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Famous Mottos Quiz

We give you the motto. You tell us the nation, state, organization, person, or corporation it belongs to.
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Last updated: August 29, 2018
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First submittedJune 23, 2010
Times taken46,932
Average score47.1%
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Motto
Group
Be Prepared
Boy Scouts
Faster, Higher, Stronger
The Olympics
Just Do It
Nike
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
France
Think Different
Apple
Don't Be Evil
Google
Finger Lickin' Good
KFC
Semper Fidelis
U.S. Marines
I'm Lovin' It
McDonald's
Motto
Group
In God We Trust
United States
Live Free or Die
New Hampshire
Workers of the world, unite!
USSR
Where do you want to go today?
Microsoft
To Protect and to Serve
Los Angeles Police Department
Ordem e progresso 
Brazil
Dieu et mon droit 
United Kingdom
YOLO
Drake
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Level 57
Apr 3, 2013
Can you accept Idiots for YOLO?
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Level 33
Apr 3, 2013
Hi Quizzy, I think we might've said this before... but workers of the world unite was also the motto of the IWW/Wobbles.
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Level 74
Jan 30, 2015
True story.
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Level 82
May 16, 2019
I wonder why the YOLO thing never caught on in India.
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Level 45
Apr 4, 2013
Quiz description should be "to which it belongs"
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Level 22
Jan 1, 2016
Yes! Don't end sentences with prepositions! Grammar is fun.
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Level 70
Jul 31, 2018
That is a rule I can no longer up with put! It's a wonderful thing that 8th grade English teachers aren't the ones composing our cherished literature, poetry, television, speeches, or movies. There comes a point when obeying every "rule" of grammar becomes completely pedantic. It's the type of language that belongs in an unread user's manual.
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Level 76
Nov 8, 2018
Grammarians generally agree that the "don't end sentences with a preposition" rule is pointless and unnecessary. It was created a few hundred years ago when some scholars got it into their heads that English grammar should follow some of the same rules as Latin grammar. In Latin grammar, you couldn't end a sentence with a preposition because they always modified the word following them, and it would make the sentence not make sense. This is also why you're supposedly not allowed to split infinitives, because in Latin infinitives were single words (rather than two words, like "to split") and so couldn't be split.

In short, English isn't Latin, so stop applying Latin rules to English sentences.

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Level 85
Jan 26, 2019
Eight grade teacher agrees
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Level 76
Feb 12, 2019
@MarlowePI I'm very rusty in my latin, but if I remember correctly, word placement doesn't really matter; romans changed the order of words in sentences all the time (very annoying). Declination, rather than position, is what determines the function words play in a sentence.
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Level 64
Apr 10, 2019
@Ferbin - Latin is very flexible, but prepositions always come before their objects. Some words in the phrase might move: "summa cum laude" or "cum summa laude" both make sense, but *"summa laude cum" does not.

And yes, this rule of Latin is the source of the fake "rule" of English where prepositions aren't supposed to go at the end. Ending sentences with prepositions is something that Germanic languages have in common, and it's always been a feature of English.

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Level 79
May 16, 2019
@martay the grammatically correct sentence is 'That is a rule up with which I can no longer put!'
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Level 22
Apr 4, 2013
You should accept bing for microsoft.
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Level 21
Apr 5, 2013
Well, its fair to say i have never heard of "Don't be Evil" !!!!!!! lol! ;)
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Level 48
May 11, 2014
Kind of ironic, in my opinion.
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Level 62
Dec 14, 2017
They think their motto will throw people off their trail as they commit repeated crimes against humanity
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Level 27
Apr 6, 2013
I tried putting "idiots" for YOLO...didn't work for some reason...
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Level 32
Apr 10, 2013
Same. I really think that should be accepted.
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Level 31
Jun 19, 2016
Well Drake does fall into the category anyway... Still I agree with this
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Level 17
Apr 8, 2013
awesome quiz.
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Level 21
Apr 19, 2013
Spent a minute trying to figure out why %1 wasn't Scar from the Lion King...
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Level 31
Jun 19, 2016
Same, apparently the Lion King has had a bigger impact on my life that the 10 years or so I spent as a Scout
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Level 87
Apr 29, 2022
Completely agree. First thing I tried lol
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Level 18
Jun 28, 2013
Since I was in Boy Scouts years ago, "Be Prepared" was the easiest one for me to remember
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Level 66
Jan 26, 2019
yep.
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2014
Don't Be Evil? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Stupid...
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Level 41
Mar 5, 2015
I think there was a campaign called "Google, don't be evil", in protest against Google's agreement to disable approach to certain sites in China. I agree that it is inappropriate to have it here as a motto which "belongs" to Google.
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Level 84
Mar 11, 2015
it' wasn't something assigned to them by the protests; "Don't Be Evil" is Google's long-time motto and the protesters were using that to point out how ridiculous the company's position was.
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Level 82
Mar 27, 2018
it's been the company's unofficial motto forever. The founder's mission sort of mission statement and reminder to themselves that with great power comes great responsibility. Controlling access to information is a great power. It's not stupid at all.
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Level 62
Mar 25, 2014
Really Google: "don't be evil"
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Level 23
Apr 28, 2014
Who else saw 'Be Prepared' and wrote Scar/Lion King?
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Level 45
Aug 6, 2014
... well... ... um... ............................................I'M TAKING THE FIFTH!
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Level 50
Dec 7, 2014
I definitely did, and it should totally be accepted. It IS his motto after all!
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Level 31
Jun 19, 2016
Thought it. Didn't write it
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Level 66
Apr 19, 2018
I totally wrote it
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Level 69
Aug 11, 2014
Apparently, despite other comments, USSR is still the answer... It doesnt make much sense
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Level 74
Jan 30, 2015
I'm glad you accept Scout and Girl Scouts for 'Be Prepared.' But can you make it display Girl/Boy Scouts for the actual answer? It only displays Boy Scouts and that is not correct. Otherwise people will not learn the correct answer. Thanks.
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Level 84
Mar 11, 2015
This quiz got me thinking about the distinction between a motto and a marketing slogan. "I'm Lovin' It" is definitely a slogan and will someday be replaced with something else. McD's certainly doesn't base their organizational philosophy on that phrase. "Where do you want to go today?" is the same for MSFT; definitely just a temporary marketing lead.

