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






2. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






3. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






4. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






5. 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.






6. Dwight Eisenhower said: Every gun that is made - every warship launched - _____ signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






7. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






8. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






9. 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.






10. To find yourself - think for yourself.






11. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






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






13. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






14. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






15. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






16. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






17. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






18. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






19. A witty saying proves nothing.






20. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






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






22. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






23. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






24. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.






25. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






26. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






27. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






28. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






29. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






30. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






31. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






32. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






33. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






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






35. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






36. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






37. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






38. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






39. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






40. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






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






42. 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.






43. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






44. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






45. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






46. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






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






48. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






49. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






50. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.