About Quote Arena
Thirteen competitions on the world’s quotations and Latin phrases. Pick who said a line from eight speakers, type the speaker’s name, choose the work it comes from or the year it was said, fill the missing word of a famous line, tell genuine quotations from famous misattributions, match lines to speakers, or uncover a whole hidden quotation letter by letter in Quote Hangman.
Every quotation comes from a sourced section of the speaker’s English Wikiquote page, with nearly six thousand speakers from antiquity to today; 1,165 misattributions come from Wikiquote’s own Misattributed sections, with the note on the real source. The Latin competitions use Wikipedia’s lists of Latin phrases. Sources as of 2025.
How to play
- Goal
- Know the world’s quotations and Latin phrases: who said them, where and when, and what they mean.
- How it ends
- Finish ten questions, eight pairs or three hidden quotations, exhaust the sprint clock, or make one sprint mistake.
- Record
- Best score, highest year reserve, fewest wrong letters or fastest matching finish, with time and the player’s name.
- Who Said It: a quotation and eight speakers; 90 seconds from the first question; one wrong answer ends the run. Most correct answers wins; time breaks ties.
- Author Search: ten quotations; type any part of the speaker’s name, ignoring accents and small slips, and choose from the list.
- Source Work and Year Said: ten quotations each; pick the work out of eight, or type the year. Year Said starts with 1,000 reserve; each year off costs one point, at most 100.
- Finish the Line: a famous quotation with one word blanked; pick it from eight.
- Quote Hangman: three hidden quotations, speaker and work shown. Right letters are free and fill every place they occur; fewest wrong letters wins, time breaks ties. Letter Hunt does the same with five hidden speaker names.
- Real or Misattributed: ten claims “X said …”; decide whether the line is genuine or one Wikiquote lists as misattributed.
- Matching: pair eight quotations with their speakers; each wrong pair adds three seconds.
- Latin: Meaning Sprint (Latin to English, 90 seconds, one mistake ends), English to Latin, Latin Letter Hunt and Latin Matching.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Tap / click | Choose answers and matching pairs; double-click or double-tap an answer to confirm it at once |
| Drag | Drag either side of the Matching table onto its partner |
| Type a name | Filter speakers in Author Search; Enter chooses a unique result |
| Letters | Guess letters in Quote Hangman and the Letter Hunts |
| Year | Enter a whole year; a number pad supports controllers |
| 1–8 | Choose an answer |
| Enter / Space | Continue from a reveal |
| Standard controller | D-pad navigates controls, left and right jump between initials in the speaker list; A selects, B goes back, Y opens Rules, Start opens Settings |
Tips
- Read the voice Aphorism, scripture, speech and stage line each sound different; the eight speakers share a trade, so style decides.
- Vowels first In Quote Hangman E, T, A and O fill the most places; short words like THE and AND then fall quickly.
- Doubt the too-perfect line A neat, quotable maxim pinned on a very famous name is often the misattribution.
Good to know
Every reveal links the speaker’s Wikiquote page. Source links are free to open once a question is answered; leaving the tab or restoring an unfinished run makes that attempt practice. Years are those the citation states. Sources as of 2025.
Watch how to play
Questions
Where do the quotations come from?
English Wikiquote, sourced sections only: a quotation needs a citation or a work heading. Disputed, unsourced and song lyrics are left out; misattributed lines play only in Real or Misattributed.
Why are some famous people missing?
Speakers known mainly for genocide, terror, serial murder or cult leadership are left out, and lines that are hateful or are notes rather than quotations are removed.
Which quotations are famous?
Those Wikiquote shows as a page’s image caption or in bold, its own convention for a person’s best-known lines.
