*Quotation Quotient
(Published December 29, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”
A. Billy Graham
B. Anaïs Nin
C. Neil Armstrong
2. “Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy, she’ll beat you if she’s able. You know, the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet.”
A. The Eagles
B. The Byrds
C. The Yardbirds
3. ”Being president is like running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.’‘
A. Bill Clinton
B. Ronald Reagan
C. John Quincy Adams
4. “Damn with faint praise.”
A. John Steinbeck
B. Charles Lindbergh
C. Alexander Pope
5. “A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars.”
A. Stephen Hawking
B. Carl Sagan
C. Andy Griffith
6. “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
A. Voltaire
B. Betsy Ross
C. Felix Mendelssohn
7. “People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”
A. Grover Cleveland
B. George Washington
C. Richard Nixon
8. “Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn’t know what to do with himself–he go to church, start a revolution–something. Today you’re unhappy? Can’t figure it out?–what is the salvation?–go shopping.”
A. Arthur Miller
B. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
C. Arthur C. Clarke
9. “I found that all through the years you never appreciate anything if you get it in a hurry.”
A. Alan Greenspan
B. Joseph Stalin
C. Ella Fitzgerald
10. “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.”
A. Ellen Goodman
B. Ellen DeGeneres
C. Ellen Page
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-C , 5-B , 6-A , 7-C , 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
BONUS QUOTE:
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” ― Aberjhani
(Aberjhani, b. 1957, is an American historian, journalist, novelist, poet and editor).
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