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Who said it? Test | Quotes

This quiz involves identifying the person who made a famous statement, or possibly a not so well known statement.

A multiple-choice quiz by YOMD39. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
YOMD39

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
6,899

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
6 / 15

Plays
578

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. Who said, 'To err is human to forgive divine'? Hint

Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr

William Shakespeare

Alexander Pope

John Milton

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who said,'Only clients with money get true legal advice'? Hint

Marsha Clarke

Johnny Cochrane

F. Lee Bailey

Louis Brandeis

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Question 3 of 15

3. Who said 'It ain't over till it's over'?

Answer: (Two Words (first and last names))

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who said, 'Work expands to fill time available'? Hint

Lee Iacocca

Lawrence Peter

C. Northcote Parkinson

Peter Druker

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Question 5 of 15

5. Who said, 'I'd rather be South than President'? Hint

Samuel Stayman

Charles Goren

Ely Culbertson

Oswald Jacoby

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who said, 'Justice, I think is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society'? Hint

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge Learned Hand

Judge Louis Brandeis

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Question 7 of 15

7. Who said. 'In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his Level of Incompetence'? Hint

L, Van Alen

C. Northcote Parkinson

Lawrence Peter

Lee Iacocca

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Question 8 of 15

8. Who said, 'There are two laws, discrete, not reconciled, law for men and law for things'? Hint

Justice Byron R. White

Judge Learned Hand

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge Louis Brandeis

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Question 9 of 15

9. Who said, 'A hungry man is not a free man'? Hint

George McGorvern

Adlai E. Stevenson

Hubert H. Humphrey

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 10 of 15

10. Who said, 'You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold'?

Answer: (Three Words (Full name))

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Question 11 of 15

11. Who said, 'For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with'? Hint

C. Northcote Parkinson

Lee Iacocca

Lawrence Peter

L. Van Alen

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Question 12 of 15

12. Who said, 'Judge not, that you be not judged'? Hint

Jesus, as recorded by St Luke

Daniel

Jesus, as recorded bu St Mark

Jesus, as recorded by St Matthew

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Question 13 of 15

13. Who said, 'They should rule who are able to rule best'? Hint

Aristotle

Plato

Socrates

Hippocrates

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Question 14 of 15

14. Who said, 'Life is short, art is long, timing is exact, experience treacherous, judgement difficult'? Hint

Aristotle

Plato

Socates

Hippocrates

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Question 15 of 15

15. Who said, 'Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carry every word before you let it out'? Hint

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

William Shakespeare

Alexander Pope

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who said, 'To err is human to forgive divine'?

Answer: Alexander Pope

At 4 feet 6 inches he was very short in height but very great as an English poet.

2. Who said,'Only clients with money get true legal advice'?

Answer: F. Lee Bailey

F. Lee Bailey's clients have included some very wealthy people, such as Patty Hearst, Dr. Samuel Shepard and O. J. Simpson.

3. Who said 'It ain't over till it's over'?

Answer: Yogi Berra

In doing this quiz, I've noticed, It gets late early out here.

4. Who said, 'Work expands to fill time available'?

Answer: C. Northcote Parkinson

Another example of Parkinson's Principle is:'Data expands to fill the space available'. My exception to this Principle is: 'My paper money never completely fills my wallet'

5. Who said, 'I'd rather be South than President'?

Answer: Ely Culbertson

For the Bridge Hands published in many newspapers, the 'SOUTH HAND' is usually the declarer and Ely Culbertson played those hands with great skill, usually making the 'unmakeable contracts'.

6. Who said, 'Justice, I think is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society'?

Answer: Judge Learned Hand

One of the greatest Judges in U.S. history, but he was consumed by his own self-doubts and feelings of inadequacy.

7. Who said. 'In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his Level of Incompetence'?

Answer: Lawrence Peter

The 'Peter's Principle' is one of the most often referred to by top management officers.

8. Who said, 'There are two laws, discrete, not reconciled, law for men and law for things'?

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson was a great American essayist and philosopher,

9. Who said, 'A hungry man is not a free man'?

Answer: Adlai E. Stevenson

He was the grandson of the 1893 Vice-President, Adlai E.Stevenson, and he was twice defeated as the democratic candidate for U.S. Presidency.

10. Who said, 'You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold'?

Answer: William Jennings Bryan

This was from a speech he made at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1896.

11. Who said, 'For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with'?

Answer: L. Van Alen

This is the 'Red Queen Principle'. In Lewis Carroll's novel the Red Queen tells {Alice;} 'in this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place'.

12. Who said, 'Judge not, that you be not judged'?

Answer: Jesus, as recorded by St Matthew

From the book of Matthew 7:1

13. Who said, 'They should rule who are able to rule best'?

Answer: Aristotle

From the mouth of a great Greek philosopher.

14. Who said, 'Life is short, art is long, timing is exact, experience treacherous, judgement difficult'?

Answer: Hippocrates

Yes, the Father of Medicine.

15. Who said, 'Speak clearly, if you speak at {all;} carry every word before you let it out'?

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

He was Associate Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Source: Author YOMD39

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