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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. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
John Milton
Present
Calvin Coolidge
Always do right--
2. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Douglas Adams
Galileo Galilei
3. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Love all -
Vince Lombardi
Muhammad Ali
4. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Socrates
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pablo Picasso
Plato
5. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.
Victor Hugo
W. Somerset Maugham
As they are seized.
Silence is golden
6. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.
Blaise Pascal
William Shakespeare
The chief business
Leonardo da Vinci
7. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Dave Barry
William Blake
I saw -
8. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Its inherent virtue
Mark Twain
Peace at any price -
Oscar Wilde
9. 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
Mark Twain
You may delay -
Its too crowded.
10. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____
I - at any rate -
Isaac Newton
Like fire -
It swears.
11. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Be kind -
Socrates
Theodore Roosevelt
12. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
Winston Churchill
And the pessimist
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
13. 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.
And you say Why?
Dave Barry
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
14. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.
H. G. Wells
Mark Twain
George Carlin
Thomas Edison
15. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.
Ronald Reagan
It goes on.
Leonardo da Vinci
Benjamin Franklin
16. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Lewis Carroll
Rene Descartes
Life is pleasant.
Winston Churchill
17. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Fools rush in
Sam Brown
Leonardo da Vinci
Robert Heinlein
18. 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.
Socrates
After silence -
Bob Dylan
Rich Cook
19. 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.
Abraham Lincoln
Eleanor Roosevelt
Is to invent it.
Ansel Adams
20. Do - or do not. There is no try.
John F. Kennedy
Yoda
Douglas Adams
Behind the lines -
21. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Makes more converts
Douglas Adams
Mark Twain
C.A.R. Hoare
22. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.
C. S. Lewis
Victor Hugo
C. S. Lewis
Alexander Pope
23. 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.
Socrates
Muhammad Ali
Oscar Levant
Sun Tzu
24. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
William Shakespeare
Bob Dylan
Do what you can -
Paul Harvey
25. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
C.A.R. Hoare
Mark Twain
Mother Teresa
John Wooden
26. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
To find yourself -
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau
Samuel Adams
27. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Winston Churchill
Talent will not;
Tis dearness only
Than reason.
28. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
Rudyard Kipling
Blaise Pascal
Oscar Wilde
And the pessimist
29. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.
Stephen Hawking
An intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
30. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.
Plato
George Carlin
And men and dogs
Carl Sagan
31. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
A single soul
Present
Mark Twain
And a pile of junk.
32. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
You may delay -
To invent -
Thomas Edison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Thomas Edison
Is business.
Victor Hugo
Always do right--
34. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.
Thomas Watson
And you say Why?
Rita Mae Brown
Thomas Watson
35. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
G. K. Chesterton
Oscar Wilde
Plato
Phyllis Diller
36. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Richard P. Feynman
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Socrates
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!
Mark Twain
Socrates
Dave Barry
I think;
38. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
Silence is golden
Stephen Hawking
Saint Augustine
William Shakespeare
39. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Familiar with few;
What is now proved
Mahatma Gandhi
Oscar Wilde
40. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Without music -
George Bernard Shaw
Woody Allen
41. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Ernest Hemingway
Socrates
Oscar Wilde
Patrick Henry
42. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
Richard P. Feynman
Mark Twain
And a pile of junk.
43. He is richest who is content with the least.
Play on.
Socrates
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
44. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Marcel Proust
Yogi Berra
Without music -
Thomas Paine
45. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Theodore Roosevelt
Muhammad Ali
Chance favors
Thomas Jefferson
46. It aint over till its over.
Yogi Berra
Samuel Adams
Benjamin Franklin
George Orwell
47. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Lewis Carroll
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
48. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Mae West
W. Somerset Maugham
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
49. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan
Dwight Eisenhower
50. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Thats relativity.
Mark Twain
William Blake
Napoleon Bonaparte