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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. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






2. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






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






4. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






5. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






6. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






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






8. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






9. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






10. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






11. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






12. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






13. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






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






15. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






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






17. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






18. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






19. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






20. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






21. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






22. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






23. 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.






24. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






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






26. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






27. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






28. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






29. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






30. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






31. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






32. If you are going through hell - keep going.






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






34. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






35. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






36. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






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






38. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






39. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






40. To find yourself - think for yourself.






41. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






42. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






43. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






44. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






45. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






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






47. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






48. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






49. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






50. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.