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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.
Fools rush in
H. G. Wells
Theodore Roosevelt
Margaret Thatcher
2. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Robert Frost
A witty saying
William Shakespeare
Carl Sagan
3. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.
Is not Eureka!
John Dalberg-Acton
Christopher Morley
Vince Lombardi
4. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Is to invent it.
Is never accurate
5. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
Tis dearness only
Yogi Berra
An unexamined life
Women and cats
6. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
To be the candle
Aldous Huxley
Like fire -
Isaac Asimov
7. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.
Thomas Edison
George Carlin
Edith Wharton
Jonathan Swift
8. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Fools rush in
Thomas Jefferson
Terry Pratchett
Samuel Johnson
9. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher Von Braun
Its too crowded.
Rich Cook
Yogi Berra
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
So - first of all -
Daniel Webster
11. Well done is better than well said.
Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
12. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker
Mark Twain
Aristotle
Benjamin Franklin
13. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Vince Lombardi
G. K. Chesterton
Paul Harvey
Alan Kay
14. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe
Isaac Asimov
Calvin Coolidge
Leonardo da Vinci
The prepared mind.
15. Well done is better than well said.
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
Aristotle
Benjamin Franklin
16. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
As they are seized.
James Branch Cabell
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
17. 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.
Alexander Pope
Thomas Edison
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
18. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
Benjamin Franklin
Is busy dying.
Is to be one.
Aldous Huxley
19. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Wernher Von Braun
W. Somerset Maugham
Jonathan Swift
Thomas Jefferson
20. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
Mark Twain
George Carlin
Benjamin Franklin
Ronald Reagan
21. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Like philosophy -
Thomas Edison
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
22. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
Woody Allen
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
So - first of all -
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Laozi
24. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
There is no art.
Voltaire
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
25. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Proves nothing.
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
William Shakespeare
26. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
Mark Twain
Wit
Charles Darwin
Theodore Roosevelt
27. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Benjamin Franklin
Mother Teresa
Bertrand Russell
Scott Adams
28. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Winston Churchill
When people laugh.
C. S. Lewis
Theodore Roosevelt
29. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Winston Churchill
Its kind of fun
Napoleon Bonaparte
I - at any rate -
30. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
I saw -
Tom Clancy
Read only a page.
G. K. Chesterton
31. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
Wernher Von Braun
Oscar Wilde
W. Somerset Maugham
32. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Where the spirit
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
33. 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.
George Carlin
Dwight Eisenhower
And men and dogs
Ronald Reagan
34. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Thomas Edison
Stephen King
I have not failed.
Winston Churchill
35. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
William Shakespeare
W. Somerset Maugham
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
36. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Thomas Paine
Plato
Theodore Roosevelt
Its inherent virtue
37. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
George Carlin
John Wooden
Robert Oppenheimer
Charles Darwin
38. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
John Donne
Can be wonderful.
Like philosophy -
Its kind of fun
39. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
Daniel Webster
I hate quotations.
Mark Twain
40. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
It aint over
And the pessimist
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
41. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
Carl Sagan
Richard P. Feynman
Albert Einstein
Henry David Thoreau
42. What is now proved was once only imagined.
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
William Blake
Woody Allen
43. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.
Do wrong to none.
Every rocket fired -
Mark Twain
W. Somerset Maugham
44. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Bertrand Russell
Margaret Thatcher
Yogi Berra
45. He is richest who is content with the least.
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
Socrates
46. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It swears.
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
G. K. Chesterton
47. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Albert Einstein
I have not failed.
Thomas Edison
Richard P. Feynman
48. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Meet any hardship -
Love all -
Mark Twain
49. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Theodore Roosevelt
Like philosophy -
Mother Teresa
Henry David Thoreau
50. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Lewis Carroll
Friend to one;
It is hard to fail -
Plato