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Homicide - Quotes Trivia Quiz

This quiz consists of some famous quotes about this subject.

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

Author
ear_ring

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
342,700

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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426

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Question 1 of 10

1. Ambrouse Bierce (1842-1914) wrote: "There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and" - what else? Hint

foolish

unforgivable

praiseworthy

indifferent

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Murder begins where ... ends". Georg B�chner Hint

common sense

self-defense

selfishness

humanity

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Question 3 of 10

3. Hercule Poirot said that "every murderer is probably somebody's ______? Hint

victim

judge

child

old friend

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Better murder _______ than nurse an unacted desire." Hint

yourself

an infant in its cradle

your neighbour

your opponent

5. "Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that." Who said that? Hint

Martin Luther King, Jr

Mahandas Gandhi

Mother Teresa

C.S.Lewis

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Question 6 of 10

6. "One murder made a villain, millions a ..." Hint

monster

warrior

tyrant

hero

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Never attempt to murder a man who is ..." Hint

commiting suicide

terminally ill

condemned

your father

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who said the following? "Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Hint

George Orwell

George Carlin

Ronald Reagan

Alfred Hitchcock

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which famous dictator said? "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."
Hint

Nicolo Machiavelli

Josef Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Osama bin Laden

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Question 10 of 10

10. "To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than _________." Dostoevsky Hint

death from starvation

a slow death from tuberculosis

murder by brigands

to die on a battlefield

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Ambrouse Bierce (1842-1914) wrote: "There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and" - what else?

Answer: praiseworthy

The quote continues, ' ... but of course it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers". - Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary. This is one of my most favorite quotations - cynical, but very realistic!

2. "Murder begins where ... ends". Georg B�chner

Answer: self-defense

To put it more eloquently, "Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act." - Benjamin Tucker

3. Hercule Poirot said that "every murderer is probably somebody's ______?

Answer: old friend

I like to read crime fiction stories by Agatha Cristie and other writers - but I don't like to have anything to do with a real life murder!

4. "Better murder _______ than nurse an unacted desire."

Answer: an infant in its cradle

From: William Blake (1757-1827) "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Proverbs of Hell" He also stated that "Active Evil is better than Passive Good."

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr

I call this a 'non-aggression principle'.

6. "One murder made a villain, millions a ..."

Answer: hero

"Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime."
- Beilby Porteus, "Death: A Poetical Essay".
Compare Raskolnikov and Napoleon! :)

7. "Never attempt to murder a man who is ..."

Answer: commiting suicide

President Woodrow Wilson. What his opinion about physician-assisted suicide was, I don't know.

8. Who said the following? "Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Rather appropriate for a film director!

9. Which famous dictator said? "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."

Answer: Josef Stalin

Another famous Stalin quote is: "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

10. "To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than _________." Dostoevsky

Answer: murder by brigands

Dostoevsky was opposed to capital punishment. This quote is from "The Idiot". His criminal characters are never executed, but either commit suicide or sent to prison.

Source: Author ear_ring

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