*Quotation Quotient
(Published March 9, 2014 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Pink
C. Margaret Mitchell
2. “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B. Mario Cuomo
C. Richard Nixon
3. “Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.”
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Jimmy Fallon
C. Salvador Dali
4. “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
A. Jack Kerouac
B. Willard Scott
C. Bob Dylan
5. “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
A. Earvin “Magic” Johnson
B. Lyndon Johnson
C. Samuel Johnson
6. “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Nat King Cole
C. Calvin Coolidge
7. “Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.”
A. John Wooden
B. Knute Rockne
C. Charlie Chaplin
8. “[It is] forbidden to ever make peace with a monarch, a prince or a people who have not submitted.”
A. Genghis Khan
B. Robert E. Lee
C. Barack Obama
9. “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.”
A. Natalie Wood
B. William McKinley
C. Princess Diana
10. “Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Aldous Huxley
C. Ellen DeGeneres
Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-A , 9-A , 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
BONUS QUOTE:
“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”
– Joseph Addison
(Addison, 1672-1719, was an English politician and writer.)
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