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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. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






2. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






3. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






4. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






5. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






6. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






7. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






8. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






9. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






10. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






11. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






12. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






13. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






14. Without music - life would be a mistake.






15. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






16. 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.






17. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






18. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






19. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






20. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






21. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






22. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






23. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






24. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






25. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






26. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






27. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






28. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






29. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






30. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






31. 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.






32. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






33. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






34. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






35. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






36. 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.






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






38. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






39. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






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






41. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






42. 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.






43. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






44. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






45. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






46. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






47. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






48. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






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






50. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.