Famous Quotes Trivia

1. Which American author wrote that "one cat just leads to another" in a letter to his first wife?

From Quiz Kitty Cat Quotes

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American writer who wrote many well known novels including 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and 'The Old Man and the Sea'. The quote used in this question, "one cat just leads to another", is from a letter to his first wife, Hadley Richardson, who Hemingway married in 1921 and divorced in 1927. Hemingway wrote the quote in the question before listing and describing his many cats.

From Quiz Simon Says (Part 5)

Answer: 10,000

He went on to say: "Only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them." In addition to sports, the British journalist wrote a wildlife opinion column. The book, "How To Be Wild" is a year long encounter Mr. Barnes spends with various wildlife including elephants, mosquitoes, dolphins, flying squirrels, giraffes, butterflies and other creatures. Historians have long echoed Mr. Barnes assertion, tht farming was "invented" some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Cradle of Civilization, that is, the region around Iraq, Turkey and Iran. A international collaboration of researchers however now offers evidence that plant cultivation began more like 23,000 years ago.

From Quiz It Comes To Us All

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon seized power in 1799 and crowned himself emperor of France in 1804. He was a great military strategist and invaded many European nations, but after failing in his invasion of Russia in 1812, he was exiled to Elba. He briefly returned to France after escaping from Elba in 1815, but following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, he was exiled to Saint Helena where he wrote his book. He died on Saint Helena in 1821.

From Quiz So That's How You Write!

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

The Ernest Hemingway quote comes from a passage in his memoir "A Moveable Feast" published in 1964. Hemingway's success started in the 1920s with "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" and in 1940 with "For Whom The Bell Tolls". It continued into the 1950s with "The Old Man and The Sea". All of these novels made him a major influence on 20th-century fiction.

From Quiz Who Said That?

Answer: Adolf Hitler

This notorious dictator hardly needs a note. He is chiefly remembered for plunging Europe and the world into a highly destructive war a mere two decades after the end of World War One, for his boundless ambition pursued with total ruthlessness and complete disregard for human life, and also for the Holocaust.

From Quiz Taking Charge of Your Life

Answer: Jenny Craig

It might seem odd to include a weight loss consultant and frozen meals manufacturer in a celebrity quiz, but Jenny Craig is an extremely successful business entrepreneur who built up a multi-million dollar concern from just a simple idea. Born in Louisiana in 1932, Jenny and her husband started Jenny Craig Incorporated in Australia in 1983. By 1985 branches were operating in the United States as well, and then Canada, France, the UK and Puerto Rico. By the turn of the 21st century, there were more than 700 of her weight loss centres around the world, employing some 3,000 people. Now owned by Nestle Nutrition, Jenny's business and personal belief system was definitely about taking charge of life on a day to day basis. Jenny also supports a wide range of philanthropic causes as well. These include hospitals, centres for the terminally ill, centres for people battling breast cancer, centres for victims of domestic violence and two universities. She's a champion loser.

From Quiz Eighty Percent of Success is Showing Up

Answer: Abe Lincoln

Other wise men have addressed the perils of power similarly. Lord Acton (1778-1834) famously said, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." William Pitt (1708-1778), the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, opined "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the mind of those who possess it." The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1782-1822) addressed the dangers of power in 1813, writing, "Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate'er it touches.

From Quiz Revenge

Answer: Unknown--traditional

It is believed to have been a old Sicilian proverb with a relationship to Mafia ethics. Where the phrase has been found in literature it is often in quotation marks that give credence to it being a traditional proverb. You will find it in a number of films. It was probably first used in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), then "Death Rides a Horse" (1967), and "Kill Bill" (2003). In 1982's "Wrath of Khan" it is presented as a old Klingon proverb. Essentially, it means that revenge should be taken in a planned, dispassionate, cold-blooded way.

From Quiz Forgiveness

Answer: Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was a waspy man who frequently lashed out at others, particularly other writers, on their merits or lack of them. Pope was the master of the heroic couplet and the quatrain. Pope wrote in "An Essay on Criticism" (1711): "Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast, Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost! Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join; To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine." The word 'humane' is the spelling of that time for 'human'. Pope is saying that critics forget that a writer is human and is therefore prone to error. A measure of forgiveness should be practiced by the critic for minor mistakes. Pope took "to err is human" from the ancient Latin phrase "Errare humanum est."

From Quiz Zeroing in on the Truth

Answer: Jesus Christ

The quote "I am the way, the truth, and the life." is from John 14:6 of the King James Bible. Jesus Christ followed that by saying, "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

From Quiz Just coffee. Black - like my soul

Answer: Bob Dylan

"One more cup of coffee" is from the album "Desire", released in 1976. "Mozambique" and "Hurricane" are on the same album. The song talks about a gypsy girl and the man who loves her but has to leave her. Allegedly, Bob Dylan was inspired for this song one summer in Provence, France when he witnessed the annual gathering of Romani people celebrating their patron saint, Saint Sarah the Egyptian.

From Quiz Quotes About History

Answer: Edward Gibbon

The words come in the third chapter of his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". According to Gibbon, the reigns of the Roman emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius were "possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government." Voltaire, in his philosophical novel "L'Ingénu" had already said much the same thing: "En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs".

