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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. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






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






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






4. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






5. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






6. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






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






8. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






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






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






11. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






12. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






13. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






14. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






15. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






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






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






18. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






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






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






21. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






23. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






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






25. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






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






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






28. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






29. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






30. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






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






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






33. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






34. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






35. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






36. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






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






38. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






39. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






40. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






41. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






42. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






43. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






44. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






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






46. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






47. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






48. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






49. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






50. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.