Glossary Quiz On Quotes
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- 1.
What famous person said, "Genius is born--not paid."?
- A.
Helen Keller
- B.
Oscar Wilde
- C.
Robert Frost
- D.
Virgil
Correct Answer
B. Oscar Wilde -
- 2.
Whose quote is "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."?
- A.
Oscar Wilde
- B.
Benjamin Franklin
- C.
Ellen DeGeneres
- D.
Ayn Rand
Correct Answer
A. Oscar Wilde -
- 3.
Who said, "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."?
- A.
Confucius
- B.
Ayn Rand
- C.
Virgil
- D.
Oscar Wilde
Correct Answer
D. Oscar Wilde -
- 4.
Who said, "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."?
- A.
Oscar Wilde
- B.
Socrates
- C.
Abraham Lincoln
- D.
Virgil
Correct Answer
A. Oscar Wilde -
- 5.
Who said, "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."?
- A.
Albert Einstein
- B.
Mark Twain
- C.
Voltaire
- D.
Henry David Thoreau
Correct Answer
B. Mark Twain -
- 6.
What famous person said, "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."?
- A.
Mark Twain
- B.
Virgil
- C.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- D.
Samuel Godwyn
Correct Answer
A. Mark Twain -
- 7.
Whose quote is "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."?
- A.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- B.
Cicero
- C.
Oprah Winfrey
- D.
Mark Twain
Correct Answer
D. Mark Twain -
- 8.
Who said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."?
- A.
Woody Allen
- B.
Fran Lebowitz
- C.
Mark Twain
- D.
George Carlin
Correct Answer
C. Mark Twain -
- 9.
What famous person said, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."?
- A.
Bertrand Russell
- B.
Henry David Thoreau
- C.
George W. Bush
- D.
Mark Twain
Correct Answer
D. Mark Twain -
- 10.
Whose quote is "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean."?
- A.
Groucho Marx
- B.
George Carlin
- C.
Mark Twain
- D.
J.R.R Tolkein
Correct Answer
C. Mark Twain -
- 11.
What famous person said, "Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."?
- A.
J.K. Rowling
- B.
Winston Churchill
- C.
Charles Dickens
- D.
Mark Twain
Correct Answer
D. Mark Twain -
- 12.
Whose quote is "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."?
- A.
Sophocles
- B.
Mark Twain
- C.
Helen Keller
- D.
Thomas Jefferson
Correct Answer
B. Mark Twain -
- 13.
Who said, "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."?
- A.
Mark Twain
- B.
Robert Frost
- C.
W. Somerset Maugham
- D.
Bertrand Russell
Correct Answer
A. Mark Twain -
- 14.
Whose quote is "How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!"?
- A.
John F. Kennedy
- B.
Cicero
- C.
Confucius
- D.
Sophocles
Correct Answer
D. Sophocles -
- 15.
Who said, "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."?
- A.
Winston Churchill
- B.
Friedrich Nietzche
- C.
Oscar Wilde
- D.
Socrates
Correct Answer
D. Socrates -
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