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Famous Quotes in Other Words Trivia Quiz

These quotes (fictional, historical, and religious) are beautiful in their original form, but my friend has garbled them a bit - can you tell me about the quotes in their true forms?

A multiple-choice quiz by merylfederman. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
merylfederman

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
359,584

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
1768

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Question 1 of 10

1. "Bidding adieu is quite a delectable sadness!" lament the title lovers from "Romeo and Juliet" - what activity are they lamenting? Hint

Crying

Parting

Falling

Dying

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Let me borrow your auditory appendages!" exhorts Marc Antony from "Julius Caesar," so what exactly is he asking for? Hint

Eyes

Feet

Hands

Ears

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Question 3 of 10

3. "The all-powerful deity no longer exists!" was an aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsche in which he uses which one-word description for the Almighty? Hint

Dead

Lost

Gone

Forsaken

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Allow those people to consume confectionary products!" was attributed to Marie Antoinette, queen of France during the Revolution. What food item, exactly, was in the quote? Hint

Cake

Bagels

Toast

Crackers

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Demand to know what you are able to do for your nation," declared President Kennedy in his inaugural address. Which word did he actually use for the place we must find how we can help? Hint

Country

State

Home

Place

6. "Gather the standard people of interest" says a character from "Casablanca," but what two-word phrase - that also brings to mind a Kevin Spacey film - did he actually use to describe the people he wanted gathered?

Answer: (Two words; 5 letters, 8 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. "A particular time that shall be perpetuated in notoriety" was how Franklin Roosevelt described an attack on the United States, but what exactly was that negative state in which we would remember it?

Answer: (One Word; 6 letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Bid good day to my tiny pal!" screams Al Pacino in "Scarface," but what two-word phrase does he actually say we should bid good day to?

Answer: (Two words; 6 letters, 6 letters)

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Question 9 of 10

9. "I view the deceased," says Haley Joel Osment in the "Sixth Sense," but what verb is actually used in this quote?

Answer: (One Word; 3 letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Watch out for the middle of the third month of the year," says a soothsayer in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," but what is the three-word phrase for the exact time we must watch out for?

Answer: (Three Words; 4 letters, 2 letters, 5 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Bidding adieu is quite a delectable sadness!" lament the title lovers from "Romeo and Juliet" - what activity are they lamenting?

Answer: Parting

The famous balcony scene where Romeo and Juliet swear their love for each other, ends with Romeo leaving and Juliet saying "parting is such sweet sorrow, that we shall say good night till it be morrow." They can't wait to see each other again (oh, young love)! Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" features this romantic interlude.

2. "Let me borrow your auditory appendages!" exhorts Marc Antony from "Julius Caesar," so what exactly is he asking for?

Answer: Ears

Antony summons the crowd to attention at Caesar's funeral in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" by calling out to his "friends, Romans, countrymen," to "lend me your ears" for the duration of the eulogy.

3. "The all-powerful deity no longer exists!" was an aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsche in which he uses which one-word description for the Almighty?

Answer: Dead

Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, was famous for his aphorisms and concise take-aways, one major one of which was "God is dead," a pithy way of describing modernity and its lack of need for a God.

4. "Allow those people to consume confectionary products!" was attributed to Marie Antoinette, queen of France during the Revolution. What food item, exactly, was in the quote?

Answer: Cake

Marie Antoinette, out-of-touch queen of France before and during the French Revolution, was quoted as saying "let them eat cake" upon hearing that the people couldn't afford bread. "Cake" was actually a reference to leftover crust materials for bread products, so it was quite insulting, but the quote is almost definitely a false attribution, and may have been spoken by Marie Antoinette's mother, Maria Theresa of Austria.

5. "Demand to know what you are able to do for your nation," declared President Kennedy in his inaugural address. Which word did he actually use for the place we must find how we can help?

Answer: Country

John Kennedy, president of the United States from 1961 to 1963, said "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" in his inaugural speech.

Answer: Usual suspects

"Casablanca," the legendary 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was a minefield of beautiful quotes. From "we'll always have Paris" to "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" and beyond, it's the "Hamlet" of cinema for quotes, and one often repeated by the police is "round up the usual suspects".

Answer: Infamy

FDR famously described the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the date of December 7th, 1941, as "a date which shall live in infamy," and over seventy years later his prophecy has proven true.

8. "Bid good day to my tiny pal!" screams Al Pacino in "Scarface," but what two-word phrase does he actually say we should bid good day to?

Answer: little friend

Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino, yells "say hello to my little friend" to announce his not-at-all-little assault rifle which he is about to fire with abandon at his foes.

9. "I view the deceased," says Haley Joel Osment in the "Sixth Sense," but what verb is actually used in this quote?

Answer: See

Haley Joel Osment, as Cole Sear, confides in his therapist, Bruce Willis' Malcolm Crowe, that he sees dead people. He is a troubled child, but, well let's just say he's not wrong.

10. "Watch out for the middle of the third month of the year," says a soothsayer in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," but what is the three-word phrase for the exact time we must watch out for?

Answer: Ides of March

Julius Caesar, the title character of the play, is told by a wise old soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March" (or March 15), the very day that the assassination conspiracy comes to a head and fells him.

Source: Author merylfederman

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