






20. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






21. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






22. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






23. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






24. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






25. There are no facts - only interpretations.






26. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






27. 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.






28. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






29. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






30. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






31. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






32. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






33. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






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






35. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






36. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






37. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






38. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






39. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






40. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






41. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






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






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






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






45. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






46. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






47. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






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






49. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






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