Famous Quotes Quiz

Question 1

Who said: 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Winston Churchill

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Abraham Lincoln

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 2

Who said: 'I have a dream'?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Nelson Mandela

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Malcolm X

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Barack Obama

Question 3

Who is credited with saying: 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'?

Accepted Answer

Patrick Henry

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George Washington

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Thomas Jefferson

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Benjamin Franklin

Question 4

Who said: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'?

Accepted Answer

Neil Armstrong

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Buzz Aldrin

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Yuri Gagarin

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John Glenn

Question 5

Who said: 'Elementary, my dear Watson'?

Accepted Answer

Sherlock Holmes (in stage/film adaptations)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes (in the original stories)

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Inspector Lestrade

Question 6

Who said: 'Be the change you wish to see in the world'?

Accepted Answer

Mahatma Gandhi

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Nelson Mandela

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Dalai Lama

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Mother Teresa

Question 7

Who said: 'In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity'?

Accepted Answer

Albert Einstein

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Isaac Newton

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Stephen Hawking

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Marie Curie

Question 8

Who said: 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet (the character)

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William Shakespeare

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Christopher Marlowe

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Francis Bacon

Question 9

Who said: 'We shall fight on the beaches... we shall never surrender'?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Charles de Gaulle

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 10

Who said: 'It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop'?

Accepted Answer

Confucius

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Lao Tzu

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Buddha

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Sun Tzu

Question 11

Who is credited with: 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee'?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

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Joe Louis

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Sugar Ray Leonard

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Mike Tyson

Question 12

Who said: 'The only way to do great work is to love what you do'?

Accepted Answer

Steve Jobs

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Bill Gates

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Elon Musk

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Mark Zuckerberg

Question 13

Who said: 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'?

Accepted Answer

Lord Acton

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Thomas Jefferson

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Voltaire

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Machiavelli

Question 14

Who said: 'Imagination is more important than knowledge'?

Accepted Answer

Albert Einstein

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Nikola Tesla

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Isaac Newton

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 15

Who said: 'In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on'?

Accepted Answer

Robert Frost

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Ernest Hemingway

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Mark Twain

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 16

Who said: 'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world'?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Kofi Annan

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Malala Yousafzai

Question 17

Who said: 'I think, therefore I am' (Cogito, ergo sum)?

Accepted Answer

René Descartes

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Aristotle

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Plato

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Immanuel Kant

Question 18

Who said: 'Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country'?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

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Abraham Lincoln

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Ronald Reagan

Question 19

Who said: 'The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall'?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Winston Churchill

Question 20

Who said: 'Well-behaved women seldom make history'?

Accepted Answer

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Marie Curie

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Marilyn Monroe

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Gloria Steinem