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Quiz about Great Quotes from Famous People

Great Quotes from Famous People Quiz


This is my first match quiz. Simply match the quote with the man who said it and enjoy.

A matching quiz by DeepHistory. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
DeepHistory
Time
4 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
380,508
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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682
Last 3 plays: Guest 173 (4/10), Guest 24 (3/10), Guest 197 (2/10).
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1. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."  
  Aristotle
2. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."  
  Robert E. Lee
3. "There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."  
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."  
  Winston Churchill
5. "I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."  
  Napoleon Bonaparte
6. "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."  
  Elizabeth I
7. "Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."  
  Socrates
8. "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."  
  Julius Caesar
9. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."  
  J.R.R. Tolkien
10. "Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less."  
  Thomas Hobbes





Select each answer

1. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
2. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
3. "There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."
4. "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
5. "I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."
6. "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
7. "Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
8. "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
9. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
10. "Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less."

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1. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica in 1769. He is known worldwide for his impressive military accomplishments. After the French Revolution, he gradually became an influential figure in France and managed to get crowned as an Emperor in 1804. He achieved great victories against his enemies, the other European empires, at Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland and Wagram, but his plans for creating French rule over Europe were foiled after invasions in Spain and Russia and, in 1814, he was removed from the throne and exiled to Elba, only to return in France one year later and defeated for good in Waterloo.

He died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
2. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Answer: Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was born in 1874. He is one of the best known British statesmen and was an influential figure who was active in British politics during both World Wars. At the start of World War One, he was First Lord of the Admiralty, but in late 1915, after the Allied failure in Gallipoli, he resigned and went to fight in France for several months before returning to the United Kingdom. During World War Two, he was the Prime Minister who coordinated Britain's war efforts in both political and military scale and became known as "The Father of Victory".

He died in 1965.
3. "There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."

Answer: Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I of England was born in 1533. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She ascended on the throne in 1558. During her reign, England became a world power and an effective antagonist of Spain, against which England scored a major victory in 1588, when the Spanish armada was destroyed by the English fleet.

Moreover, during her reign, the English drama flourished with playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Elizabeth took no husband thus, when she died in 1603, the Tudor dynasty of England came to an end.
4. "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

Answer: Socrates

Socrates was born between in 470 or 469 BC. He was one of the greatest philosophers ever and his philosophical methods laid, to a great extent, the foundations of western philosophy. Most of what we know about him comes from the writings of his students, Plato and Xenophon.

However, the fact that Socrates used his philosophy to criticize the bad elements of Athenian society and government led to his trial and subsequent execution by the means of drinking hemlock in 399 BC.
5. "I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."

Answer: Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC. He was one of the most famous Roman generals and leaders. Caesar was a member of the First Triumvirate, a coalition of the three most powerful men in Rome, which was formed in 59 BC and included Caesar, Marcus Crassus and Pompey the Great. Caesar later embarked on the conquest of Gaul, an undertaking in which he was successful, making the Roman borders reach the English channel and the Rhine River.

This conquest resulted also in Caesar amassing power. Terrified, his opponents in Rome - Pompey in particular - ordered him to disband his legions before returning in the city. Caesar did not oblige them and a civil war ensued, in which he was victorious and was proclaimed dictator for life.

However, he was assassinated in 44 BC by a group of his political enemies, including his adoptive son, Brutus.
6. "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

Answer: Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was born in 1588, on the very day that the Spanish Armada was defeated by the English. He is mostly known as the man who laid the foundations of the social contract thought. In contrast to the also famous John Locke, Hobbes defined the life of man in the natural state as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". Hobbes was a staunch believer in a strong state, controlled by an absolute sovereign.

He died in 1679.
7. "Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in 1821. He is one of the most famous Russian authors. He belongs in the literary school of realism. Prominent among his works are: "The Idiot", "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment". In politics, Dostoyevsky was inclined, at least in the late stages of his life, towards conservatism and he believed that his contemporary western Europe was erroneous in moving to liberalism.

He died in 1881.
8. "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Answer: Aristotle

Aristotle was born in 384 BC. He was an Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. His works compirse the first comprehensive system of Western Philosophy. He wrote about many subjects, such as philosophy, politics, ethics, physics, zoology and biology.

His works also helped shape Christian theology, mainly the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. In epistemology, he belonged to the school of empiricism, believing that all knowledge comes from experience and is based on perception. He died in 322 BC.
9. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892. He was a British author, best known for creating the fictional world of Middle Earth and authoring masterpieces such as "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". Although Tolkien was not the first fantasy author, his works led in the rebirth of the genre, and especially epic fantasy.

In popular culture, he has been identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature. Tolkien was also an ardent Catholic and he helped his friend C.S. Lewis convert from atheism to Christianity.

He died in 1973.
10. "Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less."

Answer: Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee was born in 1807. He was an American military leader, mostly remembered for leading the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the War Between the States, aka the American Civil War. He won a great string of battles, against superior Union numbers, earning the respect of friends and foes alike.

Some of his victories are Second Manassas (Bull Run), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Cold Harbor. Georgia politician Benjamin Hill wrote about General Lee: "When the future historian shall come to survey the character of Lee he will find it rising like a huge mountain above the undulating plane of humanity, and he must lift his eyes high toward heaven to catch its summit.

He possessed every virtue of other great commanders without their vices.

He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression; and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy and a man without guile.

He was a Caesar without his ambition; Frederick without his tyranny; Napoleon without his selfishness; and Washington without his reward. He was obedient to authority as a servant, and royal in authority as a true king. He was gentle as a woman in life; modest and pure as a virgin in thought; watchful as a Roman vestal in duty; submissive to law as Socrates; and grand in battle as Achilles." General Robert E. Lee died in 1870.
Source: Author DeepHistory

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