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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. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






2. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






3. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






4. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






5. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






6. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






7. 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.






8. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






9. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






10. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






11. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






12. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






13. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






14. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






15. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






16. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






17. 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.






18. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






19. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






20. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






21. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






22. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






23. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






24. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






25. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






26. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






27. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






28. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






29. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






30. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






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






32. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






33. Peace begins with a smile.






34. Wisdom begins in wonder.






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






36. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






37. 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.






38. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






39. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






40. 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.






41. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






42. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






43. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






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






45. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






46. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






47. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






48. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






49. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






50. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.