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Very Easy Famous Quotes Trivia Questions

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1.) Who is famous for declaring, “I have a dream”?

  • Barack Obama
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela

2.) Who is known for the quote, "I have a dream"?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela

3.) Who famously declared, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?

  • Buzz Aldrin
  • John Glenn
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Yuri Gagarin

4.) Who wrote, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"?

  • Confucius
  • Lao Tzu
  • Siddhartha Gautama
  • Sun Tzu

5.) Who stated, "To infinity and beyond"?

  • Buzz Lightyear
  • Lightning McQueen
  • Mr. Incredible
  • Woody

6.) Which scientist said 'E=mc²'?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Isaac Newton
  • Nikola Tesla

7.) Who said 'I have a dream'?

  • Barack Obama
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Rosa Parks

8.) Who is famous for saying 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'?

  • Buzz Aldrin
  • John Glenn
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Yuri Gagarin

9.) According to the Bible, who said 'Let there be light'?

  • Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Thomas Edison

Easy Famous Quotes Trivia Questions

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10.) Who is famous for saying 'I have a dream'?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela

11.) Which scientist famously said 'Eureka!' after discovering the principle of buoyancy?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Archimedes
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Isaac Newton

12.) Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Winston Churchill

13.) Which character in Shakespeare's play Hamlet says 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?

  • Hamlet
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Othello

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

  • Cesar Chavez
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Rosa Parks

15.) Which famous writer said 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'?

  • Aldous Huxley
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • George Orwell
  • J.D. Salinger

16.) Which physicist famously stated that 'Imagination is more important than knowledge'?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Isaac Newton
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Stephen Hawking

17.) Who said 'That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind'?

  • Buzz Aldrin
  • John Glenn
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Yuri Gagarin

18.) Who declared 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall'?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan

19.) Who famously said 'That's hot'?

  • Britney Spears
  • Kim Kardashian
  • Nicole Richie
  • Paris Hilton

20.) Who is famous for saying 'I think, therefore I am'?

  • Immanuel Kant
  • Plato
  • René Descartes
  • Socrates

21.) Who famously said 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee'?

  • Joe Frazier
  • Mike Tyson
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Rocky Marciano

22.) Who famously stated 'Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans'?

  • Bob Dylan
  • Elton John
  • John Lennon
  • Paul McCartney

23.) Which historical figure declared 'I came, I saw, I conquered'?

  • Alexander the Great
  • Genghis Khan
  • Julius Caesar
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

24.) Who famously said, "I have a dream" during a civil rights speech in 1963?

  • Malcolm X
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Rosa Parks

25.) Which U.S. president is known for saying, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Theodore Roosevelt

26.) Who is credited with the quote, "To be, or not to be: that is the question"?

  • Charles Dickens
  • George Orwell
  • Mark Twain
  • William Shakespeare

27.) Which scientist is known for the quote, "E = mc²"?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Isaac Newton
  • Marie Curie
  • Niels Bohr

28.) Who is known for the phrase, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?

  • Buzz Aldrin
  • John Glenn
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Yuri Gagarin

29.) Who is known for saying, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"?

  • Bruce Lee
  • Jack Dempsey
  • Mike Tyson
  • Muhammad Ali

30.) Who said, "I think, therefore I am"?

  • Aristotle
  • Plato
  • René Descartes
  • Socrates

31.) Who famously said, "The pen is mightier than the sword"?

  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Victor Hugo
  • William Shakespeare

32.) Who said, "I came, I saw, I conquered"?

  • Alexander the Great
  • Genghis Khan
  • Julius Caesar
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

33.) Who said, "The only way to do great work is to love what you do"?

  • Bill Gates
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Richard Branson
  • Steve Jobs

34.) Who is known for the saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living"?

  • Aristotle
  • Plato
  • Pythagoras
  • Socrates

Medium Famous Quotes Trivia Questions

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35.) Which political leader reportedly referred to themselves as the 'Mozart of politics'?

