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Who said this ... who said that ... Was it Oscar Wilde ... or an Aristocat?

A multiple-choice quiz by succubus. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
succubus

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
6,277

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
716

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who said 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'? Hint

Richard Dawkins

Charles Darwin

Albert Einstein

Arthur C. Clarke

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who said 'How inappropriate to call it Planet Earth, when it is quite clearly Ocean'? Hint

Arthur C. Clarke

Richard Dawkins

Charles Darwin

Stephen Hawking

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who said 'I have nothing to declare except my genius'? Hint

Mark Twain

Richard Dawkins

Arthur C. Clarke

Oscar Wilde

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who said 'I owe you everything and you ... you owe me nothing'? Hint

Fox Mulder (The X Files)

Kermit The Frog (The Muppet Show)

Thelma (Thelma and Louise)

Captain James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who said 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'? Hint

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King

Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 6 of 10

6. To whom is this saying attributed: "We do not inherit the earth from our parents, we are looking after it for our children"? Hint

Origin is unknown

Australian Aborigines

Eskimos

African tribe

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who said 'Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds'? Hint

Foo Fighters

Filter

Tonic

The Dust Brothers

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who, when sent an invitation to a play, said 'I cannot come. Would it be possible for you to let me have tickets for the second night? - if there is one?' Hint

Neville Chamberlain

Winston Churchill

Oscar Wilde

Noel Coward

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who said 'Someone told me that each equation I put in the book would halve the sales.'? Hint

Stephen Hawking

Charles Darwin

Richard Dawkins

Albert Einstein

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who said 'You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi'? Hint

James Stewart

Cary Grant

Charlton Heston

Humphrey Bogart

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who said 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'?

Answer: Albert Einstein

2. Who said 'How inappropriate to call it Planet Earth, when it is quite clearly Ocean'?

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke

Referring to the fact that the Earth is more than 70 percent water, and less than 30 percent land.

3. Who said 'I have nothing to declare except my genius'?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Good old Oscar quipped this at a custom's official in New York.

4. Who said 'I owe you everything and you ... you owe me nothing'?

Answer: Fox Mulder (The X Files)

Mulder said this to Scully in his corridor in The X-Files Movie.

5. Who said 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'?

Answer: Martin Luther King

6. To whom is this saying attributed: "We do not inherit the earth from our parents, we are looking after it for our children"?

Answer: Origin is unknown

7. Who said 'Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds'?

Answer: Foo Fighters

Lyrics from their song 'Walking After You'.

8. Who, when sent an invitation to a play, said 'I cannot come. Would it be possible for you to let me have tickets for the second night? - if there is one?'

Answer: Winston Churchill

This was George Bernard Shaw's new play, 'St Joan', in 1923. George Bernard Shaw wrote back to Churchill to reply 'Bring a friend - if you have one.'

9. Who said 'Someone told me that each equation I put in the book would halve the sales.'?

Answer: Stephen Hawking

10. Who said 'You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi'?

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Source: Author succubus

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