Statistics for Historical Misquotes

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General Stats

  • This quiz has been taken 24,596 times
    (10,197 since last reset)
  • The average score is 11 of 20

Answer Stats

QuoteNationalityPerson% Correct
Let them eat cakeFrenchMarie Antoinette
96%
Et tu, Brute?RomanJulius Caesar
85%
Elementary, my dear WatsonBritishArthur Conan Doyle
83%
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blindIndianMahatma Gandhi
79%
I cannot tell a lieAmericanGeorge Washington
77%
Religion is the opiate of the massesGermanKarl Marx
61%
I am a jelly doughnutAmericanJohn F. Kennedy
55%
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people
all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time
AmericanAbraham Lincoln
54%
I can see Russia from my houseAmericanSarah Palin
53%
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy, and the lashEnglishWinston Churchill
53%
The British are coming! The British are coming!AmericanPaul Revere
50%
Anything that can go wrong, willAmericanEdward Murphy
46%
The price of liberty is eternal vigilanceAmericanThomas Jefferson
44%
The ends justify the meansItalianNiccolo Machiavelli
41%
I invented the internetAmericanAl Gore
38%
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunchAmericanBen Franklin
38%
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say it
FrenchVoltaire
37%
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of EtonAnglo-IrishDuke of Wellington
29%
There's a sucker born every minuteAmericanP.T. Barnum
27%
Golf is a good walk spoiledAmericanMark Twain
26%

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