10 Famous Quotes Questions | Who Said It? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi was an Indian civil rights activist who used the idea of civil disobedience to work toward equality for native Indians during a time when the English ruled India. His real name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, but Mahatma means 'high souled' in Sanskrit, which is an ancient language that many Hindu texts are written in.

Answer: Ethics

Friedrich Nietzsche was a pessimistic philosopher. He was German and very opposed to antisemitism - the hatred and oppression of Jewish people, and he was opposed to nationalism. However, after he died, his sister edited his unpublished manuscripts in such a way that they could be used to encourage Nazi ideology, undermining his ideas completely.

Answer: Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who spent nearly twenty years at the Academy in Athens. His works span a wide range of subject from the sciences to poetics. He tutored Alexander the Great, which gave him many opportunities to study natural and physical science.

Answer: Mark Twain

Mark Twain is a pen name for Missouri born Samuel Clemens, the American author who wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". He is widely considered "the greatest American humorist of his age".

Answer: History

Maya Angelou was an African American civil rights activist and writer who put a lot of emphasis on language. She won a Grammy, and the Presidential Medal of Honor as well as numerous other awards before passing away in 2014.

Answer: Bad government

Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and later became the third president. Fewer know that he had six children, but four died before reaching adulthood.

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

This is one of Benjamin Franklin's best known quotes and is taken from a letter he wrote at age 83 to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789. The saying was included in his collected works, published in 1817. Interestingly, Daniel Defoe said something comparable earlier in 18th century.

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is widely regarded as an exemplary Renaissance man, due to his work in the fields of arts, science, and music as well as many others. He has been credited with the first blue-prints for a flying machine, and is known for his work in anatomy.

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt was the American president during the Great Depression who enacted the New Deal and guided America during the Second World War. He was the only US president elected four times. After his death the US Constitution was amended to make this impossible in the future.

Answer: Josef Stalin

Stalin was a member of the Bolsheviks, who overthrew the Russian government. He was a relatively low ranking member for many years and was not as close to Lenin as he claimed to be. When appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922, it was assumed that he had been appointed to an essentially bureaucratic post, but he transformed the function in the key post and by 1927-28 at the latest he was the undisputed dictator of the Soviet Union.