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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. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






2. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






3. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






4. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






5. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






6. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






7. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






8. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






10. 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.






11. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






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






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






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






15. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






16. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






17. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






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






19. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






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






21. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






22. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






23. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






24. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






25. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






26. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






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






28. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






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






30. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






31. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






32. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






33. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






34. Well done is better than well said.






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






36. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






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






39. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






40. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






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






42. 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.






43. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






44. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






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






46. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






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






48. 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






49. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






50. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____