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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. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






2. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






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






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






5. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






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






7. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






8. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






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






10. It aint over till its over.






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






12. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






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






15. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






16. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






17. An unexamined life is not worth living.






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






19. 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.






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






21. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






22. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






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






24. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






25. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






26. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






27. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






28. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






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






30. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






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






32. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






33. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






34. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






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






36. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






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






38. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






39. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






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






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






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






43. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






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






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






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






47. Peace begins with a smile.






48. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






49. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






50. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.