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  1. Who said: "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it"?
  2. Can you translate the quote attributed to Julius Caesar: "Veni, vidi, vici"?
  3. Who is quoted as saying: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."?
  4. Roosevelt famously described what event as "a date which will live in infamy"?
  5. Who wrote: "’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"?
  6. Translate the phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."
  7. Who said: "Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always."?
  8. Said by a queen in a lethal love triangle, which proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride by the English playwright William Congreve?
  9. Which famous politician is attributed with saying: "You can fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."?
  10. Who made the famous quote: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."?
  11. Who said: "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."?
  12. Who described the moonscape as a scene of "magnificent desolation"?
  13. Which queen said: "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king"?
  14. Who made the speech: "Ich bin ein Berliner"?
  15. Who said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."?


Answers



  1. Winston Churchill
  2. I came; I saw; I conquered.
  3. Napoleon Bonaparte
  4. Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
  5. Alfred Lord Tennyson
  6. "Let them eat cake"
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Charles Darwin
  11. Nelson Mandela
  12. Buzz Aldrin
  13. Elizabeth I
  14. President John F. Kennedy
  15. Albert Einstein