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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. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






2. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






3. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






4. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






5. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






6. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






7. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






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






9. 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






10. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






11. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






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






13. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






14. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






15. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






16. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






17. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






18. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






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






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






21. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






22. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






23. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






24. He is richest who is content with the least.






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






26. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






27. 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.






28. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






29. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






30. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






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






32. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






33. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






34. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






35. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






36. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






37. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






38. ____ 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






39. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






40. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






41. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






42. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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43. Do - or do not. There is no try.






44. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






45. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






46. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






47. 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.






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






49. You may delay - but time will not.






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