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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. You may delay - but time will not.
To find yourself -
Benjamin Franklin
George Bernard Shaw
Henry David Thoreau
2. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Samuel Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
3. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown
Theodore Roosevelt
You may delay -
Thomas Edison
4. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Mark Twain
Jonathan Swift
Oscar Wilde
With what you have -
5. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Is another matter.
Will Rogers
Christopher Morley
Galileo Galilei
6. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____
As they are seized.
Talent will not;
Carl Sagan
Benjamin Franklin
7. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Ronald Reagan
Plato
Wilson Mizner
Bill Gates
8. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Julius Caesar
Walt Disney
W. Somerset Maugham
Samuel Johnson
9. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Emily Dickinson
Winston Churchill
And a pile of junk.
Mel Brooks
10. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Mother Teresa
Than well said.
Aristotle
Mark Twain
11. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.
In its worst state -
Vince Lombardi
Oscar Wilde
I - at any rate -
12. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Tears and sweat.
You may delay -
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
13. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
God is a comedian
Meet any hardship -
Glory is fleeting -
Theodore Roosevelt
14. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.
Silence is golden
There is no art.
William Shakespeare
Theodore Roosevelt
15. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Wilson Mizner
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Edison
Jimi Hendrix
16. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Groucho Marx
Pablo Picasso
John F. Kennedy
Voltaire
17. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Thomas Edison
Tis dearness only
Bob Dylan
To find yourself -
18. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Oscar Wilde
Richard P. Feynman
Be kind -
But it does rhyme.
19. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Oscar Wilde
Isaac Newton
Bertrand Russell
Life is pleasant.
20. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Laozi
Aldous Huxley
G. K. Chesterton
Rene Descartes
21. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Vince Lombardi
Edith Wharton
Thomas Edison
I hate quotations.
22. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Plato
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Peace at any price -
23. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
William Shakespeare
And in that faith -
Thomas Paine
Albert Einstein
24. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
Steven Wright
Thomas Edison
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no art.
25. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.
Aristotle
True friends
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
26. True friends stab you in the front.
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
George Carlin
Thomas Paine
27. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
What! You too?
Speak softly
Vince Lombardi
Mark Twain
28. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
To be the candle
After silence -
Is business.
Rich Cook
29. 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.
Jesse Jackson
And men and dogs
George Carlin
Ronald Reagan
30. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Pablo Picasso
Do - or do not.
Muhammad Ali
31. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.
Abraham Lincoln
Well done is better
Jack Handey
John Lennon
32. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
Mother Teresa
Groucho Marx
Vince Lombardi
Theodore Roosevelt
33. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____
All over again.
Ansel Adams
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
34. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Dwight Eisenhower
Therefore I am.
35. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Theodore Roosevelt
John Wooden
Margaret Thatcher
Where the spirit
36. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Bertrand Russell
Its too crowded.
Mark Twain
Patrick Henry
37. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
To err is human;
T. S. Eliot
Women and cats
Niels Bohr
38. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Aristotle
Except temptation.
To utter
Death is peaceful.
39. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?
Mark Twain
G. K. Chesterton
Marcel Proust
William Shakespeare
40. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____
Will Rogers
Oscar Wilde
The prepared mind.
Theodore Roosevelt
41. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Death is peaceful.
Isaac Asimov
Victor Hugo
42. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Mario Andretti
Winston Churchill
Is Music
Aldous Huxley
43. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
I saw -
Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Proves nothing.
44. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.
Thats relativity.
Ah! the farce.
There are painters
Walt Disney
45. He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates
But blood - toil -
Victor Hugo
Adam Smith
46. 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!
Robert Frost
Dave Barry
Socrates
Aristotle
47. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Oscar Wilde
To err is human;
Louis Pasteur
Simplicity
48. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Socrates
It was here first.
Present
Thomas Paine
49. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.
Winston Churchill
Will Rogers
Decca Recording Co.
Vici
50. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____
Do wrong to none.
Yogi Berra
To know everything.
Paul Harvey