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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. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






2. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






3. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






4. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






5. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






6. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






7. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






8. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






9. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






10. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____






11. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






12. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






13. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






14. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






15. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






16. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






17. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






18. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






19. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






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






21. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






22. 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.






23. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






24. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






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






26. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






27. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






28. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






29. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






31. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






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






33. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






34. I can resist everything except temptation.






35. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






36. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






37. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






38. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






39. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






40. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






41. 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.






42. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






43. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






44. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






45. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






46. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






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






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






49. 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!






50. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.