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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. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Pablo Picasso
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert Frost
Thomas Jefferson
2. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
Patrick Henry
(I came -
Get busy living -
But it does rhyme.
3. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Patrick Henry
Death is peaceful.
William James
Oscar Wilde
4. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Mark Twain
In an hour of play
George Bernard Shaw
Bob Dylan
5. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Be kind -
Robert Frost
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Levant
6. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Thomas Edison
Lewis Carroll
Plato
Mae West
7. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
And a pile of junk.
Stephen King
Like art...
Is Music
8. 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.
Woody Allen
Adam Smith
T. S. Eliot
Or get busy dying.
9. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Get busy living -
Socrates
Abraham Lincoln
Woody Allen
10. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.
Winning is a habit.
Like fire -
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Frost
11. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
C. S. Lewis
Therefore I am.
Thomas Paine
Scott Adams
12. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Paul Harvey
Than well said.
Dorothy Parker
This above all
13. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
Oscar Wilde
Margaret Thatcher
Benjamin Franklin
14. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Thomas Jefferson
Will Rogers
Than well said.
Plato
15. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
George Orwell
William Blake
Niels Bohr
And in that faith -
16. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Aristotle
Niels Bohr
George Eliot
Oscar Wilde
17. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Talent will not;
It is force!
A single soul
18. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
But it does rhyme.
Trust a few -
19. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
George Orwell
John Wayne
Mark Twain
Linus Torvalds
20. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Muhammad Ali
C. S. Lewis
Sting like a bee.
Samuel Adams
21. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Stephen Hawking
Winston Churchill
I conquered.)
Behind the lines -
22. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Sting like a bee.
Samuel Adams
Thomas Edison
Ronald Reagan
23. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
Yogi Berra
Carl Sagan
24. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Well done is better
And the Macintosh -
Tom Clancy
Friend to one;
25. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
George Washington
But wisdom listens.
Henry David Thoreau
26. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Pablo Picasso
George S. Patton
And in that faith -
Who the hell wants
27. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Women and cats
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Franklin
C.A.R. Hoare
28. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Paul Harvey
Eleanor Roosevelt
But wisdom listens.
29. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Paul Harvey
A new nation -
Jonathan Swift
Cleaning your house
30. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Epictetus
Patrick Henry
Mahatma Gandhi
Let us - to the end -
31. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____
Scott Adams
Time
To know everything.
Oscar Wilde
32. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
Is to be one.
Mark Twain
33. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
A witty saying
C. S. Lewis
34. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
And in that faith -
Woody Allen
Pablo Picasso
35. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Its kind of fun
Than reason.
Vince Lombardi
Dave Barry
36. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Dave Barry
Oscar Levant
Tom Clancy
Socrates
37. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Be more concerned
Woody Allen
John Wooden
Mark Twain
38. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
John Donne
Stephen King
Religion
Is showing up.
39. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
John Lennon
40. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____
Is showing up.
All over again.
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Paine
41. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
William Shakespeare
Oscar Levant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gobble their food -
42. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
In fact they do so.
Love all -
Yogi Berra
Peace at any price -
43. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Chance favors
Albert Einstein
It was here first.
44. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
Is busy dying.
C. S. Lewis
Mother Teresa
Religion
45. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It is force!
Epictetus
Albert Einstein
Andy Warhol
46. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Rightly considered.
Eleanor Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
47. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi
48. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ronald Reagan
To find yourself -
49. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Chance favors
And in that faith -
Sam Brown
50. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
God is a comedian
Winning is a habit.
It aint over
Daniel Webster