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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Mae West
Plato
Winston Churchill
2. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Or get busy dying.
Mark Twain
And the Universe
3. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
Alexander Pope
4. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Chance favors
In its worst state -
Eleanor Roosevelt
5. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster
Laozi
Yogi Berra
Woody Allen
6. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____
Woody Allen
Patrick Henry
Is another matter.
When people laugh.
7. 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.
Pablo Picasso
Niels Bohr
George Bernard Shaw
Lewis Carroll
8. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Disney
Oscar Wilde
Alan Kay
9. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
All great truths
An intolerable one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oscar Levant
10. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Is a waking dream.
Groucho Marx
Bjarne Stroustrup
Ansel Adams
11. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
Henry David Thoreau
Blaise Pascal
Mark Twain
Mother Teresa
12. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Silence is golden
Joseph Stalin
Mark Twain
I hate quotations.
13. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Makes more converts
H. G. Wells
Like art...
But it does rhyme.
14. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
Aldous Huxley
But time will not.
Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
15. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Mark Twain
Mario Andretti
Let us - to the end -
Rita Mae Brown
16. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
G. K. Chesterton
Vince Lombardi
Think for yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
17. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Thomas Paine
Bertrand Russell
Sting like a bee.
Thomas Jefferson
18. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Mae West
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Aquinas
Plato
19. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Steven Wright
Ronald Reagan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oscar Wilde
20. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
Oscar Wilde
Its too crowded.
William Shakespeare
John Milton
21. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Jefferson
22. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
And I sayWhy not?
John Wooden
Yogi Berra
23. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Vici
24. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Epictetus
George Bernard Shaw
The chief business
Winston Churchill
25. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
George Washington
George Bernard Shaw
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Paine
26. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Henry David Thoreau
A new nation -
27. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great
Its inherent virtue
Can be wonderful.
Isaac Newton
The chief business
28. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Voltaire
George Orwell
And the Macintosh -
Benjamin Franklin
29. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Entire of itself;
Mark Twain
It was here first.
Oscar Wilde
30. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Is another matter.
Meet any hardship -
An intolerable one.
Socrates
31. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Alexander Pope
Rightly considered.
And you say Why?
Mark Twain
32. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Socrates
33. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
Winston Churchill
34. 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.
There is no try.
Socrates
Bertrand Russell
Abraham Lincoln
35. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Darwin
Thomas Paine
Douglas Adams
36. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight Eisenhower
Where the spirit
Groucho Marx
Paul Harvey
37. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Friedrich Nietzsche
It was here first.
Richard P. Feynman
38. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Voltaire
Bjarne Stroustrup
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
39. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
There are no facts -
Mark Twain
An unexamined life
Victor Hugo
40. Do - or do not. There is no try.
Mae West
Yoda
Money doesnt talk -
Mother Teresa
41. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Winston Churchill
To know everything.
Albert Einstein
42. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Peace at any price -
Vici
Kahlil Gibran
Voltaire
43. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
Benjamin Franklin
I saw -
As they are seized.
Thomas Paine
44. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Adam Smith
Thomas Jefferson
Friend to one;
There are painters
45. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Or Not guilty.
Its kind of fun
Pablo Picasso
John F. Kennedy
46. Aristotle said: Hope _____
Julius Caesar
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Is a waking dream.
47. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
Sun Tzu
Thomas Jefferson
Isaac Asimov
Pablo Picasso
48. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
Can be wonderful.
Except temptation.
49. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Francis Bacon
Peace begins
Cleaning your house
Proves nothing.
50. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Patrick Henry
After silence -
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso