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Potent Quotables Trivia Quiz

I never realized there were so many quotes with the word 'potent' in them. Use the clues to figure out who said what.

A multiple-choice quiz by Skelletona. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Skelletona

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
377,815

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
438

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. What anti-apartheid activist said, "The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."? Hint

Bono

Che Guevara

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Steve Biko

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Question 2 of 10

2. What deaf and blind author and lecturer said, "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."? Hint

Ray Charles

Marlee Matlin

Louis Braille

Helen Keller

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Question 3 of 10

3. What Indian leader said: "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."? Hint

Sachin Tendulkar

Ravi Shankar

Mahatma Gandhi

Deepak Chopra

4. What Scottish songstress said: "The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness."?
Hint

Tina Turner

Annie Lennox

Adele

Sarah McLachlan

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Question 5 of 10

5. What Watergate felon said "I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!"? Hint

Timothy Leary

Jimmy Carter

John Diehl

G. Gordon Liddy

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Question 6 of 10

6. What English writer, actor, and Renaissance man said, "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."? Hint

David Hughes

Cliff Richard

Noel Coward

Gary Barlow

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Question 7 of 10

7. What civil rights leader said, "Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of non-violent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity."?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks

Malcom X

Ralph Abernathy

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Question 8 of 10

8. What seafaring author said "There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."? Hint

Herman Melville

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

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Question 9 of 10

9. What Russian composer said "In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"? Hint

Erik Satie

Hector Berlioz

Igor Stravinsky

Sergei Prokofiev

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Question 10 of 10

10. If you get this one correct you'll get an A (a red one)! What author said, "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." Hint

Ernest Hemingway

Danielle Steele

Mary Shelley

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What anti-apartheid activist said, "The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."?

Answer: Steve Biko

South African Stephen Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement and was a very active anti-apartheid campaigner. He died in police custody in 1977. He was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 1987 film Cry Freedom. Peter Gabriel wrote and recorded the song "Biko", released in 1980.

2. What deaf and blind author and lecturer said, "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."?

Answer: Helen Keller

Helen Keller lived a long and interesting life. Many people don't know that she was a member of the Socialist Party of America and that she helped to found the ACLU. Patty Duke portrayed her in the 1962 film version of "The Miracle Worker."

3. What Indian leader said: "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

I believe Gandhi was one of the most interesting people in history. He was a proponent of non-violent civil disobedience. His actions not only led to the independence of India but inspired people all over the world. Sadly, he was assassinated in 1948 at the age of 78. Ben Kingsley portrayed him in the 1982 Oscar winning film "Gandhi."

Answer: Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox was the beautiful singer for The Eurythmics. She has had a very successful solo career and has done a lot of fundraising and humanitarian work. She is also a gay/lesbian icon.

5. What Watergate felon said "I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!"?

Answer: G. Gordon Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy was one of the conspirators of the Watergate scandal. Timothy Leary and Liddy debated each other on college campuses. Jimmy Carter reduced Liddy's 20 year sentence to 8 years. John Diehl portrayed him in the 1995 film "Nixon."

6. What English writer, actor, and Renaissance man said, "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."?

Answer: Noel Coward

Noel Coward really did it all. He published 50+ plays, composed many songs, acted, directed, painted, wrote poems and books. He died in 1973 and has a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a tireless activist for racial equality in the United States. He cofounded the Southern Leadership Conference, and his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is lauded as one of the best speeches in American history. He made this quote when he visited India in April 1959 and was influenced by Gandhi's methods of nonviolent civil disobedience.

8. What seafaring author said "There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."?

Answer: Herman Melville

Herman Melville wrote many books and poems but will always be remembered best for "Moby Dick". He was friends with fellow novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and dedicated "Moby Dick" to him. Though Melville had a fairly substantial amount of published works, his writing only earned $10,000 during his lifetime; he gained much more popularity after his death.

9. What Russian composer said "In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"?

Answer: Igor Stravinsky

After moving to France, Stravinsky and his family stayed in a mansion owned by Coco Chanel for a while. They became French citizens in 1934, then in 1939 moved to West Hollywood, CA. Igor became a naturalized US citizen in 1945.

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne's surname at birth was Hathorne, but he added a 'w' to distance himself from an ancestor who had been a judge at the Salem Witch Trials. Another interesting tidbit of trivia, his son was notified of his death the same day he had been blindfolded and laid in a coffin as part of a fraternity initiation. Creepy!

Source: Author Skelletona

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