Trivia Quiz: Historical Quotes

Do you know the person behind the following quotes?


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Question 1: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

 A: Franklin D. Roosevelt
 B: Woodrow Wilson
 C: Theodore Roosevelt
 D: Abraham Lincoln

Question 2: "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

 A: Ansel Adams
 B: Carl Sagan
 C: Darwin
 D: Dalai Lama

Question 3: "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

 A: L. Ron Hubbard
 B: Ernest Hemingway
 C: Mark Twain
 D: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 4: "Half this game is 90 percent mental."

 A: Babe Ruth
 B: John Wooden
 C: Yogi Berra
 D: Michael Jordan

Question 5: "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

 A: Oscar Wilde
 B: Walt Disney
 C: Charles Dickens
 D: Herman Melville

Question 6: "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

 A: Thomas Edison
 B: Albert Einstein
 C: Socrates
 D: Sir Francis Bacon

Question 7: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

 A: Buddha
 B: Voltaire
 C: Socrates
 D: Confucius

Question 8: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

 A: George Washington
 B: Benjamin Franklin
 C: Thomas Jefferson
 D: Abraham Lincoln

Question 9: "You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

 A: Henry Ford
 B: J.D. Rockefeller
 C: William Vanderbilt
 D: J.P. Morgan

Question 10: "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

 A: Edgar Allen Poe
 B: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 C: Robert Frost
 D: Henry David Thoreau