*Quotation Quotient
(Published September 8, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
A. Harry S. Truman
B. Boris Yeltsin
C. Milton Friedman
2. “And in the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be found that truth is still mightier than the sword.”
A. J.R.R. Tolkien
B. Gen. Douglas MacArthur
C. Frank Zappa
3. “For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”
A. Rachel Carson
B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
A. Oprah Winfrey
B. Lisa Lampanelli
C. Baruch Spinoza
5. “Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.”
A. Truman Capote
B. Stephen King
C. Newt Gingrich
6. “A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
A. Booker T. Washington
B. Denzel Washington
C. George Washington
7. “Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.”
A. Lena Horne
B. Carroll O’Connor
C. Benjamin Franklin
8. “I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
A. Harry Potter
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Rodney Dangerfield
9. “All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
A. James Franco
B. James Taylor
C. James Joyce
10. “If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly.”
A. John Steinbeck
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Sen. Ted Cruz
Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 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
BONUS QUOTE:
“Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”– Georges Braque
(Braque, 1882-1963, a French painter and scultptor, helped develop Cubism.)
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