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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. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Jimi Hendrix
Mother Teresa
Yogi Berra
2. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Isaac Asimov
Yogi Berra
Kurt Vonnegut
But time will not.
3. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
Fears this is true.
Robert Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
4. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Patrick Henry
Stephen King
Socrates
Mark Twain
5. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Winston Churchill
A single soul
To utter
6. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.
T. S. Eliot
An eye for an eye
Carl Sagan
C. S. Lewis
7. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Is busy dying.
William Shakespeare
Vince Lombardi
John Milton
8. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Daniel Webster
Mel Brooks
And I sayWhy not?
9. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.
William Shakespeare
I think;
John F. Kennedy
Oscar Wilde
10. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Oscar Wilde
But it does rhyme.
Plato
Talent will not;
11. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Margaret Thatcher
William Shakespeare
To be the candle
Theodore Roosevelt
12. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
John F. Kennedy
Margaret Mead
Leonardo da Vinci
Winning is a habit.
13. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Socrates
Familiar with few;
Niels Bohr
Ronald Reagan
14. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____
Read only a page.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
I conquered.)
15. You may delay - but time will not.
George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
And the pessimist
16. 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.
Is a waking dream.
Is never accurate
Except temptation.
Chance favors
17. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.
Till its over.
Carl Sagan
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
18. 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.
Stephen King
Muhammad Ali
Margaret Mead
Is not Eureka!
19. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
He is richest
Trust a few -
Henry David Thoreau
When people laugh.
20. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Socrates
Carl Sagan
George Bernard Shaw
Jesse Jackson
21. 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.
Groucho Marx
Like philosophy -
Muhammad Ali
I hate quotations.
22. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
An unexamined life
Without music -
Bill Gates
Richard P. Feynman
23. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
All great truths
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
24. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
Thomas Jefferson
There is no art.
With the very best.
Every rocket fired -
25. 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.
George Orwell
Alexander Pope
Thomas Jefferson
Socrates
26. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Wilde
Rene Descartes
John Donne
27. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
Winston Churchill
Rich Cook
C.A.R. Hoare
Therefore I am.
28. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____
Aristotle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
All over again.
29. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Adams
George Bernard Shaw
30. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
William James
Jimi Hendrix
Jonathan Swift
Friend to one;
31. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
There is no art.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Wilde
32. 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.
Albert Einstein
George Santayana
There are no facts -
Read only a page.
33. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Like art...
Augustine
Yoda
Thomas Edison
34. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Except temptation.
Yogi Berra
Albert Einstein
Adam Smith
35. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.
Julius Caesar
Sun Tzu
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
36. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Sting like a bee.
Adam Smith
Meet any hardship -
Do what you can -
37. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
George Bernard Shaw
Bertrand Russell
Scott Adams
Mark Twain
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.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Margaret Mead
Peace at any price -
39. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Carl Sagan
Is another matter.
Ronald Reagan
C. S. Lewis
40. The chief business of the American people is business.
Thomas Edison
Calvin Coolidge
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sam Brown
41. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____
It was here first.
Yogi Berra
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chance favors
42. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is richest
John Milton
Dave Barry
43. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
William Shakespeare
Do - or do not.
There are painters
G. K. Chesterton
44. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
C. S. Lewis
The first principle
Victor Hugo
45. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Eleanor Roosevelt
Than well said.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
46. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Abraham Lincoln
H. M. Warner
47. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
Ronald Reagan
George S. Patton
Theodore Roosevelt
Steve Wozniak
48. I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Bob Dylan
Henry David Thoreau
George S. Patton
49. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Rita Mae Brown
I conquered.)
Winston Churchill
Its inherent virtue
50. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Stephen King
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin