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Quiz about Truth Be Told
Quiz about Truth Be Told

Truth Be Told Trivia Quiz


Quotes about truth from famous people. The images give a clue to the correct answer.

A photo quiz by wjames. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
wjames
Time
3 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
369,658
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1019
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 173 (9/10), Guest 174 (7/10), Guest 68 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which famous 20th-century Briton is quoted as saying "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Which witty 19th-century Irish poet and writer said "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which 20th-century English novelist, journalist and critic wrote: "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act"? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Which Spanish Cubist artist said "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which American author, 1835-1910, said "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which 1960s potty-mouthed comedian said "The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept."? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which "enlightened" French writer and philosopher, best known by a nom de plume, wrote "Love truth, but pardon error."? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Which peaceful leader of their country's independence movement wrote "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which American founding father wrote "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Which English painter and poet penned "A truth that's told with bad intent / Beats all the lies you can invent."? Hint



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1. Which famous 20th-century Briton is quoted as saying "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Answer: Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was twice Prime Minister of the UK (1940-45 and 1951-55). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 "... for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
2. Which witty 19th-century Irish poet and writer said "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is the only Irishman of those listed, I hope that was a good hint. He led an interesting and controversial life, and was imprisoned for two years toward the end. Upon gaining his freedom in 1897, he abandoned Ireland and travelled to Europe under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth. He died destitute in Paris in 1900.
3. Which 20th-century English novelist, journalist and critic wrote: "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act"?

Answer: George Orwell

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric A. Blair. Orwell was a dedicated democratic socialist, strongly opposed to totalitarianism which he saw in his life under Fascist and Soviet rule and which he wrote about in "1984" and "Animal Farm".
4. Which Spanish Cubist artist said "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

Answer: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso spent the first 20 or so years of his life in his native Spain, but the remainder of his 91 years were spent largely in France. One of his most famous paintings is "Guernica", showing the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War in 1937 - a great example of a "lie" that enables the truth.
5. Which American author, 1835-1910, said "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."?

Answer: Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens (pen name Mark Twain) was born in a year when Halley's Comet appeared. In 1909 he wrote "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.

The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" Twain indeed died in 1910, the day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
6. Which 1960s potty-mouthed comedian said "The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept."?

Answer: George Carlin

George Carlin earned a citation from the FCC when his famous routine "Filthy Words" was played on a prime time radio show. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the speech was indecent and the FCC had the right to prohibit the broadcast at a time when children were likely to hear it.
7. Which "enlightened" French writer and philosopher, best known by a nom de plume, wrote "Love truth, but pardon error."?

Answer: Voltaire

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) is a preeminent figure of the Enlightenment. A prolific writer on many subjects, his works advocating freedom of religion, the separation of church and state and freedom of speech inspired the American and French revolutions, among others.
8. Which peaceful leader of their country's independence movement wrote "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."?

Answer: M.K. Gandhi

Gandhi's first name is Mohandas; the more familiar Mahatma is an honorific title than means "venerable" in Sanskrit. He first earned this title in South Africa in 1914 for his work to improve the civil rights of the Indian residents of that country.
9. Which American founding father wrote "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."?

Answer: George Washington

Perhaps this is a better statement of George Washington's morals than the alleged incident with the cherry tree. Biographer Parson Weems first collected the cherry tree anecdote after Washington's death, reportedly from older persons who knew the youthful George. Parson reports the climax of this story as: "I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." "Run to my arms, you dearest boy," cried his father in transports, "run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold."
10. Which English painter and poet penned "A truth that's told with bad intent / Beats all the lies you can invent."?

Answer: William Blake

William Blake was better appreciated after his death than he was while he was actively painting and writing. Blake was described by William Rossetti, a writer and critic who was prominent decades after Blake died, as "... a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors."
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