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Quotes and Wisdom Trivia Quiz

Who said it? Some should be fairly easy, others not.

A multiple-choice quiz by sprink1234. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
sprink1234

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
37,017

Updated
Aug 16 24

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
13 / 25

Plays
5132

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 50 (0/25), masfon (25/25), DeepHistory (23/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. 'To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.' Hint

Theodore Roosevelt

Joseph Stalin

Winston Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 2 of 25

2. 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' Hint

Calvin Coolidge

J. Edgar Hoover

John F. Kennedy

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 3 of 25

3. 'Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.' Hint

Confucius

Socrates

Buddha

Voltaire

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Question 4 of 25

4. 'You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.' Hint

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson

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Question 5 of 25

5. 'You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.' Hint

J.P. Morgan

William Vanderbilt

Henry Ford

J.D. Rockefeller

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Question 6 of 25

6. 'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.' Hint

Isaac Newton

Galileo

Martin Luther

Copernicus

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Question 7 of 25

7. 'A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.' Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Robert Frost

Henry David Thoreau

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Question 8 of 25

8. 'I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.' Hint

Chuck Yeagar

John Glenn

Alan Shepard

Buzz Aldrin

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Question 9 of 25

9. 'You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.' Hint

Malcolm X

Medgar Evers

Robert E. Lee

John Lennon

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Question 10 of 25

10. 'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.' Hint

Gandhi

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Sigmund Freud

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Question 11 of 25

11. 'The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.' Hint

Vladimir Lenin

Adolf Hitler

Mussolini

Napoleon

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Question 12 of 25

12. 'Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.' Hint

Alexander Hamilton

Patrick Henry

Aaron Burr

Paul Revere

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Question 13 of 25

13. 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.' Hint

Stephen King

Alfred Hitchcock

Orson Welles

Boris Karloff

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Question 14 of 25

14. 'Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.' Hint

Francis Scott Key

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Paine

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Question 15 of 25

15. 'Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.' Hint

J. Edgar Hoover

Henry Kissinger

James Baker

Richard Nixon

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Question 16 of 25

16. 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' Hint

Michaelangelo

Voltaire

Leonardo de Vinci

Napoleon

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Question 17 of 25

17. 'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.' Hint

Aristotle

Plato

Alexander the Great

Julius Caesar

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Question 18 of 25

18. 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' Hint

Woodrow Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 19 of 25

19. 'If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.' Hint

Dalai Lama

Ansel Adams

Carl Sagan

Darwin

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Question 20 of 25

20. 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.' Hint

Mark Twain

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ernest Hemingway

L. Ron Hubbard

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Question 21 of 25

21. 'Half this game is 90 percent mental.' Hint

Yogi Berra

Michael Jordan

John Wooden

Babe Ruth

22. 'It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.' Hint

Sally Ride

John Glenn

Neil Armstrong

Alan Shepard

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Question 23 of 25

23. 'The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.' Hint

Charles Dickens

Oscar Wilde

Walt Disney

Herman Melville

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Question 24 of 25

24. 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.' Hint

Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein

Socrates

Sir Francis Bacon

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Question 25 of 25

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

Chaucer

William Shakespeare

St. Peter

John Calvin

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