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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. The chief business of the American people is business.






2. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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3. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






4. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






5. This is like deja vu all over again.






6. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.






7. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






8. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






9. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






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






11. 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.






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






13. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






14. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






15. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






16. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






17. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






18. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






19. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






20. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






21. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






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






23. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.






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






25. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






26. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






27. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






28. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






29. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






30. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






31. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






32. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.






33. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






34. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






35. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






36. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






37. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






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






39. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






40. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






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






42. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






43. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






44. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






45. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






46. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






47. 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.






48. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






49. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






50. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.