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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. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Christopher Morley
2. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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3. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Walt Disney
It goes on.
Mark Twain
Walt Disney
4. 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
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Robert Frost
5. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Aldous Huxley
Every rocket fired -
Yoda
Carl Sagan
6. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Cleaning your house
Aldous Huxley
7. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Oscar Wilde
I hate quotations.
Patrick Henry
Theodore Roosevelt
8. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
To find yourself -
Mark Twain
9. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
It swears.
Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare
10. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Mother Teresa
Robert Frost
C. S. Lewis
H. M. Warner
11. Aristotle said: Hope _____
Steven Wright
Money doesnt talk -
Is a waking dream.
Leonardo da Vinci
12. 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.
Albert Einstein
Money doesnt talk -
Woody Allen
George Bernard Shaw
13. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Socrates
George Orwell
Plato
Mother Teresa
14. 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.
Oscar Wilde
C. S. Lewis
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
15. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____
Read only a page.
Except temptation.
Aristotle
Winston Churchill
16. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Is never accurate
Robert Oppenheimer
Bertrand Russell
Behind the lines -
17. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Where the spirit
18. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.
Vici
Winston Churchill
Francis Bacon
Jack Handey
19. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
In its worst state -
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
Augustine
20. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Stephen Hawking
Oscar Wilde
Let us - to the end -
Mark Twain
21. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Aldous Huxley
Walt Disney
22. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____
John F. Kennedy
John Wooden
Mother Teresa
Is Music
23. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
Chance favors
24. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Robert Frost
Is showing up.
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
25. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
William Blake
Thomas Jefferson
Mother Teresa
Is never accurate
26. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx
Theodore Roosevelt
I hate quotations.
Ansel Adams
27. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert Oppenheimer
Women and cats
Winston Churchill
Rene Descartes
28. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Albert Einstein
Mae West
Death is peaceful.
Marcel Proust
29. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Edith Wharton
It swears.
An intolerable one.
Augustine
30. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Linus Torvalds
And a pile of junk.
31. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Isaac Newton
Vince Lombardi
Is fear itself
Mark Twain
32. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____
Henry David Thoreau
And a pile of junk.
Thomas Paine
Read only a page.
33. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
As they are seized.
Peace begins
34. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Winston Churchill
Do - or do not.
God is a comedian
And you say Why?
35. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Present
C.A.R. Hoare
Thomas Paine
Thomas Edison
36. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
Be more concerned
Trust a few -
Theodore Roosevelt
C. S. Lewis
37. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!
C. S. Lewis
Benjamin Franklin
George Santayana
Proves nothing.
38. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Sun Tzu
Richard P. Feynman
Death is peaceful.
Maybe this world
39. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
And men and dogs
Ronald Reagan
Plato
C. S. Lewis
40. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
It just gives.
Woody Allen
Mother Teresa
Thomas Paine
41. 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.
Douglas Adams
Is fear itself
Socrates
Paul Harvey
42. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Samuel Adams
Time
43. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stephen King
In its worst state -
44. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Hope
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
T. S. Eliot
45. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
It aint over
Jimi Hendrix
And the Universe
Jonathan Swift
46. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Carl Sagan
Calvin Coolidge
Woody Allen
Christopher Morley
47. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci
Carl Sagan
George Santayana
48. 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
Mark Twain
Death is peaceful.
William Shakespeare
49. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
And the Macintosh -
A single soul
Pablo Picasso
Bill Gates
50. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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
Oscar Wilde
There are painters
I conquered.)