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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. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






2. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






3. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






4. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






5. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






6. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






7. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






8. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






9. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






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






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






12. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






13. 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.






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






15. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






16. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






17. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






18. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






23. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






24. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






25. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






26. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






27. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






28. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






29. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






30. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






31. 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






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






33. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






34. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






35. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






36. 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.






37. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






38. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






39. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






40. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






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






42. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






43. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






44. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






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






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






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






48. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






49. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






50. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.