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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. There are no facts - only interpretations.






2. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






3. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






4. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






5. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






6. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






7. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






8. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






9. He not busy being born is busy dying.






10. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






11. It aint over till its over.






12. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






13. An unexamined life is not worth living.






14. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






15. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






16. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






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






18. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






19. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






20. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






21. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






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






23. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






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






25. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






26. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






27. 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.






28. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






29. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






30. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






31. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






32. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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.






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






34. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






35. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






36. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






37. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






38. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






39. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






40. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






41. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






42. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






44. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






45. You may delay - but time will not.






46. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






47. I can resist everything except temptation.






48. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






49. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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