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My Favorite Quotes Trivia Quiz

This is my first quiz. Hope you enjoy. I will give you a quote and you simply tell me who said it.

A multiple-choice quiz by rockclimber. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
rockclimber

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
213,696

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
466

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "If it is a sin to covet honor, then I am the most offending soul alive." Hint

Teddy Roosevelt

Henry V

Douglas MacArthur

Lord Westmorland

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Courage is not the lack of fear; it is acting in spite of it." Hint

George Washington

Mark Twain

Andrew Jackson

Theodore Roosevelt

3. The Latin is a little blunt, but from what famous battle does this quote come? "Our army is great", a Persian says, "and because of the number of our arrows you all will not see the sky!" Then a Spartan responds: "Therefore we shall fight them in the shade!" Hint

Second Punic War

Thermopylae

The Trojan War

Salamus

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go. It is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Hint

Mark Twain

Alice MacKenzie Swaim

C.S Lewis

Winston Churchill

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." [sic] Hint

Robert Green Ingersoll

Theodore Roosevelt

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arthur Koestler

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." Hint

Mark Twain

Theodore Roosevelt

Douglas MacArthur

George Patton

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." Hint

Theodore Roosevelt

Adolf Hitler

J.R.R. Tolkien

G.K. Chesterton

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues; but the form of every virtue at the testing point." Hint

Arthur Koestler

C.S. Lewis

Benjamin Franklin

Hamilton Fish

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Question 9 of 10

9. "[the man of courage] who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Hint

George Bush

Horatius Cocles

Ike D. Eisenhower

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 10 of 10

10. "...Gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their man hoods cheap whilst any speaks that fought with us..." Hint

Edward Longshanks

Henry V

Robert Bruce

Lord Bedford

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "If it is a sin to covet honor, then I am the most offending soul alive."

Answer: Henry V

This is my second favorite quote. King Henry gave it to rally his men on the battle field of Agincourt in 1415. This is only one line from the much larger speech. The English were outnumbered four to one, and yet were still triumphant.

2. "Courage is not the lack of fear; it is acting in spite of it."

Answer: Mark Twain

Some, such as C.S. Lewis and many others, believe fearlessness and courage to be antonyms.

Answer: Thermopylae

This was actually considered to be a joke in their time, but that is the epitome of courage. The Spartans were outnumbered roughly 20 to one.

4. "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go. It is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."

Answer: Alice MacKenzie Swaim

I love this quote. It is one of the best metaphors of courage I have ever come across.

5. "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." [sic]

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

TR is one of my greatest heroes. You can probably tell from the amount of his quotes that appear on this quiz.

6. "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

This was somewhat a belief of the ancient Romans. They believed that to be remembered was the only form of afterlife, thus the story of the great Achilles and others.

7. "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

Answer: G.K. Chesterton

A prolific author, perhaps he is best remembered for his 'Father Brown' mysteries.

8. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues; but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

Answer: C.S. Lewis

Yet another great quote from one of the Inklings. The Inklings were a group of authors in England that would meet in a pub named "The Eagle and the Child" J.R.R. Tolkien was also one of these men.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, of 1910
'The Man In The Arena' is a famous speech by Teddy Roosevelt.
The words of this great exhortation have gone around the world.
They were inscribed on the headstone of the legendary prospector
Harold Lasseter, Alice Springs Cemetary, Central Australia.

10. "...Gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their man hoods cheap whilst any speaks that fought with us..."

Answer: Henry V

These are the last lines from Henry V's speech at Agincourt.

Source: Author rockclimber

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