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






2. 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.






3. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






4. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






5. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






6. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






7. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






8. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






9. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






10. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






11. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






12. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






13. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






14. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






15. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






16. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.






17. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






18. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






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






20. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






21. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






22. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






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






24. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






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






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






27. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






28. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






29. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






30. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






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






32. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






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






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






35. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






36. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






37. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






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






39. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






40. It aint over till its over.






41. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






42. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






43. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






44. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






45. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.






46. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






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






48. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






49. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






50. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____