From Quiz Words from the Gravestone

Answer: Bette Davis

Bette Davis was not stunningly beautiful in the conventional way of film stars and she had to fight to get her contract and the roles she craved. When she did, her acting took her to the heights. She won two Oscars and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. The inscription on her gravestone in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills was suggested by Joe Mankiewicz, who wrote and directed her great film "All About Eve".

From Quiz Sands and Sands Ability

Answer: The Bard of the Yukon

Robert W. Service was a poet born in Lancashire, though known as the Bard of the Yukon. He wrote several famous poems, including "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew". Both these poems were from his 1907 book "Songs of a Sourdough" (also called "The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses").

From Quiz Having the Last Word

Answer: Mary Surratt

Mary Surratt was the first woman to be executed by a military tribunal in the U.S. She was found guilty of treason in the conspiracy to kidnap or assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and other high-ranking government officials. She was publicly hanged on July 7, 1865.

From Quiz Getting To Know You

Answer: Groucho Marx

Good old Groucho! Every so often he said something profound, rather than, "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." or, "Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does ..." Groucho Marx was known for his quick wit, and as the leader of the Marx Brothers stage routines and films. He did most of the organizing, and was the one most interested in entertainment.

From Quiz Misery and Misfortune

Answer: Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, often referred to by the mononym 'Dante', was a celebrated Italian poet and statesman who lived in the 13th and 14th centuries. One of his best-known works was the "Divine Comedy", which is considered a masterpiece of epic poetry. Carlos Barbarito is a modern day Argentine poet. Giacomo Leopardi was a 19th century Italian poet and philosopher. Salvatore Quasimodo was a 20th century Italian poet, author, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.

From Quiz A Kiss is Just a Kiss

Answer: You drink and your thirst increases

Wise words from the Chinese. So very true that, once you have had one kiss, you want another ... and another. You could probably draw various other parallels, like the fact that too much of either would probably drive you mad, and may eventually kill you.

From Quiz Famous Quotations: Royalty Edition

Answer: Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I wrote the above when she was under house arrest at the royal palace at Woodstock. She was held in the Tower of London on the orders of her Catholic sister Mary I ("Bloody Mary"), who feared Elizabeth would serve as a rallying point for people insisting on a Protestant monarch. Elizabeth was sent from the Tower to house arrest at Woodstock and eventually freed in 1555, one year later. She became queen upon Mary's death in 1558.

From Quiz Dark Thoughts of Madness

Answer: Aristotle

Aristotle is often considered to be one of the greatest minds in history. He studied and wrote about philosophy, rhetoric, botany, zoology, and history, and influenced philosophy until the Renaissance and even beyond. He is also responsible for the following quote, "There is no great genius without a mixture of madness". These quotes may reflect moments of self-introspection.

From Quiz Fatalism

Answer: Carl Jung

Alfred Adler expressed a similar view when he said: "Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."

From Quiz Homicide - Quotes

Answer: praiseworthy

The quote continues, ' ... but of course it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers". - Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary. This is one of my most favorite quotations - cynical, but very realistic!

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Famous Quotes, Part 1

Answer: George Raft

Raft came to Hollywood as a dancer but his persona led him to become the epitome of the stereotype cool gangster in the 1930s. He began to turn down roles such as "Casablanca" and "High Sierra" that catapulted Bogart into a superstar. His roles declined and later he accepted employment as a greeter in a casino in Havana where he had a part interest. He essentially died broke. He never learned to read or write.

From Quiz Famous Quotes About War

Answer: left

As a pacifist, Bertrand Russell, was very involved in anti-war activities, which landed him in jail during World War I. He spoke out against Hitler, Stalin, the US presence in Vietnam, and the nuclear arms race.

From Quiz Things You Should Never Say to a Gorilla

Answer: Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen was a country music producer who worked for Decca records. Holly was signed to them on a one-year contract in 1956, which was not renewed a year later, though he did sign for a subsidiary company, Coral Records in 1957. All the others were collaborators with Holly, Berry and Montgomery as performers, and Owen Bradley was the producer on his track "That'll Be the Day"

From Quiz Incoherent Ramblings

Answer: Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins wrote "The God Delusion" and "The Selfish Gene". Some might say he is a crusading or evangelical atheist. Good job I'm not that someone. Douglas Adams is famous for his five part "Hitchhiker" trilogy (and for dying young - yet another reason to suppose there is no God). Although both Warren Buffet and Bill Gates profess to be atheists, one suspects they just haven't found a god who is good enough.

From Quiz A Difference of Opinion

Answer: Women

Poet as well as a novelist, George Meredith produced a total of fifteen full-length novels, eight collections of poetry, and countless minor works. Most of these are out of print today. At his worst, Meredith was verbose, unnecessarily complex and inclined to pontificate. His philosophy has alternately fascinated and exasperated scholars...

From Quiz Who Said What About Whom?

Answer: Henry VIII

Anne of Cleves, 1515-1557. Early in 1540, Henry VIII, after the death of Jane Seymour, arranged a marriage with Anne, after seeing Hans Holbein's beautiful portrait of her. In person, however, Anne was quite homely and the marriage was never consumated. She outlived all Henry VIII's other wives - no small achievement!

From Quiz Simply (But Not Simple) Quotes

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

From Quiz Assorted Literary Quotes

Answer: Franz Kafka

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