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Quiz about Famous Quotations From Famous People

Famous Quotations From Famous People Quiz

When top people say something witty , smart or simply unusual we tend to remember.- Just try and see if you remember who these quotes are from. Four options every time.

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

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
53,150

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
2137

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'We have become a grandmother' Whose quote when her daughter-in-law gave birth to a son? Hint

Queen Elisabeth II

Margaret Thatcher

Brigitte Bardot

Marlene Dietrich

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, as long as they do what I say' ? Hint

Margaret Thatcher

Francois Mitterand

Charles de Gaulle

Helmut Kohl

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who said all of this: a. 'When I am good , I am very very good , but when I am bad I am even better.' b.'It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked' ? Hint

Mae West

Marilyn Monroe

Liz Taylor

Julia Roberts

4. Who started from a pacific quote like this 'No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation' and moved his views to a much more belligerent ' The right is more precious than the peace'? Hint

F.D.Roosevelt

George Bush sr

Ronald Reagan

Woodrow Wilson

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who expressed his awe for women in this succinct way:'The female of the species is more deadly than the male' ? Hint

the Prophet Mohammed

George Bernard Shaw

Rudyard Kipling

Charles Darwin

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which woman author said: 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'? Hint

Fay Weldon

Erica Jong

Virginia Woolf

Doris Lessing

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who invented the catchphrase: 'All for one,and one for all'? Hint

Field Marshall Montgomery

Oliver Cromwell

Alexander Dumas

Abraham Lincoln

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which American author made this statement: 'All modern American literature comes from ONE book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.' ? Hint

Henry James

J. D. Salinger

John Steinbeck

Ernest Hemingway

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who created an abbey in which the only rule was :'Do what you like'? Hint

Thomas Merton

St Bernard of Clairvaux

Rabelais

Petrus Abelardus

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who first said : 'No one can kill Americans and brag about it. No one.' ? Hint

Franklin D. Roosevelt

George Bush sr

Ronald Reagan

George Bush jr

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'We have become a grandmother' Whose quote when her daughter-in-law gave birth to a son?

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Some kind of 'Royal Plural'.

2. 'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, as long as they do what I say' ?

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Same lady , same spirit.

3. Who said all of this: a. 'When I am good , I am very very good , but when I am bad I am even better.' b.'It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked' ?

Answer: Mae West

In the early 1940s the RAF named an inflatable life jacket after this celebrity. Equally famous is her remark 'It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men. '

Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Or how U.S.A. 's policies developed from 1915 to 1917. - Other quotation from same source :'Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.'

5. Who expressed his awe for women in this succinct way:'The female of the species is more deadly than the male' ?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Kipling 's 'respect' for women can also be seen from another example: 'Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man'. Yet he added : 'It takes a VERY clever woman , to manage a fool.'

6. Which woman author said: 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'?

Answer: Virginia Woolf

7. Who invented the catchphrase: 'All for one,and one for all'?

Answer: Alexander Dumas

Alexander Dumas senior is the author of 'The Three Musketeers'.

8. Which American author made this statement: 'All modern American literature comes from ONE book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.' ?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

9. Who created an abbey in which the only rule was :'Do what you like'?

Answer: Rabelais

The Abbey of Theleme had as its ground rule: Fay Ce Que Vouldras.-Do What You Like.

10. Who first said : 'No one can kill Americans and brag about it. No one.' ?

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Quoted by the Observer as 'Saying of the week' , 27 April 1986.

Source: Author flem-ish

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