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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. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Carl Sagan
George Washington
Rene Descartes
2. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Peace begins
Niels Bohr
Woody Allen
Robert Frost
3. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Emily Dickinson
Vince Lombardi
Scott Adams
Bob Dylan
4. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Samuel Johnson
Linus Torvalds
Peter Drucker
Robert Frost
5. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ 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 de
Plato
Rich Cook
Talent will not;
Albert Einstein
6. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
Oscar Wilde
Patrick Henry
John F. Kennedy
Bertrand Russell
7. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Is a waking dream.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Therefore I am.
8. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.
Fears this is true.
Is business.
Thomas Edison
H. G. Wells
9. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that
Linus Torvalds
And the Macintosh -
Bertrand Russell
Thomas Edison
10. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.
There are no facts -
Thomas Jefferson
It tolls for thee.
Margaret Thatcher
11. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
Charles Darwin
Francis Bacon
Oscar Wilde
Do - or do not.
12. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
To be the candle
Robert Oppenheimer
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who the hell wants
13. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mother Teresa
Thomas Edison
14. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
William Shakespeare
Thomas Paine
Henry David Thoreau
Get busy living -
15. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
I think;
Robert Frost
John Wooden
George Bernard Shaw
16. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Where you are.
It swears.
Carl Sagan
Walt Disney
17. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Is another matter.
Kahlil Gibran
Mark Twain
George Carlin
18. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Oscar Wilde
Ernest Hemingway
Richard P. Feynman
Samuel Johnson
19. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
When people die
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
An intolerable one.
20. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
True friends
Thomas Paine
Saul Bellow
William Shakespeare
21. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
Thomas Edison
Behind the lines -
Leonardo da Vinci
I conquered.)
22. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Alexander Pope
Rightly considered.
Like fire -
George Santayana
23. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Muhammad Ali
Bertrand Russell
24. He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates
And men and dogs
George Carlin
Isaac Asimov
25. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
Yogi Berra
Will Rogers
I'm a Democrat!
George Washington
26. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Bertrand Russell
A new nation -
Entire of itself;
Theodore Roosevelt
27. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.
Mother Teresa
But wisdom listens.
Veni -
Thomas Jefferson
28. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____
Socrates
It swears.
Douglas Adams
Let us - to the end -
29. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Is to be one.
Can be wonderful.
Behind the lines -
Mother Teresa
30. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.
Albert Einstein
Meet any hardship -
Michael Jordan
C. S. Lewis
31. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
Margaret Thatcher
Yogi Berra
To be the candle
When people laugh.
32. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Victor Hugo
George Santayana
Will Rogers
33. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
George Carlin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Saint Augustine
Be kind -
34. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
Robert Frost
Pablo Picasso
Woody Allen
35. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
C. S. Lewis
Thomas Edison
36. 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.
Dwight Eisenhower
It is hard to fail -
What is now proved
Mother Teresa
37. 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!
George Washington
Aristotle
Mark Twain
Dave Barry
38. ____ 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
Yoda
The prepared mind.
Isaac Newton
Samuel Adams
39. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison
In an hour of play
Ansel Adams
Take it.
40. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
And you say Why?
It is force!
41. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.
Except temptation.
Where you are.
Mark Twain
Laozi
42. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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43. Do - or do not. There is no try.
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Yoda
Ernest Hemingway
44. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
George Orwell
Success is going
To err is human;
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
But blood - toil -
But it does rhyme.
I saw -
46. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
There are painters
Socrates
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
47. 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.
Thomas Edison
And in that faith -
Emily Dickinson
Dave Barry
48. 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.
Mark Twain
But blood - toil -
And the Macintosh -
So - first of all -
49. You may delay - but time will not.
Who the hell wants
Thomas Watson
Benjamin Franklin
Peace begins
50. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Fools rush in
H. G. Wells
When people die
Rene Descartes