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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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 only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.
There are painters
Rene Descartes
Mark Twain
Michael Jordan
2. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Plato
Than reason.
Socrates
Linus Torvalds
3. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
Its inherent virtue
Plato
Gobble their food -
Paul Harvey
4. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
G. K. Chesterton
Wilson Mizner
Oscar Wilde
Carl Sagan
5. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
Wit
Mark Twain
Yoda
6. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Phyllis Diller
Winston Churchill
Eleanor Roosevelt
Albert Einstein
7. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Like fire -
Margaret Thatcher
Always do right--
Socrates
8. Money doesnt talk - it swears.
But blood - toil -
Charles Darwin
Mother Teresa
Bob Dylan
9. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Vince Lombardi
Ronald Reagan
Than well said.
Like fire -
10. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.
Pablo Picasso
Benjamin Franklin
Rudyard Kipling
Bob Dylan
11. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Yogi Berra
Phyllis Diller
John Donne
Dwight Eisenhower
12. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Oscar Levant
I hate quotations.
Dorothy Parker
Samuel Adams
13. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
W. Somerset Maugham
James Branch Cabell
Dwight Eisenhower
George Carlin
14. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Leonardo da Vinci
To know everything.
Wilson Mizner
Oscar Wilde
15. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
It is hard to fail -
Robert Frost
Socrates
Take it.
16. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
And a pile of junk.
Thomas Paine
It is hard to fail -
George Eliot
17. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
And in that faith -
George Carlin
But wisdom listens.
And in that faith -
18. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Mark Twain
Is to invent it.
Who the hell wants
Winston Churchill
19. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.
Winning is a habit.
Mark Twain
Isaac Asimov
Steven Wright
20. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Yogi Berra
This above all
Wilson Mizner
Vince Lombardi
21. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Bertrand Russell
George Bernard Shaw
Must - like men -
Henry David Thoreau
22. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
Plato
Woody Allen
Scott Adams
Francis Bacon
23. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Yogi Berra
C. S. Lewis
George Carlin
Douglas Adams
24. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.
Samuel Johnson
Woody Allen
Fools rush in
Take it.
25. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Plato
Isaac Asimov
Peace begins
Bob Dylan
26. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Ronald Reagan
William Shakespeare
27. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Mark Twain
Who the hell wants
Albert Einstein
Aldous Huxley
28. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
Woody Allen
Steve Wozniak
John F. Kennedy
29. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Hope
Entire of itself;
Cleaning your house
Mark Twain
30. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Women and cats
It swears.
Benjamin Franklin
There are no facts -
31. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.
Joseph Stalin
Henry David Thoreau
Must - like men -
Stephen Hawking
32. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
C. S. Lewis
Emily Dickinson
George Washington
Dave Barry
33. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?
George Orwell
Albert Einstein
Who the hell wants
The chief business
34. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Peace begins
John F. Kennedy
In the gym -
John F. Kennedy
35. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
And a pile of junk.
Familiar with few;
Voltaire
Napoleon Bonaparte
36. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
And in that faith -
Socrates
But it does rhyme.
William Blake
37. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Plato
Is fear itself
Love all -
Dwight Eisenhower
38. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster
Alan Kay
Socrates
John Wooden
39. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Is business.
Mark Twain
George S. Patton
Mother Teresa
40. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
There are painters
Victor Hugo
Saint Augustine
Take it.
41. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
Tis dearness only
Margaret Mead
Read only a page.
Winston Churchill
42. 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.
Or Not guilty.
I think;
Winston Churchill
Rita Mae Brown
43. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Dalberg-Acton
Muhammad Ali
44. You may delay - but time will not.
It is hard to fail -
Julius Caesar
Benjamin Franklin
Than reason.
45. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
But time will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
John Lennon
46. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Aristotle
With what you have -
Keep going.
Sun Tzu
47. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Mark Twain
Aldous Huxley
Is busy dying.
Winston Churchill
48. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____
Pablo Picasso
Tears and sweat.
Albert Einstein
Jimi Hendrix
49. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
Enemy to none.
Woody Allen
Do what you can -
Oscar Wilde
50. 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 not Eureka!
Edith Wharton
Ansel Adams
William Shakespeare