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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. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
Without music -
Oscar Wilde
Charles Darwin
John Milton
2. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.
With what you have -
Lewis Carroll
Thomas Edison
Edith Wharton
3. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Niels Bohr
Maybe this world
Mark Twain
Victor Hugo
4. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____
George Eliot
Leonardo da Vinci
Jesse Jackson
Or get busy dying.
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.
This above all
George Bernard Shaw
Carl Sagan
There is no try.
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.
Edith Wharton
Every rocket fired -
Patrick Henry
Mark Twain
7. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight Eisenhower
Keep going.
Henry David Thoreau
Rightly considered.
8. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
In its worst state -
Friedrich Nietzsche
Winston Churchill
Friend to one;
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.
Alexander Pope
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Calvin Coolidge
10. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Robert Frost
Friend to one;
Than reason.
Socrates
11. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
Victor Hugo
Winston Churchill
Plato
Thomas Aquinas
12. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
William Shakespeare
Or get busy dying.
Socrates
Dorothy Parker
13. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
Steve Wozniak
Stephen King
Henry David Thoreau
14. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
John Lennon
Eleanor Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
15. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Niels Bohr
Robert Frost
What is now proved
Play on.
16. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Patrick Henry
Bjarne Stroustrup
Except temptation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
17. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Voltaire
Yogi Berra
Albert Einstein
Ronald Reagan
18. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin
Do wrong to none.
Groucho Marx
Woody Allen
19. A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
Napoleon Bonaparte
True friends
Mark Twain
20. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Paine
Mother Teresa
21. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Winston Churchill
John Wooden
Charles Darwin
Is fear itself
22. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.
Do - or do not.
William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
23. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Than he finds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
John Donne
Joseph Stalin
William Blake
Mel Brooks
25. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Stephen King
Ah! the farce.
Oscar Wilde
Will Rogers
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.
Pablo Picasso
George Washington
A witty saying
Oscar Wilde
27. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
William James
Voltaire
Mark Twain
Except temptation.
28. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Benjamin Franklin
Maybe this world
Peace begins
Winston Churchill
29. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
Yoda
30. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.
C. S. Lewis
Napoleon Bonaparte
Is busy dying.
John F. Kennedy
31. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Daniel Webster
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.
Its inherent virtue
Winston Churchill
Thomas Watson
Galileo Galilei
33. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____
Albert Einstein
In fact they do so.
Muhammad Ali
William Shakespeare
34. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
I think;
Isaac Asimov
35. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
Take it.
Dwight Eisenhower
John Wooden
Its kind of fun
36. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
It is hard to fail -
Wisdom begins
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
37. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
It tolls for thee.
Rich Cook
Yogi Berra
Stephen King
38. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Yogi Berra
Well done is better
Theodore Roosevelt
When people die
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.
George Carlin
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
C. S. Lewis
40. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Jefferson
41. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
Robert Oppenheimer
I conquered.)
John Lennon
And the Macintosh -
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Aristotle
Mario Andretti
Mark Twain
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.
Saint Augustine
C. S. Lewis
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mother Teresa
44. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Life is pleasant.
Thomas Edison
Can be wonderful.
Meet any hardship -
45. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.
Patrick Henry
Peace at any price -
Plato
Woody Allen
46. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Woody Allen
George Orwell
Plato
47. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Love all -
A single soul
Oscar Wilde
Mother Teresa
48. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Victor Hugo
49. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Franklin
Jimi Hendrix
50. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
In wonder.
Mark Twain
Isaac Newton
Mario Andretti