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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. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






2. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






3. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






4. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






5. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






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






7. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






8. A witty saying proves nothing.






9. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






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






11. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____






12. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






13. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






14. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






15. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






16. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






17. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






18. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






19. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






20. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






21. 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.






22. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






23. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






24. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






26. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






27. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






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






29. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






30. 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.






31. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






32. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






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






34. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






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






36. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






37. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






38. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






39. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






40. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






41. 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.






42. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






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






44. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






45. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






46. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?






47. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






48. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






49. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






50. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____