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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. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






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






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






4. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






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






6. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






7. 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.






8. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






9. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






10. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






11. Wit is well-bred insolence.






12. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






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






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






15. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.






16. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






17. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






18. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






19. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






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






21. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






22. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






23. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






24. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






25. 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.






26. It aint over till its over.






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






28. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






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






30. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






31. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






32. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






33. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






34. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






35. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






36. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






37. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






38. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!






39. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






40. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






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






42. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






43. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






44. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






45. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






46. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






47. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






48. Chance favors the prepared mind.






49. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






50. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.