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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. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Socrates
Must - like men -
Hope
Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Robert Kennedy
Patrick Henry
I have not failed.
It goes on.
3. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Samuel Johnson
Mahatma Gandhi
Friend to one;
To utter
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
Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson
Is a waking dream.
Bill Gates
5. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Bernard Shaw
Dave Barry
George Washington
Play on.
6. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Yogi Berra
Jimi Hendrix
Proves nothing.
Aldous Huxley
7. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____
The first principle
And I sayWhy not?
Leonardo da Vinci
It just gives.
8. Maybe this world is another planets hell.
Aldous Huxley
William Shakespeare
And the Macintosh -
Douglas Adams
9. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Meet any hardship -
William Shakespeare
Women and cats
John Wooden
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.
Thomas Paine
Margaret Thatcher
Familiar with few;
Mark Twain
11. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.
You may delay -
Oscar Wilde
Vince Lombardi
Than well said.
12. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Chance favors
Socrates
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
13. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Marcel Proust
Winston Churchill
John Wayne
14. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Vidi -
Keep going.
15. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.
To find yourself -
It tolls for thee.
Winston Churchill
To be the candle
16. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
John Milton
Think for yourself.
Plato
George Bernard Shaw
17. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Niels Bohr
Women and cats
Yogi Berra
18. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Pablo Picasso
Jonathan Swift
Winston Churchill
A witty saying
19. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
To utter
Like philosophy -
It is hard to fail -
Abraham Lincoln
20. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
It goes on.
Julius Caesar
Abraham Lincoln
Yogi Berra
21. Money doesnt talk - it swears.
Bob Dylan
Bertrand Russell
Trust a few -
Mark Twain
22. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Its too crowded.
Robert Frost
He is richest
23. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Albert Einstein
Mother Teresa
Pablo Picasso
But blood - toil -
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.
Andy Warhol
Dwight Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
Is never accurate
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.
Speak softly
Silence is golden
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
26. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
It aint over
Friend to one;
27. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
After silence -
Woody Allen
Is not Eureka!
Saki
28. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
Hope
There are no facts -
Voltaire
Robert Frost
29. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Yogi Berra
Voltaire
30. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
In wonder.
Mark Twain
Chance favors
Michael Jordan
31. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Terry Pratchett
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
James Branch Cabell
32. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Mark Twain
Mae West
John Donne
Socrates
33. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Or get busy dying.
Thomas Edison
Mother Teresa
Dave Barry
34. Well done is better than well said.
Pablo Picasso
Mahatma Gandhi
Benjamin Franklin
Napoleon Bonaparte
35. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Ronald Reagan
Be more concerned
A new nation -
36. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
George Bernard Shaw
Familiar with few;
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
37. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Entire of itself;
Adam Smith
Theodore Roosevelt
Life is pleasant.
38. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Peace at any price -
And a pile of junk.
I hate quotations.
Thomas Edison
39. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oscar Wilde
Ah! the farce.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Play on.
Victor Hugo
Plato
Let us - to the end -
41. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Mark Twain
Joseph Stalin
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
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.
Ernest Hemingway
As they are seized.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
43. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
With a smile.
Calvin Coolidge
Will Rogers
Laozi
44. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.
Margaret Thatcher
Plato
Niels Bohr
Carl Sagan
45. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin
Veni -
Epictetus
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Bertrand Russell
Will Rogers
Be more concerned
So - first of all -
47. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.
Mel Brooks
Isaac Newton
Lewis Carroll
Michael Jordan
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
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Jefferson
As they are seized.
Douglas Adams
49. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
Be kind -
Thomas Paine
(I came -
It is hard to fail -
50. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
In its worst state -
Mark Twain
Than well said.
Success is going