  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Winston Churchill

36.) Which artist is known for the phrase 'Every child is an artist'?

  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Salvador Dalí
  • Vincent van Gogh

37.) Who is credited with saying 'Give me liberty, or give me death'?

  • Benjamin Franklin
  • George Washington
  • Patrick Henry
  • Thomas Jefferson

38.) Who said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'?

  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Mark Twain
  • Oscar Wilde
  • William Shakespeare

39.) Which historical figure is known for saying 'I am the state'?

  • Charlemagne
  • Julius Caesar
  • Louis XIV
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

40.) In which play by Shakespeare does the line 'Et tu, Brute?' appear?

  • Hamlet
  • Julius Caesar
  • Macbeth
  • Romeo and Juliet

41.) Which leader proclaimed 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman'?

  • Bill Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan

42.) Which writer once said 'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it'?

  • Charles Dickens
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Mark Twain
  • Oscar Wilde

43.) Although the phrase 'Elementary, my dear Watson' is commonly associated with the character, who actually never said it in any of the original stories?

  • Hercule Poirot
  • Inspector Clouseau
  • Miss Marple
  • Sherlock Holmes

44.) What leader said 'I am not a crook'?

  • George H.W. Bush
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon

45.) Which character in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" says the line 'The lady doth protest too much, methinks'?

  • Hamlet
  • Ophelia
  • Polonius
  • Queen Gertrude

46.) Which British Prime Minister declared "We shall fight on the beaches" during WWII?

  • Clement Attlee
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Winston Churchill

47.) Who stated, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" in a speech urging American independence?

  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • Patrick Henry
  • Thomas Jefferson

48.) Which historical figure is often incorrectly attributed with the phrase, "Let them eat cake"?

  • Catherine de Medici
  • Louis XIV
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

49.) What American author said, "The secret of getting ahead is getting started"?

  • Ernest Hemingway
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • John Steinbeck
  • Mark Twain

50.) Which famous physicist said, "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better"?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Isaac Newton
  • Richard Feynman
  • Stephen Hawking

51.) Who famously declared, "I am the state"?

  • Charlemagne
  • Louis XIV
  • Louis XVI
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

52.) Who is often attributed with the quote, "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind," although not definitively confirmed?

  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Mother Teresa
  • Nelson Mandela

53.) Who asserted that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"?

  • George Orwell
  • Lord Acton
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Thomas Hobbes

54.) Which actress famously said, "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure..."?

  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Judy Garland
  • Marilyn Monroe

55.) Who is remembered for the quote, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"?

  • Andy Warhol
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Salvador Dalí

56.) Who is attributed with the saying, "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Winston Churchill

57.) What famous author wrote, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"?

  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Jane Austen
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Virginia Woolf

58.) Who famously said, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Theodore Roosevelt

59.) Who is often mistakenly attributed with saying, "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe"?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Mark Twain
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Sigmund Freud

Hard Famous Quotes Trivia Questions

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60.) Who is attributed with the saying, 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'?

  • Lord Acton
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Thomas Jefferson

61.) Which American founding father said, 'Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto'?

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • James Madison
  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson

62.) Who observed, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice'?

  • Barack Obama
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela

63.) Which Enlightenment thinker is known for saying, 'Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains'?

  • David Hume
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • John Locke
  • Voltaire

64.) Whose philosophical concept is summarized by the phrase 'To be is to do'?

  • David Hume
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Søren Kierkegaard

65.) Which philosopher characterized life as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'?

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • John Locke
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Thomas Hobbes

66.) Who wrote the line 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so'?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Martin Luther
  • Sigmund Freud
  • William Shakespeare

67.) Which existentialist philosopher said, 'Existence precedes essence'?

