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






2. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






3. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






4. 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.






5. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






6. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






7. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






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






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






10. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






11. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






12. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






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






14. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






15. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






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






17. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






18. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






19. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






20. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






21. 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.






22. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






23. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






24. 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.






25. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






26. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






27. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






28. 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.






29. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






30. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






31. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






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






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






34. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






35. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






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






37. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






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






39. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






40. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






41. 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.






42. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






43. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






44. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






45. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






46. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






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






48. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






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






50. 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