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Simply (But Not Simple) Quotes Quiz

Well, it ain't easy, but why won't you try it ?

A multiple-choice quiz by D@N. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
D@N

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
85,988

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
870

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who said: "It is not length of life, but depth of life"? Hint

Harvey Fierstein

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mahatma Gandhi

Robert Frost

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who said: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"? Hint

Abraham Lincoln

Sidney Poitier

Benjamin Disraeli

Erich Segal

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who said: "Today, I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. I am warning you all, DO NOT let the olive branch fall!"? Hint

Saddam Hussein

Osama Bin Laden

Adolf Hitler

Yasser Arafat

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who said: "Give peace a chance"? Hint

Irena Dluhi

Charlie Brown

John Lennon

Dan Cooper

5. Name writer of the book with this quote:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain".

Answer: (Two words or just surname)

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Question 6 of 10

6. A very easy quote question this time:
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.".
Who said that?
Hint

Sir Winston Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Richard Milhous Nixon

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Question 7 of 10

7. From which play is this quote?
"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people."
Hint

Hair

The Pit

Roots

Blood on the Mountain

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which trial was opened with these words? "I do not stand alone. Millions of prosecutors are here with me. But they cannot stand up, and they cannot raise an accusing finger at the glass cell and call out: I accuse!". Hint

The Nuremberg trials

General Franco's trial

Slovodan Milosevic's trial in The Hague

The Eichmann trial

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who said: "How can you compare the crime of bank robbery, to that of the bank's founding"?! Hint

Woody Allen

Ephraim Kishon

Bertolt Brecht

Josef Conard

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which biblical character is associated with saying this: "Saul and Jonathan, the lovely and the pleasant in their lives, even in their death they were not divided"? Hint

King Solomon

The quote is not attributed to anyone.

Samuel

King David

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who said: "It is not length of life, but depth of life"?

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. Who said: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

3. Who said: "Today, I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. I am warning you all, DO NOT let the olive branch fall!"?

Answer: Yasser Arafat

This quote is taken from a speech Arafat made to the U.N. General Assembly in November 13, 1974. He was invited only two years after the bloody attack by Black September against the Israeli delegation at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

4. Who said: "Give peace a chance"?

Answer: John Lennon

5. Name writer of the book with this quote: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain".

Answer: Frank Herbert

"Dune" was written in 1966, and became a smash hit. It was followed by a series of six other books, and a movie in the 80s.

6. A very easy quote question this time: "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.". Who said that?

Answer: Sir Winston Churchill

The speech, which became one of the most known speeches in human history, was a part of a report Churchill gave to the British parliament after the "Dynamo" operation (evacuation of 350,000 British and French soldiers who were exposed to German attacks on the Dunkirk beach in northern France in 1940).

7. From which play is this quote? "The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people."

Answer: Hair

"Hair", of course, is a musical from the days of the "Vietnam war" and discusses the protest against it.

Answer: The Eichmann trial

On 23.5.1960 Adolf Eichmann was captured by Mossad in Buenos Aires. In the following year began a long trial began in Jerusalem, which was opened with these words by Gideon Hausner, the head of the prosecution team. In attempt to prevent possible assassination against the Nazi criminal, he was placed in a special bullet proofed glass cell.

At the end of the trial, Eichmann was sentenced to death and hanged.

9. Who said: "How can you compare the crime of bank robbery, to that of the bank's founding"?!

Answer: Bertolt Brecht

From the writer of "The Threepenny Opera", "The Measure Taken", "Galileo", "Mother Courage and Her Children", and "Baal".

10. Which biblical character is associated with saying this: "Saul and Jonathan, the lovely and the pleasant in their lives, even in their death they were not divided"?

Answer: King David

Samuel 2, 1:23. The text is also known as 'David's Lament'.

Source: Author D@N

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