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Published May 22, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)
1. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
A. T. Boone Pickens
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. G. Gordon Liddy
2. “Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”
A. James Bond
B. James Dean
C. James Baldwin
3. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
A. Alexander Pope
B. Malcolm X
C. Bob Hope
4. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
A. Mark Twain
B. Lady Godiva
C. Harry S. Truman
5. “The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. “
A. Thomas Edison
B. Ralph Kramden
C. George Bernard Shaw
6. “The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she’s there, but nobody wants to talk about her.”
A. W. Somerset Maugham
B. H. Ross Perot
C. L. Frank Baum
7. “My husband’s German. Every night I get dressed up as Poland and he invades me.”
A. Bette Midler
B. Eleanor Roosevelt
C. Megyn Kelly
8. “I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts… It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind.”
A. Duke Snider
B. Henrik Ibsen
C. Jimmy Fallon
9. “I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
A. Oscar de la Renta
B. Oscar Pistorius
C. Oscar Wilde
10. “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
A. J.K. Rowling
B. H. L. Mencken
C. E. B. White
Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-A , 4-A , 5-C , 6-B , 7-A , 8-B , 9-C , 10-B
Scoring: 10–QQQQ = Quote-Master
(number correct) 8-9–QQQ = Scholar
6-7–QQ = Literate
4-5–Q = Semi-Literate
0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce
“Life is complicated. It starts before we’re ready, it continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.”
― Adrian Tan, b. 1966, is a lawyer and author from Singapore.
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Published May 15, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)
1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
A. Jimmy Carter
B. J. Edgar Hoover
C. Albert Einstein
2. “If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.”
A. Voltaire
B. Dana Scully
C. Rick Warren
3. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Neil Patrick Harris
C. John Wilkes Booth
4. “I believe that children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.”
A. Bob Dylan
B. Whitney Houston
C. Kim Jong-un
5. “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
A. George Stephanopoulos
B. Donald Trump
C. Mahatma Gandhi
6. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
A. George W. Bush
B. Vladimir Lenin
C. Bing Crosby
7. “I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil.”
A. Douglas Adams
B. Douglas MacArthur
C. Douglas Fairbanks
8. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
A. Aristotle
B. Eminem
C. Pelé
9. “The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.”
A. Angela Merkel
B. Princess Diane
C. Phyllis Diller
10. “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”
A. Lewis Carroll
B. Reince Priebus
C. Robert De Niro
Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6- B, 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 10-A
Scoring: 10–QQQQ = Quote-Master
(number correct) 8-9–QQQ = Scholar
6-7–QQ = Literate
4-5–Q = Semi-Literate
0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
–A. J. Liebling, 1904-1963, an American journalist, wrote frequently for the New Yorker.
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