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Cynical Quotes [1] Trivia Quiz

All the following quotes are by angry, young or not so young, men or women. No warm and cuddly types here. I'll give you the quote. Tell me who said it.

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

Author
dinkytown

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
88,572

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
926

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "God is dead and we have killed him." Hint

Charles Darwin

Friedrich Nietzsche

Robert Ingersoll

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage." Hint

Woody Allen

Ambrose Bierce

Mark Twain

Dorothy Parker

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Question 3 of 10

3. "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends." Hint

Woody Allen

Emo Philips

Fred Allen

Fran Leibowitz

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Question 4 of 10

4. After seeing Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon together, he said, "Look, see no evil, hear no evil, and evil." Hint

Bob Dole

Tip O'Neil

Barry Goldwater

Dick Tuck

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Question 5 of 10

5. "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." Hint

Winston Churchill

Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw

Bertrand Russell

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." Hint

David Letterman

Lily Tomlin

Bob Barker

Jack Benny

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Some mornings it doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." Hint

Sylvia Plath

Dorothy Parker

Tennessee Williams

Emo Philips

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Question 8 of 10

8. "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." Hint

Oscar Wilde

Samuel Johnson

Anthony Trollope

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Question 9 of 10

9. "When I hear a man is religious, I conclude that he is a rascal, although I have known some instances of very good men being religious." Hint

James Boswell

David Hume

David Garrick

George Bernard Shaw

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Question 10 of 10

10. "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Hint

Oscar Wilde

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

David Garrick

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "God is dead and we have killed him."

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

Quoting Nietzsche is my favorite method of encouraging religious zealots to leave me alone.

2. "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

Answer: Ambrose Bierce

See Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary for more malicious misanthropy.

3. "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends."

Answer: Woody Allen

God doesn't work on Sundays.
Plumbers don't work on Sundays.
Therefore God is a plumber.

4. After seeing Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon together, he said, "Look, see no evil, hear no evil, and evil."

Answer: Bob Dole

Guess who was evil. Yes, I knew that you would know.

5. "England and America are two countries divided by a common language."

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Wilde, Russell and Churchill all made similar comments, but Shaw is credited with this particular version, although some authorities doubt that Shaw ever made the comment. Who knows? As Yogi Berra once supposedly said, "I never said a lot of those things I said."

6. "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."

Answer: Lily Tomlin

The Chinese philosopher, Chuang-Tzu, said that he once dreamed he was a butterfly. After the dream, he could never be sure whether he was a man who sometimes dreamed that he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who sometimes dreamed that he was a man.

7. "Some mornings it doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."

Answer: Emo Philips

I can relate.

8. "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

Answer: Samuel Johnson

Dr. Johnson knew that nothing worthwhile is accomplished without effort. That's why he also said that no one but a blockhead ever wrote for any reason but money.

9. "When I hear a man is religious, I conclude that he is a rascal, although I have known some instances of very good men being religious."

Answer: David Hume

Somehow I don't think that David Hume is George W.'s second favorite philosopher.

10. "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Swift considered himself to be persecuted and unappreciated. Some think that Swift was mad, but as Henry Kissinger once said of his old boss, Richard Nixon, "Even paranoids have real enemies."

Source: Author dinkytown

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