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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. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






2. I think; therefore I am.






3. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






4. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






5. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






6. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






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






8. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






9. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






10. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






11. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






12. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






13. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






14. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






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






16. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






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






18. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






19. An unexamined life is not worth living.






20. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






21. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






22. 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.






23. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






24. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






25. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






26. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






27. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






28. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






29. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






30. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






31. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






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






33. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






34. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






35. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






36. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






37. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






38. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






39. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






40. Peace begins with a smile.






41. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






42. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






43. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






44. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






45. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






46. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






47. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






48. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






49. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






50. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.