*Quotation Quotient
(Published May 26, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
A. Mark Zuckerberg
B. Mark Twain
C. Mark Cuban
2. “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
A. Sandra Day O’Conner
B. Richard Dreyfuss
C. Gloria Steinem
3. “There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.”
A. Anwar Sadat
B. Marcia Brady
C. Abraham Lincoln
4. “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
A. Jim Morrison
B. Seth Meyers
C. Ogden Nash
5. “Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
A. Jon Stewart
B. Norman Vincent Peale
C. Joe Biden
6. “I hold it true, whate’er befall;/ I feel it, when I sorrow most;/ Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.”
A. Horatio Alger
B. Laura Ingalls Wilder
C. Alfred Tennyson
7. “I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.”
A. Henny Youngman
B. Arnold Schwarzenegger
C. Jay Leno
8. “There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
A. Susan Sarandon
B. Susan B. Anthony
C. Susan Boyle
9. “Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”
A. Bruce Springsteen
B. Henry Ward Beecher
C. L. Frank Baum
10. “This is the short and the long of it.”
A. Herman Melville
B. Randy Newman
C. William Shakespeare
Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-A , 4-C , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-B , 10-C
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
BONUS QUOTE:
“There are some things that should never be mentioned in polite society – f’r instance, the doings of Polite Society.” – Elbert Hubbard
(Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher. He died aboard the Lusitania during WWI.)
