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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. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






2. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






3. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






4. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






6. 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.






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






8. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






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






10. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






11. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






12. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






13. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






14. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






15. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






16. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






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






18. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






19. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






20. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






21. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






22. 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.






23. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






24. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






25. 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






26. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






30. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






31. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






32. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






33. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






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






35. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






36. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






37. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






38. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






39. There are no facts - only interpretations.






40. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






41. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






42. If music be the food of love - play on.






43. Without music - life would be a mistake.






44. 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.






45. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






47. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






48. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






49. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






50. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.