  • Albert Camus
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Karl Jaspers

68.) Whose existential philosophy contains the phrase, 'Hell is other people'?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Simone de Beauvoir

69.) Which philosopher is associated with the statement, 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce'?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hegel
  • Karl Marx
  • Walter Benjamin

70.) Which thinker is known for the quote, 'Eternal recurrence'?

  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Carl Gustav Jung
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Søren Kierkegaard

71.) Which philosopher is known for the quote, 'God is dead.'?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Karl Marx
  • Søren Kierkegaard

72.) Which philosopher wrote the line 'Hell is other people' in a play?

  • Albert Camus
  • Jean Genet
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Simone de Beauvoir

73.) Who famously articulated, 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'?

  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Carl Jung
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sigmund Freud

74.) Which philosopher is often associated with the quote 'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing'?

  • Aristotle
  • Plato
  • Pythagoras
  • Socrates

75.) Who is often mistakenly credited with the quote, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'?

  • Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Montesquieu
  • Voltaire

76.) Who surmised, "I am thinking, therefore I exist," in their 1637 publication?

  • Baruch Spinoza
  • David Hume
  • Immanuel Kant
  • René Descartes

77.) Who wrote "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him" in "The Gay Science"?

  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Martin Heidegger

78.) Who is the philosopher known for the phrase "To be is to be perceived"?

  • David Hume
  • George Berkeley
  • Immanuel Kant
  • John Locke

79.) Which 20th-century author wrote "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past"?

  • Aldous Huxley
  • George Orwell
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Ray Bradbury

80.) Who articulated the idea that "In the long run we are all dead" in response to criticisms of short-term economic policies?

  • Adam Smith
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Milton Friedman

81.) Which philosopher is known for the idea that liberty involves pursuing one's desires, as part of his broader work on individual freedom?

  • David Hume
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Thomas Hobbes

82.) Which existential thinker asserted, "Existence precedes essence" as a foundation of their philosophy?

  • Albert Camus
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Søren Kierkegaard

83.) Which political theorist wrote, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton?

  • Edmund Burke
  • Lord Acton
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Thomas Hobbes

84.) Which figure claimed, "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path" in their spiritual teachings?

  • Confucius
  • Gautama Buddha
  • Laozi
  • Søren Kierkegaard

Very Hard Famous Quotes Trivia Questions

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85.) Which Russian author stated, 'If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself'?

  • Anton Chekhov
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Vladimir Nabokov

86.) Who famously declared, 'In the beginning was the deed'?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Karl Marx
  • Martin Luther

87.) Which writer famously pondered, 'What is happiness but the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads'?

  • Albert Camus
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Franz Kafka
  • George Orwell

88.) Who famously declared, 'I rebel – therefore we exist'?

  • Albert Camus
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Simone de Beauvoir

89.) Who philosophized, 'The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk'?

  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hegel
  • Immanuel Kant

90.) Who remarked, 'Man is condemned to be free'?

  • Albert Camus
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Søren Kierkegaard

91.) In which work does Karl Marx state, "Religion is the opium of the people"?

  • A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
  • Das Kapital
  • The Communist Manifesto
  • The Poverty of Philosophy

92.) Which writer declared, "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion"?

  • Albert Camus
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Michel Foucault
  • Simone de Beauvoir

93.) Which philosophical text includes the statement, "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
  • Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
  • William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

94.) Which author is attributed with the words "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides"?

  • David Viscott
  • Leo Buscaglia
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Victor Hugo

95.) Who remarked, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," often misattributed to Voltaire?

  • Edward Gibbon
  • Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Montesquieu

96.) Who critically observed, "The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants"?

  • Albert Camus
  • George Orwell
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Voltaire

97.) Which writer said, "The only real prisons are fear and desire"?

  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Victor Hugo

98.) Who wrote, "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us"?

  • Alice Walker
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Toni Morrison
  • Virginia Satir

100.) Who wrote, "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us"?

  • Alice Walker
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Toni Morrison
  • Virginia Satir

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