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Who Said or Wrote It? Trivia Quiz

This quiz will see how well you recall what historical people said or wrote. Many of these quotes have become immortalized.

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

Author
mythawk

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
31,071

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
2057

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who said: 'I have not yet begun to fight'? Hint

George Washington

Patrick Henry

John Paul Jones

Samuel Adams

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who said: 'Give me liberty or give me death'? Hint

John Paul Jones

John Jay

Alexander Hamilton

Patrick Henry

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Question 3 of 10

3. Evelyn Beatrice Hall summed up which philosopher's attitude with the words, 'I may disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it'? Hint

Voltaire

Rousseau

Diderot

John Locke

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who said to Dan Quayle: 'Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy'?

Answer: (First name and last name only)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who said: 'Read my lips, no new taxes'? Hint

Newt Gingrich

Ronald Reagan

George H W Bush

Richard Nixon

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who allegedly said: 'Et tu, Brute?' Hint

Mark Antony

Julius Caesar

Cleopatra

Suetonius

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who wrote: 'All the world's a stage'? Hint

Shakespeare

Vaclav Havel

Sophocles

Tennessee Williams

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who said: 'December 7, 1941, A date which will live in infamy'? Hint

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Harry Truman

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who said: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country'? Hint

Abraham Lincoln

Lyndon B Johnson

John F Kennedy

Franklin D Roosevelt

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who had written (on his tombstone): 'Cast a cold eye on life, on death, horsemen pass by'? Hint

W.B. Yeats

Pablo Neruda

James Joyce

Gandhi

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who said: 'I have not yet begun to fight'?

Answer: John Paul Jones

His ship was the Bonhomme Richard.

2. Who said: 'Give me liberty or give me death'?

Answer: Patrick Henry

He said this the Virginia House of Burgesses.

3. Evelyn Beatrice Hall summed up which philosopher's attitude with the words, 'I may disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it'?

Answer: Voltaire

Voltaire was a French philosopher who loved wigs and held wigmakers in high regard. The phrase often attributed to Voltaire himself was penned by Hall under the nom de plume of S.G. Tallentyre in the book, "The Friends of Voltaire".

4. Who said to Dan Quayle: 'Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy'?

Answer: Lloyd Bentsen

This was said at a 1988 V.P. debate.

5. Who said: 'Read my lips, no new taxes'?

Answer: George H W Bush

An often invoked, though never achieved, campaign promise.

6. Who allegedly said: 'Et tu, Brute?'

Answer: Julius Caesar

However, there is not one scrap of evidence that Julius Caesar actually said this. The quote, popularized by Shakespeare, does not predate the 1580s.

7. Who wrote: 'All the world's a stage'?

Answer: Shakespeare

They call him 'The Bard' :)

8. Who said: 'December 7, 1941, A date which will live in infamy'?

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Referring to the event that ushered the US into World War II, the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.

9. Who said: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country'?

Answer: John F Kennedy

An easy one?

10. Who had written (on his tombstone): 'Cast a cold eye on life, on death, horsemen pass by'?

Answer: W.B. Yeats

He was an Irish poet who composed his own epitaph. He is buried in County Sligo, Ireland.

Source: Author mythawk

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