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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. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






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






3. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






4. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






5. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






6. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






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






8. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






9. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






10. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






11. 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.






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






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






14. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






15. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






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






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






18. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






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






20. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






21. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






22. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






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






24. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






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






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






27. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






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






29. Chance favors the prepared mind.






30. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






31. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






32. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






33. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






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






35. 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






36. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






37. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






38. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






39. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






40. True friends stab you in the front.






41. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






42. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






43. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






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






45. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






46. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






47. 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.






48. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






49. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






50. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.