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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. You may delay - but time will not.






2. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






3. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






4. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






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






6. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






7. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






8. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






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






10. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






11. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






12. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






13. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






14. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






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






16. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






17. He not busy being born is busy dying.






18. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






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






20. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






21. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






22. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






23. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






24. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






25. 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.






26. True friends stab you in the front.






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






28. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






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






34. 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.






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






36. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






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






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






39. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






40. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






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






42. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






43. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






44. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






45. He is richest who is content with the least.






46. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






47. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






48. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






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






50. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____