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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. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Abraham Lincoln
Yogi Berra
Napoleon Bonaparte
Socrates
2. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Except temptation.
Plato
Women and cats
Thomas Edison
3. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
Saul Bellow
4. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Margaret Thatcher
Than reason.
Robert Kennedy
Mark Twain
5. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Talent will not;
Is business.
Wernher Von Braun
Friend to one;
6. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
G. K. Chesterton
Voltaire
Winston Churchill
Eleanor Roosevelt
7. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.
I conquered.)
Benjamin Franklin
But blood - toil -
Thomas Jefferson
8. A witty saying proves nothing.
Aldous Huxley
Eleanor Roosevelt
Voltaire
Theodore Roosevelt
9. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
Proves nothing.
Rene Descartes
The prepared mind.
10. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
John F. Kennedy
Jack Handey
Mel Brooks
Where the spirit
11. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Mead
When people laugh.
12. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
Socrates
Tis dearness only
Wernher Von Braun
Winston Churchill
13. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.
Winston Churchill
Or get busy dying.
It goes on.
In an hour of play
14. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
Mark Twain
Do what you can -
To be the candle
Gobble their food -
15. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.
Rudyard Kipling
C. S. Lewis
After silence -
Winston Churchill
16. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Paine
A single soul
In the gym -
17. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____
Oscar Wilde
To utter
Robert Frost
Its too crowded.
18. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.
In the gym -
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
Do - or do not.
19. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Jonathan Swift
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sting like a bee.
With a smile.
20. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.
Voltaire
Mark Twain
Socrates
Benjamin Franklin
21. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Dwight Eisenhower
Socrates
22. Money doesnt talk - it swears.
Bob Dylan
Can be wonderful.
Aristotle
And men and dogs
23. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.
C. S. Lewis
And the pessimist
Samuel Adams
Aristotle
24. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
And the Macintosh -
Vidi -
Is never accurate
When people laugh.
25. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.
It goes on.
Vince Lombardi
Winston Churchill
G. K. Chesterton
26. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
27. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Francis Bacon
Thomas Paine
Naked people have
28. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Plato
Mark Twain
Do - or do not.
William Shakespeare
29. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Mark Twain
With a smile.
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
30. 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.
Will Rogers
Therefore I am.
Oscar Wilde
Is fear itself
31. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
What! You too?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
Dave Barry
32. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
George Orwell
Dwight Eisenhower
Jonathan Swift
Albert Einstein
33. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Christopher Morley
A single soul
Patrick Henry
Galileo Galilei
34. 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.
Thomas Edison
Cleaning your house
John Donne
To be the candle
35. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Albert Einstein
And a pile of junk.
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Eliot
36. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Oscar Wilde
Socrates
Dave Barry
Rightly considered.
37. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Paine
38. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Terry Pratchett
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Calvin Coolidge
39. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
And the pessimist
I conquered.)
It is force!
Is business.
40. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
Jonathan Swift
Bob Dylan
Epictetus
But blood - toil -
41. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
What! You too?
I hate quotations.
Rene Descartes
Meet any hardship -
42. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Daniel Webster
James Branch Cabell
Saki
43. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain
Aldous Huxley
In an hour of play
As they are seized.
44. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Its too crowded.
George Washington
Peace begins
Winston Churchill
45. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Wisdom begins
Leonardo da Vinci
And men and dogs
46. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?
George Washington
Mother Teresa
Who the hell wants
George Washington
47. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Is business.
Stephen Hawking
Maybe this world
C. S. Lewis
48. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
Linus Torvalds
H. G. Wells
Yogi Berra
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____
It swears.
And the Universe
John Wooden
Eleanor Roosevelt
50. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Michael Jordan
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
Than reason.