Quotes: An Endless Bridge of Wisdom Quiz

Answer: Robert Edward Lee

The well-known Confederate general, Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), was a strong believer in moral values like duty, self-sacrifice, Christianity, respect for other people, kindness, loyalty and honesty.

Answer: Confucius

Confucius (551-479 B.C.) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, social relationships and sincerity.

Answer: Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, a.k.a. Lenin

Vladimir Ilych Lenin (1854 Sibyrsk, Russia - 1924, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian communist, revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He led the Bolshevik October revolution in 1917 that overthrew the Provisional Government and established the first Communist countrry in the world, the Soviet Union.

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He led his nation through its greatest constitutional, moral, military and political crisis - the American Civil War, preserving the Union, abolishing slavery and modernizing the economy.

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a French military and political leader. As a military leader, he conquered the most of Europe except Britain and Russia. In the political sphere, he introduced the Napoleonic Code, one of the finest law systems and proclaimed himself Emperor of France in 1804.

Answer: H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, journalist, biologist, zoologist, teacher, historian and human rights activist. He was the father of the "Time Machine" idea. He is considered the successor of Charles Dickens, because of his creativity and his way of writing, of Jules Verne, because of his science fiction novels and pioneering ideas and of Leonardo da Vinci because he was a 'homo universalis'.

Answer: Patrick Cleburne

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (1828-1864) was a physician, a corporal in the British Army and a Major Gerneral in the Confederate States of America Army during the War of Secession. He fought bravely at Shiloh, Stnes River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Franklin, where he made the remark moments before his death.

Answer: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) was an American soldier, a Senator from Mississippi and finally, the sole President of the CSA (Confederate States of America) during its War for Independence, a.k.a. American Civil War.

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was the leader of Indian nationalism in the former British India. He employed passive resistance and other nonviolent actions to achieve his goal. He succeeded, but was subsequently murdered by a fanatic Hinduist who thought Gandhi was sympathetic to the Muslims.

Answer: Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha, also known as Shiddhartha Gautama (circa 563-483 BCE) was an Indian philosopher who taught a 'Middle Way' between the sensual indulgence and severe asceticism found in many regions of India, like Magada and Kosala.

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, philosopher and also short story writer. His most notable works are: "Crime and Punishment", "The Gambler", "The Idiot", "Demons", "Notes from Underground", "The House of the Dead" and "The Brothers Karamazov".

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an Englishman born in India, a short story writer, poet and novelist. His most notable works are: "The Jungle Book", "Kim", "The Man Who Would Be King", "The White Man's Burden" and "If-". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.

Answer: Marie Curie

Marie Sklodowska-Curie was a French-Polish chemist, well known as a pioneer in researching radioactivity. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, the first female professor at the Sorbonne and the first woman to be buried (for her own merit) in Pantheon of Paris.

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was an English writer, university professor, philologist and poet. He is famous for writing "The Lord of The Rings", "Hobbit" and "The Silmarillion".

Answer: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born physicist who developed the General Theory of Relativity, which is, along with quantum mechanics, the pillar of classic and modern physics. He is also famous for his mass-energy equivalence E = mc2.