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Quiz about Possible Impossible and Percentages Quotes

Possible, Impossible and Percentages Quotes Quiz

The following quotes include impossibilities, possibilities and percentages, and a lot of them are funny to boot! Do you know who was responsible for these quotations?

A multiple-choice quiz by Engadine. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Engadine

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
139,950

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
2346

Last 3 plays: Johnmcmanners (15/15), stephedm (4/15), Dreessen (14/15).

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Question 1 of 15

1. "Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental." Hint

Yogi Berra

Jackie Robinson

Darryl Strawberry

Babe Ruth

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Question 2 of 15

2. "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." Hint

David Letterman

Jay Leno

Johnny Carson

Dick Cavett

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Question 3 of 15

3. "Only one thing is impossible for God, to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Hint

Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Tom Clancy

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Question 4 of 15

4. "It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." Hint

Steve Martin

Woody Allen

Robin Williams

Bob Hope

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Question 5 of 15

5. "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent." Hint

R D Laing

Sigmund Freud

Friedrich Nietzsche

Karen Horney

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Question 6 of 15

6. "I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract."
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Mel Brooks

Bob Hope

Charlie Chaplin

Groucho Marx

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Question 7 of 15

7. "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities." Hint

Ambrose Bierce

Mark Twain

George Bernard Shaw

Bertrand Russell

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Question 8 of 15

8. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Hint

Mae West

Dorothy Parker

Woody Allen

Will Rogers

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Question 9 of 15

9. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Hint

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jonathan Swift

Arthur Conan Doyle

Bram Stoker

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Question 10 of 15

10. "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." Hint

John Logie Baird

Albert Einstein

Thomas Edison

Thomas Adams

11. "Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law." Hint

Mary Leakey

Margaret Mead

Franz Boaz

Dian Fossey

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Question 12 of 15

12. "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." Hint

Rita Rudner

Joan Rivers

Phyllis Diller

Lily Tomlin

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Question 13 of 15

13. "Start by doing what is necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

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St Cecilia

St Patrick

St Francis of Assisi

St Francis Xavier

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Question 14 of 15

14. "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe." Hint

Don Rickles

George Burns

Jackie Mason

Red Buttons

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Question 15 of 15

15. "USA Today has come out with a new survey, apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population." Hint

Jay Leno

David Letterman

Jerry Springer

Neal Boortz

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental."

Answer: Yogi Berra

Lawrence Peter 'Yogi' Berra was born in 1925, and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He has also been quoted as saying, "It's deja vu all over again", and, "When you come to a fork in the road ... take it", and also, "I didn't really say everything I said."

2. "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."

Answer: Dick Cavett

American television host, Dick Cavett, was also quoted as having said, "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."

3. "Only one thing is impossible for God, to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."

Answer: Mark Twain

Other 'Twainisms' include, "Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own", and, "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

4. "It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

Answer: Woody Allen

Also quoted as having said, "It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."

5. "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Answer: R D Laing

Ronald David Laing, a controversial psychoanalyst also said, "Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high IQ's if possible."

6. "I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract."

Answer: Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx, who was born in 1890, and died at the age of 87, also said, "My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something."

7. "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities."

Answer: Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, wrote in 1890, "Of course I know that the properest way to demolish the Russian throne would be by revolution. But it is not possible to get up a revolution there; so the only thing left to do, apparently, is to keep the throne vacant by dynamite until a day when candidates shall decline with thanks. Then organise the Republic."

8. "Eighty percent of success is showing up."

Answer: Woody Allen

Woody Allen also said, "How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"

9. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Born in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered for his literary creation 'Sherlock Holmes'. He died in 1930 and is also quoted as having said, "Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognises the genius."

10. "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

Answer: Thomas Edison

Perhaps Thomas Alva Edison's most famous quote was, "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Answer: Margaret Mead

World famous American anthropologist, Margaret Mead, was also quoted as saying, "Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible."

12. "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

Answer: Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin also said, "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific", and, "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

13. "Start by doing what is necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Answer: St Francis of Assisi

Christened John in 1182, St Francis was renamed by his father! He founded the Franciscan Order of Friars in 1208 and died at the age of 44 in 1226.

14. "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."

Answer: Jackie Mason

US comedian, Jackie Mason, also said, "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something", and, "It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."

15. "USA Today has come out with a new survey, apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."

Answer: David Letterman

David Letterman was also quoted as having said, "I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host."

Source: Author Engadine

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