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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. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
To utter
Thomas Edison
Plato
Where you are.
2. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Richard Nixon
Woody Allen
Scott Adams
Is business.
3. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
An unexamined life
Eleanor Roosevelt
Groucho Marx
George Carlin
4. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Richard Nixon
Present
5. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
James Branch Cabell
Mark Twain
George Santayana
Benjamin Franklin
6. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Let us - to the end -
Thomas Paine
Winston Churchill
7. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Well done is better
Patrick Henry
John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain
8. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Thomas Edison
Socrates
Woody Allen
In wonder.
9. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Samuel Adams
Do what you can -
Marcel Proust
What is now proved
10. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Love all -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
Albert Einstein
11. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Pablo Picasso
Rita Mae Brown
Plato
It is hard to fail -
12. You may delay - but time will not.
Epictetus
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
George Bernard Shaw
13. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
Mark Twain
Chance favors
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
14. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
Thomas Jefferson
G. K. Chesterton
Kahlil Gibran
Oscar Wilde
15. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
Thomas Edison
Leonardo da Vinci
16. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Proves nothing.
Bill Gates
Like art...
Be kind -
17. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Mahatma Gandhi
Winston Churchill
Rudyard Kipling
William Shakespeare
18. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
True friends
George Orwell
Patrick Henry
19. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.
Terry Pratchett
(I came -
Mark Twain
In an hour of play
20. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.
Yogi Berra
Alexander Pope
To err is human;
Will Rogers
21. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.
Aldous Huxley
Mark Twain
Patrick Henry
Well done is better
22. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Oscar Wilde
Proves nothing.
It is force!
Thomas Paine
23. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
George Washington
And the pessimist
This above all
George Orwell
24. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Than well said.
George Washington
Kurt Vonnegut
Theodore Roosevelt
25. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
To find yourself -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bob Dylan
26. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark Twain
27. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Than reason.
Voltaire
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
28. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Margaret Thatcher
Its kind of fun
Socrates
Women and cats
29. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
With a smile.
Plato
Than well said.
Theodore Roosevelt
30. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.
Jack Handey
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
Dave Barry
31. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Than he finds.
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
G. K. Chesterton
32. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Edith Wharton
Blaise Pascal
Mark Twain
But it does rhyme.
33. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
Abraham Lincoln
George Carlin
Can be wonderful.
W. Somerset Maugham
34. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____
Eleanor Roosevelt
It just gives.
Do wrong to none.
Oscar Wilde
35. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
It aint over
Galileo Galilei
Vince Lombardi
Voltaire
36. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Jefferson
37. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?
Victor Hugo
Who the hell wants
Leonardo da Vinci
In fact they do so.
38. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ansel Adams
John Lennon
39. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Oscar Wilde
Yogi Berra
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
40. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Trust a few -
But it does rhyme.
It was here first.
William Shakespeare
41. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Naked people have
Peter Drucker
42. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain
The first principle
Success is going
Mother Teresa
43. True friends stab you in the front.
Than well said.
Oscar Wilde
George S. Patton
Is fear itself
44. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Sam Brown
Thomas Edison
Enemy to none.
Will Durant
45. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Mark Twain
Aldous Huxley
Paul Harvey
Bertrand Russell
46. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Abraham Lincoln
Do what you can -
Socrates
Woody Allen
47. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
In its worst state -
John F. Kennedy
Mae West
Ronald Reagan
48. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
God is a comedian
Saul Bellow
And you say Why?
49. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Entire of itself;
Friedrich Nietzsche
Will Durant
Winston Churchill
50. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Familiar with few;
To err is human;
Mae West
Bertrand Russell