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Familiar Quotations? Men Trivia Quiz

I will give you the quotation, you identify who said it. The quotations are checked on Bartleby with Bartletts and Columbia the Penguin and Oxford Dictionaries of Quotations are also used.

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

Author
mnbates

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
123,518

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
822

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." Hint

George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Dorothy Parker

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools." Hint

John Webster

William Shakespeare

George Chapman

Christopher Marlowe

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Question 3 of 10

3. "If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each" Hint

Coco Chanel

Joan Rivers

Diana, Princess of Wales

Cher

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Remember all men would be tyrants if they could." Hint

Abigail Adams

Emily Bronte

George Eliot

Jane Austen

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Question 5 of 10

5. "The more I see of men, the more I like dogs." Hint

Madame Dubarry

Francoise Sagan

Colette

Madame Roland

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Men and women, women and men. It will never work." Hint

Gloria Steinhem

Erica Jong

Betty Friedan

Germaine Greer

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted." Hint

Rene Descartes

Moliere

Voltaire

Blaise Pascal

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Men are but children of a larger growth." Hint

John Dryden

John Donne

William Shakespeare

Edmund Burke

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Question 9 of 10

9. "In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press." Hint

George Bernard Shaw

Oscar Wilde

Ogden Nash

James Thurber

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Question 10 of 10

10. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god." Hint

John Milton

Andrew Marvell

William Shakespeare

John Dryden

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

Answer: Mark Twain

From 'Following the Equator' Ch 27 Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar,
possibly the greatest American humourous novelist, Parker being more of a poet/journalist and gadfly; Shaw and Wilde are - possibly - the best English humourists.

2. "Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

Answer: George Chapman

From "All Fools" act V scene 1; Chapman (c.1559-1634) was a playwright, poet, writer etc. he collaborated with Ben Jonson, and
worked on some unfinished Marlowe. Webster (c.1580-c.1635) was a playwright who introduced blood (vast amounts of it) into Jacobean theatre.

3. "If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each"

Answer: Diana, Princess of Wales

From 'The Observer' 29.7.1984 'Sayings of the week' Some seemed to consider her a 'dumb blonde' but she could be sharp when she wished. Coco Chanel designed the first 'little black number'.

4. "Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

Answer: Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams(US President) 31.3.1776 both the wife and mother (John Quincy Adams) of US Presidents and a prominent and gifted letter writer.

5. "The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."

Answer: Madame Roland

Jean-Marie Philipson French revolutionary, a Girondist guillotined in 1793 attributed in 'Notes and Queries', 5.9.1908.

6. "Men and women, women and men. It will never work."

Answer: Erica Jong

In 'Fear of Flying' (1974).

7. "Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."

Answer: Blaise Pascal

From Pensees no. 275 (Thoughts, 1670). He was noted as a mathematician.

8. "Men are but children of a larger growth."

Answer: John Dryden

From 'All for Love' Act 4 Scene 1 (1678), Bowie may have thought of this when he wrote 'They're just taller children - that's all.' In
his song 'After All' from 'The Man Who Sold the World' as he seems to be one of the most widely read lyricists.

9. "In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press."

Answer: Oscar Wilde

From 'The Fornightly Review' February 1891. That nebulous organ called 'The Press' is frequently (quite rightly) criticised for its trivialities and invasions of privacy they seem to have forgotten the sage words of Steve Wilson of 'Big Town'. 'Freedom of the press is a flaming sword, use it justly, hold it high, guard it well'.

10. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."

Answer: William Shakespeare

From 'Hamlet' Act 2 Scene 2 line 304 (1601), Hamlet himself adds, tellingly, "And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

Source: Author mnbates

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