Quotes

Question 1

She declared “By blood, I am Albanian…as to my calling, I belong to the world.”

Answer 1

Mother Teresa

Question 2

In 1975 she told her party, “We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal.”

Answer 2

Margaret Thatcher

Question 3

She once said that death “Is no more than passing from one room into another” but “in that other room, I shall be able to see.”

Answer 3

Helen Keller

Question 4

In 1934 this humorist said, “Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.”

Answer 4

Will Rogers

Question 5

Karl Marx: “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their” these.

Answer 5

Chains

Question 6

Though it is attributed to him, there is actually no historical evidence that what long-serving monarch actually made the declaration which translates to English as “I am the state”?

Answer 6

Louis XIV

Question 7

In his inscription for his own tomb on the Campus Martius, who wrote, “Those who slew my father I drove into exile…and afterwards when they waged war upon the republic I twice defeated them in battle”?

Answer 7

That’s Augustus (the former Octavian), and the reference is to the murderers of his adoptive father, Julius Caesar..

Question 8

“Houston, [REDACTED] Base here. The Eagle has landed.” What word is redacted from this quote from July 20, 1969, and is also the name of the “Sea” where the lunar module made its landing on that day?

Answer 8

Tranquility

Question 9

In 1776 he wrote, “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet… the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph”

Answer 9

Thomas Paine