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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. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






2. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






3. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






4. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






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






6. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






7. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






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






9. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






10. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






11. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






12. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






13. A witty saying proves nothing.






14. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






15. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






17. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






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






19. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






20. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.






21. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






22. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






23. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






24. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






25. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.






26. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






27. Do - or do not. There is no try.






28. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






29. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






30. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






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






32. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






33. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






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






35. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






36. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






37. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






38. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






39. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






40. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






41. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






42. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






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






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






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






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






47. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






48. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






49. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






50. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.