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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. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






2. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






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






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






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






6. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






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






8. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






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






10. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






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






12. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






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






14. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






15. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






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






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






18. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






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






20. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






21. 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.






22. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






23. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






24. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






25. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






26. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






27. 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






28. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






29. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






30. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






31. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






32. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






33. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






34. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






35. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






36. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






37. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






38. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






39. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






40. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






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






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






43. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






44. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






45. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






46. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






47. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






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






49. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






50. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.







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