"Just Do It" was once just a slogan, but it seems that it's become part of Nike's DNA. Not sure whether that has happened with "Think Different" at Apple, but it's possible.

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Level 68
Apr 9, 2015
Does anybody else miss "E pluribus unum"?
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Level 71
Dec 17, 2015
I do, although I'm not from USA I think 'From Many One' is more meaningful than 'In God we Trust'. Many people have different Gods and many don't trust in any God. And those that profess to believe in God don't always act like it.
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Level 82
Feb 12, 2019
Yes. The original motto was great. The one adopted in the 1950s out of fear in a tribalist panic is ridiculous and goes against many of the most important things upon which the country was founded. It really should be changed back.
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Level 44
Jun 7, 2015
Most of these aren't mottos, they're advertising slogans. Those aren't the same things.
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Level 14
Jun 19, 2015
I kept typing illuminati for in God we trust. *facepalm*
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2016
"I'm on a boat! YOLO!" - Sir Francis Drake, probably
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Level 31
Jun 19, 2016
Anyone else think Scar and Shia LeBouff?
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Level 37
Feb 20, 2018
Strange quiz. Pressed "start quiz", then realized I'd taken it before, so I pressed "give up', and was given partial credit for two answers.
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Level ∞
Feb 20, 2018
Your computer has gremlins.
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Level 66
Jul 7, 2019
lmao quizmaster.

and divantilya that is how it works, once you gave all/some of the answer, you took it again and didnt get/put in any of the answers. So the results show that you got the answers right half of the time. Makes perfect sense

I really wonder what some people think the last column stands for. Like that some of their questions are considered somewhat correct?? (which would be weird, because if taken the quiz multiple times and every time the same correct answer gives you different percentages... (if you have had it wrong atleast once.)

Sorry for the messy sentences. Not feeling well so thinking full senteces that end corresponding to how they begin is hard, even more so in another language.

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Level 12
Mar 9, 2018
haha i only got 3 correct united states and nike, and i though of subway instead of mcdonalds. didn't even know google had a motto
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Level 82
Mar 27, 2018
"In God We Trust" is such a sad, pathetic downgrade from the real and original motto of the United States: e plurubus unum. Product of a really embarrassing chapter in US history, changed for some really poor reasons, and it ought to be changed back.
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Level 65
Jun 1, 2018
You might want to change the google one

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393

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Level 55
Jun 15, 2018
Quizmaster, please change the displayed answer for ‘Be Prepared’ from ‘boy scouts’ to ‘scouts’. The name of the organisation is Scouts. Because girls AND boys can join Scouts. I was in the Scouts, and I’m a girl. Your displayed answer is wrong and needs fixing!!
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Level 82
Feb 9, 2019
Transnistria should be accepted :)
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Level 84
May 16, 2019
Only 12% guessed Microsoft? What a failure of a marketing campaign!
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Level 82
May 16, 2019
that one sounded super familiar to me. I was first guessing credit card companies, then trying courier services, then airlines... couldn't place it. But Microsoft makes some sense. I did think of search engines but I had already guessed Google. Bing has been erased from my memory.
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Level 71
Mar 12, 2021
Same. I got Google by accident trying to answer this one and then tried Mastercard and Visa and a couple of airlines. I knew I had heard it
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Level 48
Jul 18, 2019
Haiti should also be accepted for "Liberté, égalité, fraternité". It is their National Motto as well.
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Level 67
Sep 10, 2021
Imagine thinking that Google used to be against evil.
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Level 87
Nov 7, 2021
Great quiz
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Level 71
Jan 9, 2023
After reading #1, all I could think of was the Lion King and now that song is stuck in my head