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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Socrates
Read only a page.
Adam Smith
Alan Kay
2. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Take it.
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
Adam Smith
3. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
Alexander Pope
Winston Churchill
William Blake
4. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Get busy living -
Chance favors
Samuel Adams
5. 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.
And the pessimist
Every rocket fired -
Oscar Levant
Margaret Thatcher
6. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
Winston Churchill
Love all -
Get busy living -
Hope
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
Muhammad Ali
Winning is a habit.
Bill Gates
Francis Bacon
8. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown
H. G. Wells
Keep going.
William Shakespeare
9. Without music - life would be a mistake.
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzsche
It aint over
William Shakespeare
10. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
To utter
Aldous Huxley
Get busy living -
Henry David Thoreau
11. 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.
Mark Twain
Rene Descartes
Yogi Berra
Ronald Reagan
12. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.
George Bernard Shaw
Will Rogers
Mother Teresa
Dave Barry
13. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
And the pessimist
Proves nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
14. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____
Where the spirit
Thomas Jefferson
But wisdom listens.
A witty saying
15. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Socrates
But time will not.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Mark Twain
16. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Albert Einstein
Emily Dickinson
You may delay -
But it does rhyme.
17. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
Than reason.
Its inherent virtue
18. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!
Thomas Paine
C. S. Lewis
I conquered.)
Bill Gates
19. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Dave Barry
Robert Frost
Aldous Huxley
Play on.
20. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Winston Churchill
An eye for an eye
Isaac Asimov
Groucho Marx
21. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
After silence -
Thomas Paine
Meet any hardship -
Isaac Asimov
22. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Carl Sagan
I hate quotations.
Dave Barry
Woody Allen
23. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____
John Donne
Be more concerned
It tolls for thee.
The chief business
24. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Take it.
25. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Alexander Pope
Napoleon Bonaparte
C. S. Lewis
Its inherent virtue
26. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Jesse Jackson
Winston Churchill
Keep going.
Saul Bellow
27. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
Plato
So - first of all -
28. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Naked people have
George Bernard Shaw
Friend to one;
29. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Margaret Mead
Marcel Proust
Benjamin Franklin
As they are seized.
30. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
George Bernard Shaw
To utter
Jimi Hendrix
Therefore I am.
31. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Dwight Eisenhower
It is hard to fail -
John F. Kennedy
Leonardo da Vinci
32. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Leonardo da Vinci
Margaret Mead
Julius Caesar
Mark Twain
33. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.
Winston Churchill
Voltaire
Albert Einstein
W. Somerset Maugham
34. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great
Mark Twain
Isaac Newton
Emily Dickinson
C. S. Lewis
35. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
John Lennon
George Bernard Shaw
36. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Oscar Wilde
Therefore I am.
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln
37. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
You see things;
Thomas Paine
Margaret Thatcher
Paul Harvey
38. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Samuel Johnson
Terry Pratchett
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
39. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson
John Wooden
Wilson Mizner
Yogi Berra
40. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Mahatma Gandhi
Dave Barry
Thats relativity.
41. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye
Thomas Jefferson
An unexamined life
Rich Cook
42. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Maybe this world
Robert Kennedy
Marcel Proust
Like fire -
43. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Vince Lombardi
It is hard to fail -
Vidi -
Dave Barry
44. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
William Shakespeare
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Jefferson
Oscar Wilde
45. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe
Thomas Jefferson
Calvin Coolidge
Theodore Roosevelt
Time
46. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Ronald Reagan
An intolerable one.
Samuel Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt
47. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.
John Dalberg-Acton
Victor Hugo
Blaise Pascal
Francis Bacon
48. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.
Scott Adams
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
George Orwell
49. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Joseph Stalin
Socrates
Thomas Aquinas
Saki
50. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Blaise Pascal
Success is going
To be the candle