The TIME Centennial News Quiz

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9. "An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind."

a) Desmond Tutu b) Dorothy Day c) Mother Teresa d) Mohandas Gandhi

10. "We are driven to this. We are determined to go on with this agitation. It is our duty to make this world a better place for women."

a) Jane Fonda b) Betty Friedan c) Emmeline Pankhurst d) Estee Lauder

11. "640K [of memory] ought to be enough for anybody."

a) Bill Gates b) Steve Jobs c) Thomas Watson d) HAL

12. "Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."

a) Gloria Steinem b) Sigmund Freud c) Al Gore d) Rachel Carson

13. "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win."

a) Saddam Hussein b) Slobodan Milosevic c) Ho Chi Minh d) Haile Selassie

14. "Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

a) Margaret Sanger b) Franklin D. Roosevelt c) Madonna d) Martin Luther King Jr.

15. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness."

a) Norman Vincent Peale b) Carl Jung c) Gertrude Stein d) Allen Ginsberg

16. "This war...is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world."

a) V.I. Lenin b) Woodrow Wilson c) Lyndon Johnson d) Adolf Hitler

17. "It was the nation...that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."

a) Winston Churchill b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Juan Peron d) Kemal Ataturk

18. "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it."

a) Fidel Castro b) John F. Kennedy c) Theodore Roosevelt d) Mikhail Gorbachev

19. "We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs... black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history."

a) Marcus Garvey b) W.E.B. Du Bois c) Jesse Jackson d) Martin Luther King Jr.

20. "If I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."

a) Marlon Brando b) Monica Lewinsky c) Annette Funicello d) Marilyn Monroe

21. "A revolution is not a dinner party...or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely.

a) Mao Zedong b) Malcolm X c) Che Guevara d) Imelda Marcos

22. "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

a) Mae West b) Groucho Marx c) Queen Elizabeth II d) Ronald Reagan

23. "Make money, be proud of it; make more money, be prouder of it."

a) John D. Rockefeller b) Henry R. Luce c) Michael Jordan d) Oprah Winfrey

24. "I will not sell miracle cures... I did not see Elvis... The truth is not out there."

a) Janet Reno b) Ross Perot c) Bart Simpson d) Jim Bakker

25. "I fall, I stand still... I trudge on, I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory."

a) Helen Keller b) Sir Edmund Hillary c) Charles Lindbergh d) Anne Frank

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