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Quiz about What I Said Was
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What I Said Was... Trivia Quiz

There's no better way to sound smart than by dropping a perfectly timed quote but make sure you get it right!

A multiple-choice quiz by sally0malley. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
sally0malley
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
368,046
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
880
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Question 1 of 10
1. In which narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a line often misquoted as "Theirs is but to do or die"?
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Question 2 of 10
2. "The rest is science" is a quote from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".


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Question 3 of 10
3. What is the incorrect word in the misquote "but to my mind,-though I am native here and to the manor born-it is a custom more honour'd in the breach than the observance" and what should the word be? Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. What is the original quote from "Forrest Gump", the novel written by Winston Groom, which was changed in the film?
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Question 5 of 10
5. From which poem by Thomas Gray is "far from the maddening crowd" a misquote? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. "Musick hath (music has) charms to sooth the savage breast" is a misquote. The correct line is "Musick hath (music has) charms to sooth a savage beast".


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Question 7 of 10
7. "The better part of valor is discretion", often misquoted as "Discretion is the better part of valor" is from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".


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Question 8 of 10
8. Where in the Bible can the quote "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" (KJV) be found, often misquoted as "Pride goeth before a fall"? Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. "Dreams are the royal road to consciousness" is a misquote from which founding father of psychoanalysis? Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. "Spare the ____, spoil the child" is a misquote from the Bible. What's the missing word?

Answer: (one word, three letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In which narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a line often misquoted as "Theirs is but to do or die"?

Answer: The Charge of the Light Brigade

 The correct line from is "Theirs but to do AND die". "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is narrative poem about the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, written in 1854.

The poem tells the story of a brigade consisting of 600 soldiers who rode on horseback into the "valley of death". They were obeying a command to charge the enemy forces even though the soldiers realized that their commander had made a terrible mistake.
2. "The rest is science" is a quote from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

Answer: False

"The rest is SILENCE" from Act V Scene 2, are the last words spoken by Prince Hamlet.
3. What is the incorrect word in the misquote "but to my mind,-though I am native here and to the manor born-it is a custom more honour'd in the breach than the observance" and what should the word be?

Answer: manor, manner

 The correct quote is actually referring to drunken carousing! It's from Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Act 1 Scene 4.
4. What is the original quote from "Forrest Gump", the novel written by Winston Groom, which was changed in the film?

Answer: Bein' an idiot ain't no box of chocolates.

 The novel, "Forrest Gump" was written in 1986 and sold an estimated 30,000 copies. In the 1994 film adaptation the character, Forrest Gump quotes his mother saying "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." The actual quote from the opening of the novel is "Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates."
5. From which poem by Thomas Gray is "far from the maddening crowd" a misquote?

Answer: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 The correct quote from the poem is "far from the madding crowd". It was later used as the title of one of Thomas Hardy's most successful novels, published in 1874.
6. "Musick hath (music has) charms to sooth the savage breast" is a misquote. The correct line is "Musick hath (music has) charms to sooth a savage beast".

Answer: False

The quote is from the tragedy, "The Morning Bride", written by William Congreve in 1697. The complete line "Musick hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak" is spoken in Act 1 Scene 1.
7. "The better part of valor is discretion", often misquoted as "Discretion is the better part of valor" is from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

Answer: False

"The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life" is from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" spoken by the character Falstaff after he pretends to be dead on the battlefield.
8. Where in the Bible can the quote "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" (KJV) be found, often misquoted as "Pride goeth before a fall"?

Answer: Proverbs 16:18

 Misquotes often provide a shorter and snappier variation of the original, longer phrase.
9. "Dreams are the royal road to consciousness" is a misquote from which founding father of psychoanalysis?

Answer: Sigmund Freud

 The correct quote "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind" is from his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" written in 1900. In the book Freud first discusses his theory which would later become known as the Oedipus Complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times.
10. "Spare the ____, spoil the child" is a misquote from the Bible. What's the missing word?

Answer: rod

 The correct quote, "He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" is from Proverbs 13:24 (KJV).
Source: Author sally0malley

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