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Quiz about Profound Wisdom and Clever Sayings

Profound Wisdom and Clever Sayings Quiz

Some advice is profound, some is clever. These are good examples of both.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
11,890

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
3046

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'This above all - to thine own self be true' Hint

Julius Caesar

Othello

Hamlet

King Lear

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Question 2 of 10

2. Shakespeare again on Life : 'It is a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot, signifying nothing' Hint

Antony and Cleopatra

The Tempest

Macbeth

Coriolanus

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Question 3 of 10

3. Know Thyself Hint

Plato

Cicero

Aristotle

Socrates

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Question 4 of 10

4. Youth is wasted on the young Hint

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Bernard Shaw

Voltaire

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you ...' Hint

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Rudyard Kipling

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind' Hint

John Donne

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

John Keats

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself' Hint

Canterbury Tales

Desiderata

Oedipus Rex

Everyman

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Question 8 of 10

8. On wedded bliss: 'Here lies me wife. Let her lie. Now she's at peace ... and so am I' Hint

Thomas Hood

D.H. Lawrence

Charles Baudelaire

John Dryden

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Question 9 of 10

9. A little humor: As he lay dying, a broken man in a seedy hotel, legend has it that this witty fellow remarked: 'it's me or the wallpaper - one of us has got to go'. Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Oscar Wilde

Ernest Hemingway

F Scott Fitzgerald

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Question 10 of 10

10. On sex: 'the pleasure is brief, the position ridiculous, and the cost ghastly' Hint

William Butler Yeats

Lord Chesterfield

William Wordsworth

Ezra Pound

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'This above all - to thine own self be true'

Answer: Hamlet

Hamlet, of course

2. Shakespeare again on Life : 'It is a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot, signifying nothing'

Answer: Macbeth

Borrowed later by Faulkner

3. Know Thyself

Answer: Socrates

Attributed to Socrates. great wisdom - in two words

4. Youth is wasted on the young

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Great line, isn't it?

5. 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you ...'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

The poem 'If', by Rudyard Kipling. Good poem.

6. 'Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind'

Answer: John Donne

This piece also includes the line about 'for whom the bell tolls'

7. 'Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself'

Answer: Desiderata

The Desiderata was not found in an ancient {ruin;} it was written by a Chicago businessman in modern times.

8. On wedded bliss: 'Here lies me wife. Let her lie. Now she's at peace ... and so am I'

Answer: John Dryden

9. A little humor: As he lay dying, a broken man in a seedy hotel, legend has it that this witty fellow remarked: 'it's me or the wallpaper - one of us has got to go'.

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Great line.

10. On sex: 'the pleasure is brief, the position ridiculous, and the cost ghastly'

Answer: Lord Chesterfield

This may be a bit of a paraphrase - I'm quoting from memory. It's from Chesterfield's letters of advice (to his nephew, I believe). Cute.

Source: Author robert362

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