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What Does Simon Really Say? Trivia Quiz

We all know that Simon Says to put our hands on our heads and run in place and all that, but what do people with the first or last name of Simon actually say?

A multiple-choice quiz by Kmanpat. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Kmanpat

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
318,192

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
402

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work." Hint

Neil Simon

Carly Simon

Paul Simon

Herbert Simon

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Question 2 of 10

2. "If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet." Hint

Paul Simon

Norton Simon

Carly Simon

Neil Simon

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Question 3 of 10

3. "I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account." Hint

Simon Travaglia

Simon Cowell

Simon Newcomb

Simon Pegg

4. "I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap." Hint

Simon Cameron

Simon Pegg

Simon Cowell

Simon van der Meer

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls." Hint

Carly Simon

Norton Simon

Paul Simon

Herbert Simon

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Question 6 of 10

6. "It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it." Hint

Simon Travaglia

Simon Cameron

Simon van der Meer

Simon Pegg

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books." Hint

Simon Cameron

Simon Pegg

Simon Raven

Simon Cowell

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Question 8 of 10

8. "My last wish is for the happiness of the fatherland. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the Union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave." Hint

Simon Bolivar

Simon Newcomb

Simon Cowell

Simon Raven

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Question 9 of 10

9. "That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?" Hint

Simon Pegg

Simon Cowell

Simon Bolivar

Simon Newcomb

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Question 10 of 10

10. "My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators." Hint

Simon Newcomb

Simon van der Meer

Simon Raven

Simon Cameron

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."

Answer: Paul Simon

Paul Simon is an American singer/songwriter, best known for his work with Art Garfunkel in the late 1960s. In 2006, "Time" magazine named him one of the "100 People Who Have Shaped Our World".

2. "If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet."

Answer: Neil Simon

An American author and playwright, Neil Simon is best known for works such as "The Odd Couple" (1966) and "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983). He also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991 for "Lost in Yonkers".

3. "I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."

Answer: Simon Newcomb

Simon Newcomb was a Canadian astronomer who spent much of his professional career working towards perfecting the measurement of the speed of light. When he died in 1909, President Taft buried him with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

Answer: Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell is British, and is most known for his work on the American television series "American Idol" and the British series "Britain's Got Talent". Simon's sharp wit and biting sarcasm is known in many of his quotes for the many shows in which he is involved.

Answer: Carly Simon

Ms. Simon is an American songwriter who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994 and has won the Academy Award for best song in 1988 for "Let the River Run". Ms. Simon is the proud mother of two children, both of whom have followed in their mother's footsteps and become musicians.

6. "It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."

Answer: Simon Travaglia

Mr. Travaglia is an author from New Zealand whose published books include "The Bastard Operator From Hell" and "Dial "B" For Bastard". His path to personal happiness includes his three cows and one cat.

7. "Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."

Answer: Simon Raven

Simon Raven is a British author who published for about thirty years starting in the late 1950s. Raven died in London in 2001 after a series of strokes causing a speedy decline in health.

8. "My last wish is for the happiness of the fatherland. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the Union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave."

Answer: Simon Bolivar

Bolivar was a South American political leader who found prominence as the first president of both Colombia and Bolivia. Just a few days before he succumbed to tuberculosis, he was reported to have delivered this valedictory to the people of Colombia. He had been planning to leave the country and settle in France, having resigned the presidency of the country six months previously. Today, he is regarded as a national hero by half of South America.

Answer: Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg, born Simon Beckingham, is a British actor who is best known to the American audience through his work in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Star Trek" (2009). Pegg is also the godfather of Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple.

10. "My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."

Answer: Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer is a Dutch accelerator physicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1984. He has produced the W and Z bosons through his work.

Source: Author Kmanpat

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