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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. Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Mark Twain
And men and dogs
Entire of itself;
2. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
Louis Pasteur
Alexander Pope
Albert Einstein
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
Winston Churchill
Enemy to none.
Dave Barry
Is to be one.
4. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Winston Churchill
Jack Handey
Benjamin Franklin
Yogi Berra
5. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Mark Twain
Than reason.
Albert Einstein
Pablo Picasso
6. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Muhammad Ali
Winston Churchill
Except temptation.
Entire of itself;
7. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Samuel Adams
8. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
It aint over
After silence -
I have not failed.
Dwight Eisenhower
9. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Its kind of fun
Robert Oppenheimer
Oscar Levant
Calvin Coolidge
10. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Joseph Stalin
Ah! the farce.
Stephen King
You see things;
11. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Benjamin Franklin
Will Rogers
Galileo Galilei
Robert Frost
12. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Well done is better
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Einstein
John Lennon
13. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Who the hell wants
John Wooden
Victor Hugo
Leonardo da Vinci
14. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
Get busy living -
Aldous Huxley
Theodore Roosevelt
George Carlin
15. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Peter Drucker
Socrates
Mother Teresa
W. Somerset Maugham
16. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.
Present
To err is human;
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
17. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
John F. Kennedy
Bertrand Russell
George S. Patton
True friends
18. Do - or do not. There is no try.
Mark Twain
John Dalberg-Acton
Samuel Johnson
Yoda
19. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
As they are seized.
George Carlin
Oscar Wilde
Bertrand Russell
20. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Epictetus
In an hour of play
Mario Andretti
Mark Twain
21. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
The chief business
It goes on.
Peace begins
22. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Blaise Pascal
It goes on.
23. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Oscar Wilde
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
24. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Oscar Wilde
Douglas Adams
Albert Einstein
Talent will not;
25. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
I conquered.)
I have not failed.
Take it.
26. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
With a smile.
Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
George Orwell
27. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Simplicity
It is hard to fail -
Mother Teresa
Oscar Wilde
28. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk
Till its over.
Women and cats
Adam Smith
George Bernard Shaw
29. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Julius Caesar
Mark Twain
Voltaire
Charles Darwin
30. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
An eye for an eye
Henry David Thoreau
Socrates
Friend to one;
31. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
You see things;
Blaise Pascal
Mark Twain
Like fire -
32. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Steven Wright
Dave Barry
Mark Twain
Isaac Asimov
33. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Peace at any price -
Niels Bohr
George Washington
Victor Hugo
34. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
All great truths
Mark Twain
Aristotle
35. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Napoleon Bonaparte
With what you have -
Yoda
Theodore Roosevelt
36. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Is a waking dream.
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
Plato
37. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____
Woody Allen
Oscar Wilde
Thats relativity.
Mark Twain
38. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
Francis Bacon
Winston Churchill
Muhammad Ali
Mother Teresa
39. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
George Carlin
And a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
Yogi Berra
40. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
Familiar with few;
Chance favors
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leonardo da Vinci
41. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine
Oscar Wilde
Fears this is true.
Maybe this world
42. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
Woody Allen
Voltaire
Thomas Jefferson
43. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
True friends
This above all
W. Somerset Maugham
Albert Einstein
44. 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.
Talent will not;
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
45. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Mahatma Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Pablo Picasso
46. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
And I sayWhy not?
Stephen Hawking
Isaac Asimov
Leonardo da Vinci
47. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
To utter
G. K. Chesterton
Laozi
Mark Twain
48. You may delay - but time will not.
Thomas Edison
William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo
Benjamin Franklin
49. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.
Samuel Adams
Be more concerned
Till its over.
Mother Teresa
50. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
C. S. Lewis
After silence -
Winston Churchill