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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. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Robert Oppenheimer
Bertrand Russell
Muhammad Ali
2. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.
Plato
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
Wisdom begins
3. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Stephen King
An eye for an eye
Kurt Vonnegut
Think for yourself.
4. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Thomas Aquinas
In fact they do so.
Theodore Roosevelt
Bertrand Russell
5. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
This above all
Mark Twain
Richard P. Feynman
Winston Churchill
6. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.
George Washington
Blaise Pascal
Groucho Marx
God is a comedian
7. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
Jesse Jackson
Winston Churchill
And I sayWhy not?
Robert Heinlein
8. Money doesnt talk - it swears.
Winston Churchill
Cleaning your house
Bob Dylan
There are painters
9. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Ronald Reagan
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
10. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Muhammad Ali
Winston Churchill
Aristotle
Glory is fleeting -
11. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.
Ah! the farce.
Aristotle
Thats relativity.
Decca Recording Co.
12. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.
Well done is better
What is now proved
Walt Disney
Mark Twain
13. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.
Oscar Levant
Socrates
Muhammad Ali
Ronald Reagan
14. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Marcel Proust
George Washington
Meet any hardship -
Winston Churchill
15. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____
Till its over.
Mark Twain
Wit
Behind the lines -
16. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
William Shakespeare
Robert Oppenheimer
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Jordan
17. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Ansel Adams
Niels Bohr
As they are seized.
Marcel Proust
18. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk
Phyllis Diller
Christopher Morley
Adam Smith
All great truths
19. 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.
Rightly considered.
Leonardo da Vinci
Is to invent it.
William Shakespeare
20. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Jesse Jackson
Dave Barry
Muhammad Ali
21. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Bertrand Russell
Think for yourself.
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
22. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Kahlil Gibran
Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson
23. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
Richard Nixon
Will Durant
I saw -
24. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
It tolls for thee.
Margaret Mead
Yogi Berra
25. To be - or not to be - That is the question.
John Wayne
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
William Shakespeare
26. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
Mark Twain
Stephen Hawking
Robert Frost
There are no facts -
27. 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.
Ronald Reagan
To utter
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
28. 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.
Mother Teresa
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
And in that faith -
29. 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.
Naked people have
Epictetus
Lewis Carroll
John Donne
30. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
George Orwell
John F. Kennedy
C. S. Lewis
31. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Isaac Newton
Socrates
Plato
Mark Twain
32. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Without music -
Ronald Reagan
William Blake
33. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
A witty saying
George Bernard Shaw
Daniel Webster
Aldous Huxley
34. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
Leonardo da Vinci
And a pile of junk.
A single soul
Winston Churchill
35. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Galileo Galilei
And I sayWhy not?
Will Durant
W. Somerset Maugham
36. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
You may delay -
William Blake
Thats relativity.
Plato
37. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____
John Donne
Get busy living -
Fears this is true.
Thomas Edison
38. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Thomas Paine
Robert Frost
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
39. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Knowledge speaks -
Wernher Von Braun
Charles Darwin
(I came -
40. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain
Vidi -
Augustine
Leonardo da Vinci
41. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan
John Donne
Like philosophy -
Napoleon Bonaparte
42. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Read only a page.
Theodore Roosevelt
It just gives.
Thomas Aquinas
43. 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.
Winston Churchill
Muhammad Ali
Let us - to the end -
Dwight Eisenhower
44. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Benjamin Franklin
In wonder.
I hate quotations.
Thomas Paine
45. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Hope
Chance favors
46. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Groucho Marx
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
In wonder.
47. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Thomas Paine
Thomas Aquinas
Than reason.
Victor Hugo
48. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain
Hope
Mark Twain
49. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
And a pile of junk.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
Will Rogers
50. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
John F. Kennedy
Margaret Thatcher
Dorothy Parker
Mother Teresa