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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. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






2. 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.






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






4. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






5. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






6. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






7. 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






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






9. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






10. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






17. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






18. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






19. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






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






21. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






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






23. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






24. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






25. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






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






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






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






29. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






30. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






31. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. Peace begins with a smile.






37. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






38. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






39. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






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






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






42. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






43. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






44. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






45. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






46. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






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






48. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






49. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






50. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.