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  • 1. 

    Whose quote is "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."?

    • A.

      Robert Frost

    • B.

      Groucho Marx

    • C.

      J.K. Rowling

    • D.

      Plato

    Correct Answer
    C. J.K. Rowling
  • 2. 

    What famous person said, "It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."?

    • A.

      Fran Lebowitz

    • B.

      Maya Angelou

    • C.

      Oscar Wilde

    • D.

      J.K. Rowling

    Correct Answer
    D. J.K. Rowling
  • 3. 

    Whose quote is "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."?

    • A.

      Steve Jobs

    • B.

      Theodore Roosevelt

    • C.

      Benjamin Disraeli

    • D.

      Ronald Reagan

    Correct Answer
    B. Theodore Roosevelt
  • 4. 

    What famous person said, "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."?

    • A.

      Theodore Roosevelt

    • B.

      Woody Allen

    • C.

      Robert Frost

    • D.

      Martin Luther King Jr.

    Correct Answer
    A. Theodore Roosevelt
  • 5. 

    What famous person said, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."?

    • A.

      William Shakespeare

    • B.

      Martin Luther King Jr.

    • C.

      Theodore Roosevelt

    • D.

      George Santayana

    Correct Answer
    C. Theodore Roosevelt
  • 6. 

    What famous person said, "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."?

    • A.

      Franklin D. Roosevelt

    • B.

      Homer

    • C.

      William Shakespeare

    • D.

      Albert Einstein

    Correct Answer
    A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 7. 

    Who said, "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."?

    • A.

      J.R.R Tolkein

    • B.

      Theodore Roosevelt

    • C.

      Franklin D. Roosevelt

    • D.

      Mark Twain

    Correct Answer
    C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 8. 

    Whose quote is "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."?

    • A.

      William Shakespeare

    • B.

      Ellen DeGeneres

    • C.

      George Bernard Shaw

    • D.

      Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Correct Answer
    D. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 9. 

    What famous person said, "As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God."?

    • A.

      Franklin D. Roosevelt

    • B.

      Winston Churchill

    • C.

      W. Somerset Maugham

    • D.

      Theodore Roosevelt

    Correct Answer
    A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 10. 

    Who said, "Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."?

    • A.

      Eleanor Roosevelt

    • B.

      Dwight D. Eisenhower

    • C.

      George W. Bush

    • D.

      Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Correct Answer
    A. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 11. 

    Whose quote is "I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."?

    • A.

      Eleanor Roosevelt

    • B.

      Carl Jung

    • C.

      W. Somerset Maugham

    • D.

      J.R.R Tolkein

    Correct Answer
    A. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 12. 

    Who said, "I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."?

    • A.

      Eleanor Roosevelt

    • B.

      Fran Lebowitz

    • C.

      Theodore Roosevelt

    • D.

      Samuel Godwyn

    Correct Answer
    A. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 13. 

    What famous person said, "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."?

    • A.

      Sophocles

    • B.

      Albert Einstein

    • C.

      Eleanor Roosevelt

    • D.

      Ronald Reagan

    Correct Answer
    C. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 14. 

    Whose quote is "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."?

    • A.

      George Bernard Shaw

    • B.

      Oscar Wilde

    • C.

      Eleanor Roosevelt

    • D.

      Ellen DeGeneres

    Correct Answer
    C. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 15. 

    What famous person said, "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."?

    • A.

      Eleanor Roosevelt

    • B.

      Mark Twain

    • C.

      Robert Frost

    • D.

      Oscar Wilde

    Correct Answer
    A. Eleanor Roosevelt

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