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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. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






2. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






3. 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.






4. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






5. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






6. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






7. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






8. Without music - life would be a mistake.






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






10. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






11. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






12. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






13. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






14. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






15. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






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






17. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






18. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






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






20. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






21. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






22. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






23. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






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






25. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






26. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






27. Well done is better than well said.






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






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






30. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






31. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






32. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






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






34. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






35. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






36. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






37. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






38. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






39. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






40. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






41. 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.






42. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






43. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






44. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






45. 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.






46. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






48. However beautiful the strategy - you should occasionally look at the results.






49. 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.






50. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.