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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. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






2. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






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






4. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






5. Wisdom begins in wonder.






6. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






7. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






8. You may delay - but time will not.






9. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






10. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






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






12. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






13. 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.






14. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






15. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






16. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






17. 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.






18. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






19. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






20. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






21. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






22. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






23. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






24. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






25. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






26. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






27. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






28. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






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






30. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






31. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






32. 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.






33. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






34. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






35. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






36. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






37. 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.






38. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






39. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






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






41. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






42. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






43. 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






44. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






45. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






46. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






48. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!






49. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






50. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.